DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA, Verbena. 
E. bot. 137—Blackw. 455-Fl. dan 580-—Kniph. §-Dod. 90- 
Lob. obs. 270. Ny and ic. 1. 51}. 1-Ger. ems 682. 1=Pet. 
32. 1-Matth. 719—-Lonic. i. 112. 1—Riv. mon. 52, Ne» 
peta-Trag. 15. 1—Ger, 554. 1-H. ox. xi. 6. row 2.3. 
Leaves of a velvet-like Sheen sabe mostly turned to one 
side of the stem. Calyx owny, W ith g haere Bloss. white, 
wards, and set with a tuft of white bristles at the base. Stamens 
ahee “ee than upper lip. Stem and /eaves white with down. 
Nep. mint. Pastures and hedges in a calcareous soil. 
Cie Banga, “Saffolk. Woopwarp. oe act ts. Mr. Swayne. 
e beach at Rampside, urness. Mr. Arxinson.— 
Dudley Caste, Needwood F shes Staffordsh. ] P. Jaly.* 
VERBE‘NA. Bloss. funnel-shaped, segments near- 
Ty equal: calyx one of its teeth lopped : seeds 
2 or 4; naked. 
509 
V. Spikes thread-shaped, panicled : leave. with many officina’lis, 
efis : stem 
E. bot. 767—Ludw. 149-Curt. —Kniph. 4~Riv. mon. 56-Ver- 
bena—Woodv. 218—Wale.—Clus. ii, 45. 2-Ded. 150. 1= 
Lob. obs. 289. 2; and ic, is 534. 2-Ger. em.7 18. 1—Park. 
675. 1-F/. dan. 628-—Blackw. 41-Trag. 210-Matth. 
1052 see 580. 1-Fuchs. 593~F. B. iii. 443-Lonic. i, 
138 
ids tae deeply lobed, and jagged, the “fais 3.cleft, or 
simple. Woopwarp. Stem nearly 4-co A pm Flowering branches 
with 2 lips, the upper cloven into 2, the lower into 3 nearly 
equal segments ; purplish. Stamens 4, 2 of them longer. Seeds 
Res English botanist to look for it in this class, though Linnzus 
has placed i it in the class Diandria, because the greater number 
of species have only 2 stamens. 
may be ee for adose. Cats are so de- 
iti is chloe om ‘evils 3 and, in cuppett of this opinion, quotes an old say- 
ing, ‘* If you set it, road ee will eat it; if you sow os the cats will not 
know it.’? It cannot well be planted Sakon t being more or less bruised. 
St.—-Sheep eat it. nea horses, goats, and swine sat ae gh 
