104 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
and lower lips conniving, more or less closed ; sexual organs en- 
closed, the branches of the style resting against the stamens, of 
which bee connective is further reduced to 3 mm. in length. 
fs arge, proterandrous flowers are frequented by honey-bees 
and Pasibies bees, and fertilized in a similar way to those of 
S. pratensis, while the smaller intermediate flowers are visited by 
honey-bees only, and the abortive, more or less cleistogamous ones, 
which are not brolseans Tous, are negulany:t a fertilized. It may 
= atcagee that the allogamous flower most prevalent in 
an later in the season as Siiseapunons forms 
predomina 
On of these variations in the corolla, M. Briquet, in 
Siesiving the different plants of the group, largely ignores the 
floral characters, and relies mainly on those afforded the 
oHOEe uniting all the forms under one species, S. Verbenaca L., 
thus 
i. Subsp. Jasemeee Leaves generally oblong, cut into lobes 
secre, 3 one-third of the distance from the margin 
“ the midrib. 
a. V. aienpitie (= 8S. oblongata Vahl). Leaves regularly 
crenate-serra 
B. v. Verbenaca bn i S. Verbenaca L. Ho Pl. ed. 2, sensu 
stricto). Leaves more deeply and irregularly sinuate- 
crenelate. 
y. Vv. sto acaagan Leaves as in var. 8, but broader, ovate- 
elliptic in outline. 
2. Subsp. cLANDEsTINA. Leaves ovate or oblong in outline, 
sempre with eee reaching about a third of the 
b. 
way t midri 
d. Vv. banat S. clandestina L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, pp.= 
S. precox Savi= S. pallidiflora St. Am. = S. horminoides 
r. & God.). Leaves oblong, elongate. 
te harminoide s (=S. horminotdes Pourr.). Leaves ovate, 
ad 
3. Subsp. MULTIFIDA. ge oblong-elongate or ovate, cut nearly 
¢. v. controversa eee S. controversa Ten. non Benth.). Leaves 
oblong-elongate, with distant lobes. 
n. V. multifida Vis. (= S. multifide Sibth. & Sm.). Leaves 
broadly ovate. 
pmecct s ons of th I i | annotated 
oro 
Sains. and no mention is made of the differences of scent 
arising from the varying development of the glands. 
