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Verbena ' Folio fubrotundo ferrato, Jlore caruleo. Sic. Cat. 60. 

 f Verbena Scutellaria five cajfida Jolio, &c. " Pk. t. 70. f. 1. 



The larger erect Vervine. 



This plant has been commonly confounded with the following fp 



which it is eafily diftinguifhed by its growth and appearance 



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vided into a great number of branches, and generally rifes from 

 more, above the root. 



*cies, from 

 commonly di- 

 to two feet, or 



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VERBENA 2. Procumbens ramofa, foliis major i bus, fpicis hngiffimis 



lateralibus. 

 Verbena Diandra, fpicis hngiffimis carnofis fubnudis, L. Sp. PI. 





The reclining branched Vervine. 



4. 



This plant grows in a fupine pofition, and is commonly furnimed with a few fimple 



branches, which, like the main Hem, terminate in a long flower-fpike, and are fur- 

 nimed with pretty large and fucculent leaves: the whole plant is kept in moil of the 

 mops of America, where it is much in ufe among the poorer fort of people ; its juice 

 is a ftrong purgative, the infufion diaphoretic and laxative, and the decoction aperi- 

 tive and diobftruent. A decoction of this plant and the Mentajlrum is efteemed a 

 fpecific in dropfies. See Shanes, &c. 



VERBENA 3. Nodiflora repens foliis ob-ovatis fuperne crenatis, pedun 



culis long is folitariis, fori bus co?iglobatis. 



Verbena rfetrandra, fpicis capitato-conicis, Joliis Jerratis, caule repenti 



L. Sp. PI. ' 



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The round-leaPd creeping Vervine. 



This plant is very common in the low moift lands of Jamaica : it is eafily known 

 by its obtufe crenated leaves, and round-headed fpikes. 



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VERBENA 







4 . Subfruticoja reclinata, foliis anguftis ferrato-dentatis, pe- 



dunculis longis folitariis, fori bus conglobatis. T. 3. f. 1 

 Verbena Diandra, fpicis ovatis, foliis lanceolatis ferratis, caule fruticofc 



&c 



L. Sp. PI 



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The larger reclining Vervine with narrow leaves. 



This plant grows about the Ferry and lower lands of St. Katherines 5 

 nual or triannual, and ftretches by a flender lignous ftalk to the length of about live 

 or fix feet from the root : it grows in a rich and moift foyl, and is furnimed with 



mber of oblong ferrated and veined leaves that are adorned with a fine 



If I remember right, there is a figure of it in Pluck. The flow- 



down underneath 



difpofed in the fame manner as they are in the foregoing 



VERBENA 



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dato-ovatis, foribus fp 



calicibus 





Verben 



Diandra calicib 



feminibus echinatis 



nflatis 



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fubrotundis ereftiufculis feminibus echinatis 



Blairia Houft. & Scorodonia, &c 



An* Hefba 



Mart. 453 



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The ftiptic or velvet Bur 



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