TAppia. VERBENA CE.E. 609 



* =!■- Stem erect: sjnJces slender-cylindrical, densely-flowered; the flowers and fruit 

 overkqyping : bracts short. 



4. V. hastata, Linn. Perennial, minutely pubescent : stem stouter, 3 to G feet 

 liigli : leaves oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuniiuate, coarsely or incisely serrate, 

 petioled, some of the lower ones commonly bastate-3-lobed : spikes numerous in a 

 terminal panicle, 2 to 4 inches long : corolla blue, 2 lines long, and the limb as 

 broad. — V. pcmiculata, Lam., the name given tc» the form, not uncommon, which 

 has no lobes to the leaves. 



Marshes on the Lower Sacramento, according to Torrey, Bot. Wilkes Exp. 403. ProhaUy else- 

 where in the State. 



* =A % Stems spreading or merely ascending : spikes not filiform. 



5. V. prostrata, R. Brown. kSoft-hirsute or villous : stems at first erect or 

 ascending, a foot high, at length widely branched and diifuse, rarely prostrate : 

 leaves obovate, ovate, or oblong, with cuneate base tapering into a margined petiole, 

 sharply serrate, incised, or 3 - 5-cleft : spikes solitary or panicled, rather slender but 

 dense when in flower, becoming 4 toi 10 inches long, hirsute or villous : bracts 

 subulate, not longer than the calyx : corolla violet or blue, 2 lines long. — Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 41. V. lasiostachys, Link; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 156. 



Common in dry ground through the western parts of the State. Eoot prohably perennial. 

 Plant very variable. From Jamuel Valley, below San Diego, Br. Palmer sends a more upright 

 and thiekish-spiked plant, which might be a cross between this and V. strida, if the latter were 

 Californian ; or perhaps it has some V. hastata in it. 



6. V. bracteosa, Michx. Perennial, hirsute, a span to a foot high, at length 

 diffusely much branched : leaves cuneate-oblong or obovate, pinnately incised or 

 3-cleft and coarsely toothed; the lower narrowed into a short margined petiole; the 

 uppermost passing into bracts : spikes terminating the branches, thickish, rather 

 dense, and squarrose with the rigid lanceolate or linear acuminate and sparsely his- 

 pid foliaceous bracts, which surpass the flowers : corolla purplish or blue, small and 

 slender. — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2910. 



Near Monterey, in alkaline soil, Bolandcr: a peculiar and rigid form, with bracts or bract-like 

 leaves far down the stem. The ordinary form occurs in Oregon, and extends to the Atlantic States. 



§ 2. Flowers more showy : spike at first short and capitate : connective of the anthers 

 of the longer stamens tipped ivith a gland. 



7. V. ciliata, Benth. Low and diffuse, apparently annual, villous-hirsute ; or the 

 leaves somewhat strigose-hispid, once or twice 3-parted or cleft, short-petioled ; the 

 lateral divisions commonly 2-lobed and the middle one 3-5-lobed or incised: bracts 

 lanceolate-subulate, shorter than the calyx : tube of the latter oblong ; the teeth 

 rather short-subulate, nearly equal: corolla "blue," or purple; the tube hardly 

 twice the length of the calyx. — PL Hartw. 21 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 553. 



Tantillas Mountains on the southern borders of the State (Palmer), a form with rather coarsely 

 cleft leaves : extends through Arizona {Palmer, Lieut. Wheeler, ttc.), to W. Texas and Mexico. 



V. BiPiNXATiFiDA, Suhauer {Glandularia bipimiatifida, Nutt.), from Colorado to Texas, is 

 certainly perennial, and lias much longer and slender bracts and calyx-teeth, the latter very 

 unequal. 



2. LIPPIA, Linn. 

 Corolla somewhat funnelform or salverform ; the limb either bilabiate (upper lip 

 entire or 2-lobed, lower 3-parted), or 4-cleft and merely oblique. Stamens 4, in- 

 cluded. Stigma capitate or oblique. Ovary 2-celled, in fruit forming 2 one-seeded 

 nutlets. — Herbs or shrubs, of various aspect : the foliage sometimes aromatic, as in 

 L. citriodora, the sweet Verbena-shrub of the gardens, native of S. America, to 

 which most of the species belong. 



