﻿618 Small : Botany of Southeastern United States 



In sandy soil, Indian Territory to Louisiana and Texas. 



Spring and summer. 



Verbena Halei has the general habits of Verbena officinalis 

 but diners from that species in both the leaves and inflorescence. 

 The lower leaf-blades are usually less deeply lobed, often merely 

 coarsely toothed, while the upper leaves or leaf-segments are con- 

 spicuously elongated and nearly entire or remotely toothed. The 

 corollas are twice the size of those of Verbena officinalis and the 

 narrow fruit often fully twice the length of that of the eastern 

 relative. The following specimens belong here : 



Louisiana: Dr. Hale, no. 245. 



Texas: San Diego, 1885-86, Miss Croft, no. 119; Corpus 



Christi, 1894, Mr. Heller, no. 141 9. 



Indian Territory: Between Fort Cobb and Fort Arbuckle, 



1868. Dr. Palmer, no. 2/12. 



Gerardia polyphylla. 



Annual, smooth and glabrous or nearly so. Stems erect, 1-4 

 dm. tall, bushy ; branches wire-like, ascending : leaves opposite, nu- 

 merous ; blades linear filiform or setaceous, 1—2.5 cm. long, acute, 

 straight or somewhat curved, slightly revolute : pedicels filiform, 

 spreading, 1-2 cm. long, surpassed by the leaves : calices 2-3 

 mm. ; tubes turbinate ; teeth triangular-subulate, one fourth as 

 long as tube : corollas pink or pink-purple, less than 1 cm. long. 



In sandy soil, Little Stone Mountain, Georgia. Summer and 

 fall. 



The species of Gerardia just described is related to Gerardia 

 setacea Walt., but it is more delicate and all its members are smaller. 

 All the plants that I have seen are conspicuously much branched 

 and the small corollas and the large calyx-teeth which are fully 

 one fourth as long as the turbinate tube easily separate the species 

 from any forms of Gerardia setacea with which I am acquainted. 



The original specimens were collected by the writer on Little 

 Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia, in September, 1895- 

 Specimens which without much doubt will have to be referred here 

 have now been brought in by Mr. Heller from the vicinity of Tex- 

 arkana, Arkansas, no. 4219. These are almost identical with tne 

 Georgia plants. 



