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40. \ KHHKNACE.E. 



Stachys arvensis. 



calyx villous, becoming purple 

 in truit. with long, lanceolate, 

 ciliate teeth : corolla .scarcely 

 exceeding calyx, the lips short : 

 carpels obovoid, tubovcnlate 

 lUKlor the leii.s. 



Roadsides, pastures, cultivated 

 land. — Almost all the year. — 

 Europe : western Asia. 



•2. S. Iana.ta, Jacq. Stout, 

 erect, perennial, covered with 

 a soft, thick, wl^ite wool; leaves 

 oval-oblong, acute, stalked, min- 

 utely crenate : flowers purple, 

 numerous in each whorl ; calyx 

 wtwUy, with short triangular 

 teeth ; upper lip of corolla very 

 woolly outside, the tube as long 

 as the calyx. 



Roadsides near IMyponga ; a 

 garden escape. — Nov. - Jan. -— 

 Eastern Etirope; western Asia. 



Family 40.- VERBENACE/E. 



Flowers and quadrangular stems as in Lahiata, except 

 that the ovary is simple, not lobed, and the corolla less 

 nuirkedly 2-lipped : fruit enclosed in the persistant calyx, 

 with 1 seed in each cell : leave.< opposite. 



1. Vkrben.v, L. 



Stamens enclosed in the corolla tube: 

 carx)els, .separating at maturity. 



Poreiiiiial ; leaves narrow, toothed. 



Corolla-tube sliirhtly exceeding calyx 



Corolla-tube 3 times as long as calyx 

 Annual : loaves liroarl. (loo]ily lobcd 



1. Verbena, bonariensis, 



hairy, herbaceous perennial, with 



stems; leaves linear, ses.sile. .stem-clasping, sharply tfiothed 

 in the upper half; flowers small, blui,sh. in den.se. terminal 

 spikes on long peduncles, forming a trichotomous panicle; 

 liract^s lanceolate, ciliate, equalling or slightly exceeding 

 the calyx, which has •'> lanceolate teeth: corolla shortly vil- 

 lous outside, the tube a little longer than the calyx, with 

 o blunt, subeqnal. sprc^ading lobes; carpels subcylindrical, 

 .smooth on the back, white-tuberculate on the face. 



Roadsides and pastures in Mount Lofty Range. Dec- 

 Fcb. — Temperate South America. The specific name means 

 "of Buenos Aires.'' 



2. V. venosa, Gillies and Hooker. A smaller plant 

 than the preceding, rough-hairy, with slender, ascending 



fruit dry, of 4 



