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pla flower is formed of a fingle petal : 
bent or crooked, from this part it 
fegments, which form two irregular lips. 
equal in jength , 
tubular and angulated : it is formed of a fingle 
of thefe is fhorter than the reft. The feeds 
brown. 
Linnzus places this among the diandria monogynia 
ftyle fingle. 
By this arrangement 
other verticillate plants. 
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Common Vervain. 
Verbena vulgaris. 
‘The root is compofed of many thick, fhort 
fibres, conneéted to a {mall oblong head. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, “and very tough : 
its colour is a brownifh green, often red towards 
the bafe; and it is edged and angulated. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are oblong, 
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moderately broad, and deeply finuated and in- 
dented: the indentings are rounded, and the end 
of the leaf is obtufe. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale, faint co- 
lour, white, with a tinge of bluifh or purplith ; 
and they ftand in long, flender fpikes at the tops 
of the ftalks and branches. 
The feeds are oblong, {mall, and brown. 
D TP VeIseiO" Ne I: 1340) 
1. Fine-leaved Vervain. 
Verbena tenuifolia. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and in great 
part procumbent : they are of a pale green, and 
angulated. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are 
oblong, moderately broad, and very beauti- 
fully divided: they are firft cut in a pinnated 
manner; and thefe fegments are again divided 
pretty deeply. Their colour is a brownifh green. 
The flowers are fmall, and placed in fingle, 
long, and very flender fpikes. 
It is a native of Spain, and other warm parts 
of Europe. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calis it Verbena tenuifolia ; a name 
copied by moft others. 
This plant is an inflance of the extreme folly 
of placing the verticillate plants in diftinét clafies 
from the flight differences in the filaments of the 
flower. ‘ 
Linnzeus feparates verwain from the reft of them, 
becaufe it has only: two threads in the flower 5 
‘eds tubular at the lower part, and toward the upper is 
{preads into a kind of gaping mouth; and is divided into five 
The feveral fegments are fhort, rounded, and nearly 
and there is lefs of the labiated form than in moft others of this clafs, 
piece, divided into five fegments at the rim; and one 
ftand naked in the cup; and they are oblong and 
The cup is 
the threads in the flower being two, and the 
he joins it in the fame clafs with the /ycopus, and feparates it far from the 
SPECIES. 
~ Tt is common by path-ways, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Verbena communis ceruleo 
flore. Others, Verbena vulgaris, and Herba facra, 
It isa plant of great virtue, though under a ge- 
neral neglect : it is good againft diforders of the 
‘nerves; and is fuperior to moft things in the 
cure of inveterate headachs. For this purpofe 
the tops fhould be dried and powdered, and taken 
for a confiderable time, twenty grains asa dofe. 
The juice boiled toa fyrup with honey is ex- 
cellent againft coughs. 
The infufion, in manner of tea, is good againft 
obftructions of the vifcera, and particularly of 
the fpleen. ! 
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whereas they have in general four; but this fpe- 
cies of vervain has four threads. That author 
calls it Verbena tetrandra ,; a contradiction in the 
moft exprefs words to his claffical character 
wherein vervain ftands, that being djandria. 
2. Great-flowered American Vervain. 
Verbena flore violaceo majore. 
The root is long, whitifh, and full of fibres: 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and of a pale green 
toward the top, and at the bottom purplifh, 
The leaves are of an oval fhape, dented at the 
edges, and of a fine bright green. 
The flowers are very numerous and beau- 
tiful: they terminate the ftalks in long fpikes, 
with leaves among them; and they are of the 
fhape of cowflips, but of the colour of the violet, 
a fine deep blue purple. 
The feeds are long and flender. 
It is frequent in many parts of North Ame- 
rica, and flowers in July. : 
Plukenet calls it Verbena orubica tenuifolia. 
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