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2. Lantana aculeata L. Prickly 

 Sage. Pink Sage-bush. (Fig. 336.) 

 A shrub, 4°-6° high, or sometimes 

 with longer, half-climbing stems, the 

 slender, sparingly pubescent, 4-sided 

 branches armed with stout flattened 

 hooked prickles l"-2" long. Leaves 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, petioled, 

 2'-3' long, crenate, reticulate-veined, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed to the base; peduncles li'-3' 

 long; heads several-many-flowered, 

 not involucrate, the narrow bracts 

 pubescent, 2"-3" long; corolla about 

 i' long, yellow to orange, turning 

 pink, its limb 3"-4" broad. [L. poly- 

 acantJia of A. H. Moore.] 



Abundant on hillsides along South 

 Shore Road, Devonshire, 1912, first ob- 

 served in that vicinity in 1905. Nat- 

 uralized. Native of tropical America. 

 Flowers in summer and autumn, per- 

 haps also earlier. Sometimes grown in 

 gardens. 



3. Lantana involucrata L. Common Sage- 

 bush. (Fig. 337.) A puberulent, much branched 

 shrub, 2°-5° high, the branches stiff, nearly terete. 

 Leaves elliptic or oval, petioled, V-IV long, cren- 

 ulate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at 

 the base, scabrous above, pubescent beneath; pe- 

 duncles i'-2' long, slender; heads several-flowered, 

 involucrate by several ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 bracts l-J"-3" long; corolla lilac or nearly white, 

 its tube "3"-4" long; drupes about 2" in diameter. 

 [L. odorata L.] 



Common in all dry uncultivated situations, the 

 most abundant shrub of Bermuda. Naturalized, ac- 

 cording to Lefroy. who states definitely that it was 

 introduced from the Bahamas prior to 1800, with the 

 idea that it would be good for firing; but the bush 

 does not make wood enough to be of use for that 

 purpose, and it certainly appears as if native. 

 Florida and the West Indies. Flowers nearly through- 

 out the year. 



Lantana Sellowiana Link & Otto, Weeping or Trailing Lantana, South 

 American, is a finely hairy shrub, 2*° high or less, with weak and slender 

 branches, .oval or ovate leaves 1' long or less, roughish above, tomentulose 

 beneath; the lilac flowers are in small terminal heads, the corolla-limb 4 -5 

 broad, with a long lower lobe. It is occasionally planted in borders for 

 ornament. 



Lantana nivea Vent, White Lantana, South American, occasional in 

 gardens, has prickly or nearly unarmed branches, ovate crenulate slender 

 petioled leaves 2'-4' long, the white capitate flowers turning rose or bluish, 

 with a yellow eye. It forms a shrub up to 6° high. 



