Verbena. VERBENACE.E. 337 



ceeding the flowers, the uppermost ovate-lanceolate and only equalling them: corolla 

 bluish (about 2 lines long) : nutlets with a narrower almost smooth commissure. — I1BK. 

 Nov. Gen. & Spec. ii. 274, t. 130. V. gracilis, Desf. Cat. ed. 3, 393. V. remota, Benth. 

 Hartw. 21. V. Reemeriana, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 755 ? — Dry open grounds, W. Texas to 

 S. California. (Mex.) 



Var. Neo-Mexicana. Stems rather strict and slender : leaves bipinnately cleft or 

 almost parted: bracts not longer than the calyx. — V. officinalis, var. lunula, Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 28. — Borders of thickets near the Coppermines, New Mexico, Wright, Birjelow. 

 Appears as if a hybrid between V. canescens and V. officinalis. S. Arizona, similar in foliage 

 but with long bracts, Rothrock. 



§ 2. Flowers more showy, at first depressed-capitate, becoming spicate in fruit : 

 anthers of the longer stamens appeudaged by a gland on the connective : tube of 

 corolla at the upper part lined with reflexed bristly hairs, especially the anterior 

 side : anther-cells slightly oblique or unequal. — Glandularia, Gmelin, Nutt. 

 Billardiera, Mcench. Shuttleworthia, Meissner. Vwarowia, Bunge. 



# Gland of the anthers small and short, sometimes inconspicuous, on the middle of the back: 

 mainly fibrous-rooted perennial*; but seedlings flowering as annuals: nutlets reticulate-rugulose, 

 mostly scabrous on the commissure. Species difficult to distinguish, apparently passing into 

 each other. 



V. ciliata, Benth. Low or depressed, hirsute-pubescent or hispid, 3 to 10 inches high, 

 diffusely spreading from an apparently annual root; the branches not creeping nor rooting 

 at base : leaves once or twice 3-cleft or parted and variously incisely lobed, to 12 lines 

 long, with cuneate base contracted into a margined petiole ; lobes from linear to oblong : 

 spikes short-peduncled or sessile, dense, at most oblong: fructiferous calyx oblong, 24 or 3 

 lines long, with short subulate teeth : limb of the purple or bluish corolla 2 to 4 lines 

 broad: gland of the anthers usually very small. — PI. Hartw. 21 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 553; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 008. — Dry plains, W. Texas to Arizona and the southern 

 border of California. (Mex.) 



V. bipinnatifida, Nutt. A span to a foot high, hispid-hirsute, perennial, rooting from 

 subterranean branches: leaves (14/ to 4 inches long), bipinnately parted, or 3-parted into 

 more or less bipinnatifid divisions ; the lobes commonly linear or rather broader : spikes 

 in age elongated . bracts setaceous-attenuate, mostly surpassing the calyx : teeth of the 

 latter slender, subulate-setaceous from a broader base, unequal : limb of the bluish-pur- 

 ple or lilac corolla 4 or 5 lines broad ; lobes obcordate : nutlets at maturity usually 

 retrorsely muriculate-scabrous or hispidulous on the commissure. — Jour. Acad. Philad. ii. 

 123 ; Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 203 ; Schauer in DC. 1. c. 553. Glandularia bipitinalifida, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. v. 184. — Plains and prairies, Arkansas and Texas to 

 the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, &c. Cult, as " V. montana." 



V. Aubletia, L. A foot or less high, branching and ascending from a creeping or root- 

 ing base, perennial (as rightly said by Jacquin), slender, soft-pubescent, hirsute, or gla- 

 brate : leaves (1 or 2 inches long) ovate or ovate-oblong in outline, with truncate or broadly 

 cuneate base tapering into a margined petiole, incisely lobed and toothed, often more deeply 

 3-cleft: spikes pedunculate, elongated in fruit: bracts subulate or linear-attenuate, shorter 

 than or equalling the similar slender and unequal teeth of the narrow calyx : limb of the 

 reddish-purple or lilac (rarely white) corolla half or two-thirds inch broad: commissure of 

 the nutlets minutely white-dotted or nearly smooth. — Jacq. Vind. ii. 82, 1. 170 ; L. f. Suppl. 

 86; Bot. Mag. t. 308; Michx. Fl. ii. 13; Bot. Reg. t.294, 1. 1925 (var. Drummondi) ; Schauer 

 in DC. 1. c. 554. V. Obletia, Retz. V. lomjifiom, Lam. Buchnem Canadensis, L. Mant. 88. 

 Glandularia Carolinensis, Gmel. Billardiera explanata, Mcench. V. Lamberli, Sims, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2200; Schauer, 1. c. ; form with narrower and more incised leaves. V. Lamberli, var. 

 rosea, Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 363, with large and light-colored corolla (three-fourths 

 inch wide, fragrant). — Open woods and prairies, Florida to Illinois, Arkansas, and New 

 Mexico. (Mex.) Cult., variously mixed. 



# # Gland of the anthers oval, as high and almost as large as one of the cells : stem erect from an 

 annual root. 



V. Wrightii. Hispidulous-pubescent : stem simple below, 2 feet high : leaves pinnately 

 3-7-parted or deeply cleft, contracted at base into a margined petiole; lobes mostly lan- 



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