Ferbena.] verbenaceje. 393 



solitary with creeping scions, leaves ovate or obovate sinuate or 

 quite entire."— 5r. Fl. p. 313. E. B. t. 489. 



/3. Flowers pure white. 



y. Flowers light purple or pink. 



in moist woods, ihiokets, pastures and shady places ; abundantly. 



^. In the wood adjoining Calboume New Barn, not unfrequent. Near Byde. 

 " Abounds in the Isle of Wight," Smith. 



y. In Quarr copse. Apley wood. 



Order LVIII. VERBENACE^, Jms. 



" Calyx tubular or campanulate, persistent. Corolla monopeta- 

 lous; tube elongated; llmh irregular, 4 — 5 lobed. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, or 2; anthers 2-celled. Ooary 2 — 4 celled, 2 — 4 

 seeded. Style 1, terminal. Stigma bifid or entire. Cajysule 

 separating at length into 4 achenes, or indehiscent, or a berry 

 with 1 — 4 nucules. Albumen none. Radicle inferior. — Trees or 

 shrubs, or herbaceous plants. Leaves generally opposite.'^ — 

 Br. Fl. 



I. Verbena, Lmn. Vervain. 



" Calyx tubular, with 5 teeth, one of them usually shorter than 

 the rest. Corolla tubular, with the limb rather unequal, 5-cleft. 

 Stamens included (very rarely only 2). Ovary 4-celled ; cells 

 1-seeded. Capsule dividing into four 1-seeded achenes." — Br. FT,. 



1. V. officinalis, L. Common Vervain. Sim])ler's Joy. " Sta- 

 mens 4, stem 4-angled erect somewhat hispid, leaves rough espe- 

 cially beneath sliining above lanceolate inciso-serrate ortrifid with 

 the segments cut, spikes filiform somewhat panicled, flowers rather 

 remote, bracteas ovate acuminated about half the length of the 

 calyx."— ^r. Fl. p. 325. E. B. t. 767. 



On dry banks, in churchyards, along hedges, roadsides and waste ground ; 

 common, and chiefly near inhabited places ; more rarely in woods and pastures 

 remote from habitations. Fl. Ja\y — September, /"r. Septem^)er ? October. If. 



S. Med. — In Binstead stone-pits, and elsewhere about Ryde occasionally. 

 Very common at Bonchurch, Ventnor, St. Lawrence, and along the Undercliff 

 generally. Farm-yard at the Priory. Nunwell farm. Common at the W. end 

 of Shepherd's lane, by Hasely farm, and about the farm itself, 1844. 



W. Med. — In very sequestered copsewood at the upper end of the valley at 

 Apes Down, 1845. Woods at Swainston. Extremely frequent about Yarmouth, 

 Thorley and Calbourne. Abundant about Freshwater, in the direction of Alum 

 bay, as on Pound green. Brixton churchyard. 



? 2. Ajuga Chamapitys. 



In dry, sandy, gravelly fields overc halk. 



A dubious inhabitant of the Isle of Wight, reported lo me as growing in fields 

 about Week farm, near Niton, along with Melampyrum arvense, but, though a 

 very likely station to produce it, this species has never occurred to my observation 

 there or elsewhere in the island. 



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