NOVITATES TEXANA. 135 
VERBENA PLICATA. Perennial, the stoutish and rigid 
tufted decumbent stems 6 to 12 inches high, the whole plant 
canescently hirsutulous, the indument though short all 
spreading: leaves about an inch long, of oval blade and 
broadly winged petiole, the parts of nearly equal length, the 
blade doubly and sharply serrate-toothed, of firm texture very 
veiny, plicately so beneath and the veins then whitish, 
but not so above: spikes solitary or in threes, long and lax: 
ovate-lanceolate bracts exceeding the calyx, or the uppermost 
barely equaling it: corolla minute, scarcely exceeding the 
calyx, dark-blue: mature nutlets not seen. 
At Barstow, 16 April, 1902. Also distributed by Rever- 
chon in 1882, and constituting a part of his n. 737, with 
which, at least in the U. S. Herbarium, is one specimen of 
avery different Verbena, which may be veritable V. canescens, 
as the label has it. But V. plicata has characters of habit, 
foliage and flowers uncommonly good for a Verbena. 
VERBENA LEUCANTHEMIFOLIA. Perennial, slender, erect 
strict as to the panicle of long loose slender spikes: basal, 
leaves of oblong-obovate outline, 1 or 2 inches long, short- 
petilate, deeply and pinnately incise-toothed, strongly but 
hardly canescently strigose on both faces, the upper leaves of 
a linear rachis and a few coarse short teeth or none, these 
almost glabrous, as also the strongly quadrangular stem and 
branches: bracts broadly subulate, little more than half the 
length of the short calyx to which they are appressed: corollas 
very small, blue: nutlets of the smallest, with closely yellow- 
granulate commissure. 
Near Abilene, 19 May, 1902. Plant next of kin to V. 
angustifolia, the sparse bristly appressed hairs of the branches 
and rameal leaves quite the same, but foliage in general 
very different. 
