694 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Illinois, southern Missouri, south to 

 Texas and east to Florida and South Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Prairie region. Dry prairies. Wilcox County (S. B, Buckley). Tus- 

 caloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers rose-purple, showy; March, April. Rare; 

 frequently cultivated. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena rigida Spreng. Syst. Veg. 4, pt. 2 : 230. 1827. RIGID VERBENA. 



Verbena venosa Gill & Hook, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 1 : 167. 1830. 



Introduced from Brazil and escaped from cultivation. Naturalized on the Gulf 

 coast and in southern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mobile County, roadsides, waste places near dwellings. Flowers 

 carmine; April, May. Not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Rio Grande. Sello." (Brazil.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena bonariensis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 28. 1762. 



Adventive from southern Brazil, Argentina. 



ALABAMA: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. Flowers purplish ; July. A coarse 

 branching plant, 2 to 3 feet high. Observed first July, 1893, and subsequent seasons ; 

 spreading to roadsides. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in agro Bonariensi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena tenera Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2 : 750. 1827. 



Adventive from southern Brazil, Argentina. 



ALABAMA: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast (Hunter's Wharf). Flower deep 

 blue; August, September. 1893-1895. Low creeping, the sutTruticosestem 1 to 2 feet 

 long. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Montevideo. Sello." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena canescens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2 : 274, 1. 136. 1814. 



Adventive from Mexico. 



Mobile County, on ballast heaps. June to November, 1892-1894. Flowers lilac. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : "Crescit in montibus Mexicanorum, prope Guanaxuato, Marfil et 

 fodinam Belgrade, alt. 1000-1250 hex." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



ABBNA Necker, Elem. Bot. 1. 1790. 

 (STACHYTARPHETA Vahl, Enum. 1:205. 1805.) 



About 40 species, tropical America. 

 Abena jamaicensis (L.) A. S. Hitchcock in Trelease, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1893. 



Verbena jamaicensis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 19. 1753. 



Stachytarpheta jamaicensis Vahl, Enum. 1 : 206. 1805. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 334. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 494. 



WEST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County, September, 1893. Not observed 

 since. Annual. 



Type locality : " flab, in Jamaica et Caribaeis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BOUCHE A Cham. Linnaea, 7 : 253. 1832. 



Tropical regions of Africa, India, America. 

 Bouchea prismatica (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2:502. 1891. 

 Verbena prismatica L. Sp. PI. 1 : 19. 1753. 

 Stacht/tarpheta prismatica Vahl, Enum. 1 : 205. 1805. 

 Bouchea ehrenbergii Cham. Linnaea, 7 : 253. 1832. 

 Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 334. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 493. 



