242 VERVAIN FAMILT. 



row lanceolate, sessile, roughish, slightly toothed ; spikes few, thickish, crowded 

 with pui-ple flowers. 



V. Stricta, Hoart V. Barrens W. & S. : whitish-hairy, l°-2° high; 

 leaves obovate or oblong, serrate, sessile ; spikes thick and dense ; flowers blue, 

 larger than in the others. 



V. ixSt^StkUi, Blue V. Stem 4° - 6° high ; leaves lance-oblong, some of 

 the larger with short side lobes at base, cutserrate, petioled; spikes densely- 

 flowered, corymbed or panicled ; flowers blue. 



V. urticif61ia, Nettle-leaved or White V. Stem 4°-6°high; 

 leaves oval or oblong-ovate, coarsely serrate, petioled ; spikes of small white 

 flowers slender and loose. 



V. officinalis, European V. Nat. by roadsides, at least S. Stems 

 l°-3° high, bi-anched ; leaves sessile, 3-cleft and mostly pinnatifid into narrow 

 cut-toothed lobes ; small purplish flowers in very slender panicled spikes. 



V. bractebsa. From Wisconsin S. ; hairy, spreading or procumbent ; 

 leaves wed^je-shaped or lance-oblong, cut-pinnatifid or 3-cleft, short-petioled ; 

 small purple flowers in solitary loose spikes, the lower ones leafy-bracted. 



§ 2.- "Verbexas of the garden sort, with creephuj or spreading stnns, and dense 

 spikes of larger or showij flowers : anthers of the longer stamens ivith u, 

 gland-lvce tip. ^ CD 



V.'Aubletia. Wild from HI. and Carolina W. & S. : has cut-pinnatifid 

 leaves, and a long-peduncled spike of purple flowers, minutely bearded in the 

 throat. — This and the several following species from South Brazil, Buenos 

 Ayres, &c., variously and greatly mixed, make up the Verbenas which adorn 

 ourgardens in summer. 



v. chamsedrifoiia, the original Scarlet V., with oblong-lanceolate 

 coarsely serrate leaves, nearly all sessile, and most intense red or scarlet flowers, 

 in a flat cluster. 



V. phlogiflbra, also named TweediXna. More upright; the loaves 

 decidedly petioled ; the flowers inclined to form an oblong spike, and crimson, 

 varying to rose, but not to scarlet. 



v. incisa, differs from the last in the pinnatifid-incised leaves, the petioled 

 ones with a heart-shaped base ; flowers in a flat cluster, rose-color or purple. 



V. teucroldes. Erect or spreading, with ovate-oblong and incised sessile 

 leaves, and a lengthened spike of white or pale rosy flowers, sweet-scented, 

 especially at nightfall. 



V. eriuoides, or multIfida. Dwarf and much creeping, rough-hairy, 

 with leaves pinnatifid into linear divisions, and originally with violet purple " 

 flowers, and 



V. pulch^lla or tesera, with equally finely cut leaves, and rather larger 

 originally rose-violet flowers, are part parents of the smaller races. 



3. LIPPIA. (Namedfor .4. Zi!p;)8, an Italian botanist.) Fl. late summer. 

 Ii. lanceol&ta, Fog-pruit. A creeping weedy herb, along river-banks 



from Penn. S. & W., with wedge-spatulate or oblanceolate leaves serrate above 

 the middle, and slender peduncles fifom the axils bearing a head of bluish 

 small flowers. 



L. eitrioddra (or ALofsiA), the Lemon-scented or Sweet Verbena 

 of the gardens ; shrub from Chili, with whorls of linear-lanceolate fragrant 

 leaves, roughish with glandular dots, and small whitish and bluish flowers in 

 slender spikes. 



4. LANTANA. (Origin of name obscure.) Tropical or subtropical, 

 mostly shrubby plants, planted out in summer, when they flower freely until 

 frost comes ; stems often rough-prickly ; herbage and flowers odorous, iv 

 some pleasant, others not so. The species are much mixed. 



L. Camara, from Tropical America, has flowers deep yellow, turning first 

 to orange, then to red. 



Ii. mixta, from Brazil, has flowers opening white, soon changing to yel- 

 low, orange, and finally to red. 



