Verbena Tweedieana chiefly in its lower leaves, which are broader, less 
attenuate at the base, and less acutely pointed, and also in the colour of 
the flowers being more purplish. Itis clearly a transition link between 
Verbena Tweedieana and Verbena incisa, figured by Sir W. J. Hook- 
er in Botanical Magazine, folio 3625; and hence it may be doubted 
whether all the three plants ought not more properly to be grouped as 
one Se as Some: a has done with many forms of Fuschia. 
Our p f the beauty of the allied species,and 
to the indrodicens of these pclannlis plants their countrymen, not only of 
the present but of all succeeding generations, owe a debt of gratitude, 
which it is alike impossible to calculate or discharge. We hold that those 
enterprising individuals who, having left their native land, seek to beau- 
tify it, and to give our gardens something of paradisaical loveliness, 
by collecting, and transmitting the seeds of those flowers, which they 
_ meet with in their wanderings, confer a benefit which cannot be too 
highly estimated, and should ever be gratefully acknowledged. The 
common Verbena officinalis, a native of Britain, now neglected, 
once held potent sway over the minds of our ancestors. ‘The Druids, 
both in Gaul and Britain, regarded the Vervain with the same ven- 
eration which they bestowed on the Misletoe, and like the Magi of the 
East, they offered sacrifices to the earth, before they cut this plant in 
the spring, which was a ceremony of great pomp.” Philips’s Flora 
Historica. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTurRE. Seeds were sent by 
Mr. Tweedie, in 1834, to Mr. Niven, of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 
Dublin, by whom a single plant was raised. To the courtesy of Mr. 
Niven we owe the drawing, and following instructive notice. “This 
plant may be propagated by seeds or cuttings; and grows best in sandy 
loam, in an airy and well exposed situation. It will be found another 
most interesting addition for bedding-out in the flower garden. It is 
a remarkably free-grower, and should be preserved in the greenhouse 
or frame, during winter, in smal] thumb pots, to be ready for turning 
out in spring. It flowers the whole summer.” 
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Verbena Tweepieana. Hooker, in Botanical Magazine, folio 3541, 
