242 , VERVAIN FAMILY. 



row lanceolate, sessUe, roughish, slightly toothed ; spikes few, thickish, crowded 

 with purple flowers. 



V. stricta, Hoary V, Barrens W. & S. : whitish-hairy, l°-2° high; 

 leaves obovate or oblong, serrate, sessile ; spikes thick and dense ; flowers blue, 

 larger than in the others. 



V. hastata. Blue V. Stem 4° - 6° high ; leaves lance-oblong, some of 

 the larger with short side lobes at base, cut-serrate, petioled ; spikes densely- 

 flowered, coryrabed or panicled ; flowers blue. 



V. urticifblia, Nettle-leaved or White V. Stem 4° -6° high; 

 leaves oval or oblong-ovate, coarsely serrate, petioled ; spikes of small white 

 flowers slender and loose. 



V. ofiBLcin^lis, European V. Nat. by roadsides, at least S. Stems 

 l°-3° high, branched; leaves sessile, 3-cleft and mostly pinnatifid into narrow 

 cut-toothed lobes ; small purplish flowers in very slender panicled spikes. 



V. bractebsa. From Wisconsin S. ; hairy, spreading or procumbent ; 

 leaves wedge-shaped or lance-oblong, cut-pinnatifid or 3-cleft, short-petioled ; 

 small purple flowers in solitary loose spikes, the lower ones leafy-bracted. 



§ 2. Verbenas of the garden sort, with creeping or spreading stems, and dense 

 spikes of larger or showy flowers : anthers of the long^ stamens with a 

 gland-like tip. 2/ ® 



V. Aubldtia. Wild from 111. and Carolina W. & S. : has cut-pinnatifid 

 leaves, and a long-peduncled spike of purple flowers, minutely bearded in the 

 throat. — This and the several following species ft'om South Brazil, Buenos 

 Ay res, &c., variously and greatly mixed, make up the Verbenas which adorn 

 our gardens in summer. 



V. chamsedrifolia, the original Scarlet V., with oblong-lanceolate 

 coarsely serrate leaves, nearly all sessile, and most intense red or scarlet flowers, 

 in a flat cluster. 



V. phlogiflbra, also named TweediXna. More upright; the leaves 

 decidedly petioled ; the flowers inclined to form an oblong spike, and crimson, 

 varying to rose, but not to scarlet. 



V . inclsa, differs from the last in the pinnatifid-incised leaves, the petioled 

 ones with a heart-shaped base ; flowers in a flat cluster, rose-color or purple. 



V. teucroid.es. Erect or spreading, with ovate-oblong and incised sessile 

 leaves, and a lengthened spike of white or pale rosy flowers, sweet-scented, 

 especially at nightfall. 



V. erinoides, or multifida. Dwarf and much creeping, rough-hairy, 

 with leaves pinnatifid into linear divisions, and originally with violet purple 

 flowers, and 



V. pulch.611a or t6nera, with equally finely cut leaves, and rather larger 

 originally rose-violet flowers, are part parents of the smaller races. 



3. LIPPIA. (Named for ^. Z(/jjD«, an Italian botanist.) Fl. late summer. 



L. lanceolata. Fog-fruit. A creeping weedy herb, along river-banks 

 from Penn. S. & W., with wedge-spatulate or oblanceolate leaves serrate above 

 the middle, and slender peduncles from the axils bearing a head of bluish 

 small flowers. 



Ij. citrioddra (or Aloysia), the Lemon-scented or Sweet Verbena 

 of the gardens ; shrub from Chili, with whorls of linear-lanceolate fragrant 

 leaves, roughish with glandular dots, and small whitish and bluish flowers in 

 slender spikes. 



4. L ANT AN A. (Origin of name obscure.) Tropical or subtropical, 

 mostly shrubby plants, planted out in summer, when they flower freely until 

 frost comes ; stems often rough-prickly ; herbage and flowers odorous, in 

 some pleasant, others not so. The species are much mixed. 



L. C^mara, from Tropical America, has flowers deep yellow, turning first 

 to orange, then to red. 



L. mixta, from Brazil, has flowers opening white, soon changing to yel- 

 low, orange, and finally to red. 



