Verbena. VERBENACE.E. 337 



ccediiig tlic flowers, tlie uppermost ovate-lanceolate and only equalling tlieni : corolla 

 bluish (about 2 lines long): nutlets witli a narrower almost smooth commissure. — HBK. 

 Nov. Gen. & Si)ec. ii. 274, t. VMS. V. yrari/is, Desf. Cat. ed. 3, 39.]. V. reinnta, Bentii. 

 Ilartw. 21. V. Rmneriana, Sclieele in Limi. xxi. 7-35? — Dry open grounds, W. Te.xas to 

 S. California.' (Mex.) 



Var. Neo-Mexicana. Stems rather strict and slender: leaves bipinnately cleft or 

 almost parted; bracts not longer than the cal3'x. — I', officinalis, var. /iirsuta, Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 28. — Borders of thickets near theCoppermines, New Mexico, Wn'g/if, Bujeloio. 

 Appears as if a hybrid between V. canescens and V. officinalis. S. Arizona, similar in foliage 

 but with long bracts, Rolluock. 



§ 2. Flowers more showy, at first depressed-capitate, becoming spicate in fruit : 

 anthers of the longer stamens appendaged by a gland on the connective : tube of 

 corolla at the upper part lined with reflexed bristly hairs, especially the anterior 

 side : anther-cells slightly oblique or unequal. — Glandularia, Gmelin, Nutt. 

 Billardiera., Moench. Sliuttlewortlda, Meissner. Uwarowia, Bunge. 



* Glaml of the anthers small and short, sonietiiiics iiicoiis|)iciious, on tliu middle of tiie back: 

 mainly lilirous-rooted perennials; but heedlinics flowering as annuals: nutlets reticulate-rugulose, 

 mostly scabrous on the commissure. Species dilHcult to distinguish, ajiparently j)assing into 

 each other. 



V. ciliata, Benth. Low or depressed, hirsute-pubescent or hispid, O to 10 inclies high, 

 diffusely spreading from an apparently annual root ; the branches not creeping nor rooting 

 at base : leaves once or twice o-clef t or parted and variously incisely lobed, to 12 lines 

 long, with cuneate base contracted into a margined petiole ; lobes from linear to oblong : 

 spikes short-pedunclcd or sessile, dense, at most oblong: fructiferous calyx oblong, 2i or 3 

 lines long, with short subulate teeth : limb of the purple or bluish corolla 2 to 4 lines 

 broad: glantl of the anthers usually very small. — PI. llartw. 21 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 553; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1.008. — Dry plains, W. Texas to Arizona and the southern 

 border of California. (Mex.) 



V. bipinnatifida, Nutt. A span to a foot high, hispid hirsute, perennial, rooting froni 

 subterranean brandies ; leaves (H to 4 Indies long), bipinnately parted, or 3-parted into 

 more or less bipinnatifid divisions; the lobes commonly linear or rather broader: spikes 

 in ago elongated, bracts setaceous-attenuate, mostly surpassing the calyx; teeth of the 

 latter slender, subulate-setaceous from a broader base, unequal : limb of the bluish-pur- 

 ple or lilac corolla 4 or 5 lines broad ; lobes obcordate : nutlets at maturity usually 

 retrorsely muriculate-scabrous or hispidulous on the commissure. — Jour. Acad. Wiilad. ii. 

 123; Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 233; Sdiauer in DC. 1. c. 553. Ghindularia bipinnatifida, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soo. n. ser. v. 184. — Plains and prairies, Arkansas and Texas to 

 the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, &c. Cult, as " V. monlana." 



V. Aubletia, L. A foot or less high, branching and ascending from a creeping or root- 

 ing base, i)erennial (as rightly said by Jaequin), slender, soft-pul'cscent, hirsute, or gia- 

 brate: leaves (1 or 2 indies long) ovate or ovate-oblong in outline, with truncate or broadly 

 cuneate base tapering into a margined petiole, incisely lobcd and toothed, often more deeply 

 3-cleft: spikes pedunculate, elongated in fruit: bracts subulate or linear-attenuate, shorter 

 than or equalling the similar slender and unequal teeth of the narrow calyx : limb of the 

 reddish-purple or lilac (rarely wliite) corolla half or two-thirds incdi broad: commissure of 

 the nutlets minutely white-dotted or nearly smooth. — Jacq. Vind. ii. 82, 1. 17(); L. f. Suppi. 

 80; Bot. Mag. t. 308; Miehx. Fl. ii. 13; Bot. Keg. t. 204, 1. 1025 (var. Dnimmondi) ; Sdiauer 

 in DC. 1. c. 554. V. Oblr^lia, Retz. V. lowjijlora. Lam. Bnchnera Canadensis, L. Mant. 88. 

 Glandularia Carolinrnsis, Gmel. IJdlardicra explanata, Mccncli. V. La nilierli, ^'ims, Hot. Mag. 

 t. 2200; Schauer, i.e.; form with narrower and more incised leaves. V. Lainherii, var. 

 rosea, Don, Brit Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 303, with large and ligiit-colored corolla (three-fourths 

 inch wide, fragrant). — Open woods and prairies, Florida to Illinois, Arkansas, and New 

 Mexico. (Mex.) Cult., variously mixed. 



* * Gland of the anthers oval, as high and almost as large as one of the cells: stem erect from an 

 annual root. 



v. "Wrightii. Ilispidulous-pubcscent: stem simple below, 2 feet higli : leaves pinnatoly 

 ;]_7.parted or deeply cleft, contracted at base into a margined petiole; lobes mostly ian- 



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