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VERBENACEAE 



6. V. robusta Greeue. Stem strictly erect, paniculately branched above, 2 to 

 2% feet high; herbage hispidulose ; leaf -blades ovate in outline, irregularly incised 

 or cleft (but commonly not divided), 1 to 1% inches long, rather abruptly and 

 shortly petioled ; spikes dense, 1 to 3 inches long, 3 lines broad, disposed in a compact 

 panicle, the panicle a little bracteate-leafy below; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, as 

 long as calyx ; corolla 2^/^ to 3 lines long, its limb 1 line broad, its tube hairy inside; 

 commissure of nutlets densely set with minute erect cylindric processes. 



Dry hills or flats, 25 to 1000 feet : Coast Ranges from Solano and Sonoma Cos. to 

 San Luis Obispo Co. ; coastal Southern California. South to Lower California. 

 July-Oct. 



Loc3. — Coast Eanges: Sweeney Creek, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 20,250; Kenwood, Sonoma Co., 

 Davy 865; Tiburon, Marin Co., Jepson 21,230; Wildcat Canon, Berkeley Hills, Eoht. Brandt; 



Leona, Oakland Hills, Michener 4" Bioletti; Coyote HUls, sw. 

 Alameda Co., Jepson 12,935 ; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo 

 Co., Elmer 4950 ; Mustang Ridge, near Priest Valley, se. Mon- 

 terey Co., Belshaw 2731 ; San Luis Obispo, Condit. Coastal 

 S. Cal.: Santa Cruz Isl., Thacher ; Santa Catalina Isl., Tou- 

 rney; San Clemente Isl., Murbarger 218; Flinn Sprs., San 

 Diego Co., Epling. 



Kefs.— Verbena robusta Greene, Pitt. 3:309 (1898), 

 type loc. Pt. Isabel, Berkeley, Greene; Jepson, Man. 859 

 (1925). 



7. V. bracteata Lag. & Rodr. Stems several 

 from base, branching, ascending or diffuse, 3 to 15 

 inches long; herbage hispid and hispidulose; leaf- 

 blades obovate or oblong, pinnately incised or 

 coarsely serrate, 1/2 to 1 inch long, narrowed at base 

 into a cuneately winged petiole i a to i/o as long ; 

 spikes commonly dense, 1 to 2 (or 5) inches long; 

 bracts lanceolate, carinate-ribbed, rigid, exceeding 

 the flowers; corolla blue, Yo line wide, the anthers 

 unequally inserted in pairs in upper part of tube, 

 subsessile ; commissural faces of nutlets densely set 

 with strongly bulbous strigiUae, the strigillae un- 

 equal, acute. 



Open hills and flats, 50 to 4000 feet : Inyo Co. ; 

 San Joaquin Valley; inner South Coast Range; western Mohave Desert; coastal 

 Southern California ; Colorado Desert. North to British Columbia, east to Maine 

 and Florida, south to northern Mexico. June-Sept. 



Logs. — Inyo Co.: Lone Pine (Contrib. TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 4:174). San Joaquin Valley: Lathrop, 

 K. Brandegee ; San Joaquin City, Jepson 10,285; near Mountain View School (15 mi. s. of Mo- 

 desto), Hoover 94; near Deadmans Creek, n. of El Nido, Merced Co., Jepson 17,484; Lost HUls 

 (5 mi. n.), Kern Co., Hoover 2C67. Inner South Coast Range: Grant Lake, Palo Prieto Pass, 

 Jepson 15,888. Western Mohave Desert: Bissell sta., E. Brandegee. Coastal S. CaL: Bixby, 

 near Los Angeles, K. Brandegee ; San Bernardino, Parish. Colorado Desert: Cameron Lake, 

 T. Brandegee. 



Eefs. — Verbena BRACTiliTA Lag. & Rodr., Anales Cienc. Nat. 4:260 (1801), based on a plant 

 cult, in Bot. Gard. Madrid. V. bracleosa Michx., Fl. 2:13 (1803), type loc. "in regione Illi- 

 noensi"; Jepson, Man. 859 (1925). 



8. V. bipinnatifida Nutt. var. gooddingii (Briq.) Jepson comb. n. Stems sev- 

 eral from the base, a.scending, 5 to 15 inches long; herbage spreading-hirsute ; 

 leaf -blades roundish in outline, Yo to ly^ inches long, palmately 3-parted with the 

 divisions pinnately cleft into oblong lobes; petioles i/o to as long; spikes short or 

 capitate, dense, i/o to IV^ inches long; bracts usually rather shorter than calyx; 

 calyx-teeth obtuse, becoming tightly plicate about tlie prominent midrib so as to 

 appear acute-subulate; corolla light blue, 3 to 5 lines broad, its lobes usually 

 obeordate ; stamens in pairs, 2 on short filaments at base of throat, 2 on longer fila- 



Fig. 420. 

 CHYS Link 

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Verbena lasiosta- 

 a, spike; 6, leai. 



