VERBENA FAMILY. Verbcnaccac. 



VERBENA FAMILY. Verbenoceoe. 



A large family, widely distributed; herbs and shrubs; 

 leaves opposite, or in whorls; flowers perfect, in clusters; 

 calyx with four or five lobes or teeth; corolla with four or 

 five united lobes, almost regular or two- lipped ; stamens on 

 the corolla, usually four, in two sets; ovary superior, with 

 one style and one or two stigmas, when ripe separating 

 into from two to four, one-seeded nutlets. 



There are many kinds of Verbena, chiefly American; 

 perennials; calyx tubular, with five teeth; corolla usually 

 salver-form, with five lobes, usually slightly two-lipped; 

 stigmas with two lobes, only the larger lobe fertile; fruit 

 four nutlets. This is the Latin name of some sacred plant. 



This is very much like a garden Verbena, 

 Wild Verbena 

 Verbtna an attractive little plant, from four to six 



Arizonica inches tall, with hairy stems and prettily 



shaped leaves, dull green, soft and hairy. 

 The gay little flowers are about half an 

 inch across, with a bright pinkish-lilac 

 corolla, with a white or yellowish "eye," and a sticky- 

 hairy calyx, and form a charming flat-topped cluster. 

 This grows among the rocks, above the Desert Laboratory 

 at Tucson and in similar places. 



A loosely-branching plant, from one to 

 Common Vervain two feet tall, with dull green, hairy stems, 

 Verbena prostrata dull green, soft, hairy leaves, and very 



small flowers in a long spike, too few open 

 spring, summer, . _, . . 



autumn at one time to De effective. The corolla is 



California lilac or bluish, often with a magenta tube 



and magenta "eye." This grows in dry 

 open hill country. 



MINT FAMILY. Labiatae. 



A very large family, with distinctive characteristics; 

 widely distributed. Ours are herbs or low shrubs, generally 

 aromatic, with usually square and hollow stems; leaves 

 opposite, with no stipules; flowers perfect, irregular, in 

 clusters, usually with bracts; calyx usually five- toothed, 

 frequently two-lipped; corolla more or less two-lipped, 

 apper lip usually with two lobes, lower lip with three; 

 stamens usually four, in pairs, on the corolla-tube, alter- 

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