268 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 
LARGE-FLOWERED VERBENA. (flate CXXX/X.) 
Verbena Canadénsts. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Vervain. Purple. Scentless. Fiorida to S, Carolina May-August. 
and westward. 
Flowers : growing closely in terminal spikes. Cadyx: tubular; with five un- 
equal teeth, long, slender. Corol/a: salver-shape ; long ; with five lobes: 
bearded in the throat. Stamens: four, included. /vstz/ : one; stigma, two- 
lobed.. Leaves: opposite; tapering into a long petiole; thrice divided and 
the lobes deeply toothed; hairy. Svem : creeping at the base; forking; hairy. 
Asa hardy plant this verbena is rivalled by fewin brightness 
of expression. It isnot so beautiful as the Brazilian varieties 
which receive so much consideration from the gardeners, but it 
has many of their characteristics, and is intermingled with 
them in cultivation. In the language of flowers these plants 
have been chosen as emblems of sensibility. 
COMMON EVENING-PRIMROSE. 
Onagra bzénnis. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Evening primrose. Pale yellow. Fragrant. General. June-Septensber. 
Flowers; large; clustered ona leafy spike. Ca/yx: tubular, of four long, 
pointed sepals. Coro//a: often two inches broad, of four obcordate petals del- 
icately veined with green. Stamens: eight. stil: one; stigma, four- 
branched. Leaves; alternate; lanceolate; slender. Stem: erect. 
Those that see the evening-primrose only in the daytime have 
no conception of its fairness when it opens its petals to commune 
with the night revellers. Among them are the rarest of Na- 
ture’s children which under the stars come out from their hid- 
ing places. Many of the loveliest flowers reserve their beauty 
and exquisite fragrance to bestow upon the night. They are 
visited by moths and insects that far surpass in beauty those 
of the day and which are never seen until the earth is wrapped 
in her dark mantle. The sweetest singing birds and the most 
beautiful animals are then flying and roving about. There is 
music in the flap of the pink night moth’s wing and all the buzz- 
ing noises of the night. 3 

