248 veiwenackjK. 



without anthers, Style slender ; stigma capitate. Cap- 

 eule aeperating into 4 seed-like nutlets. — Herbs, with oppo- 

 site leaves, and mostly alternately spicate, bracted /lowers, rarely 

 capitate or corymbed. 



1. V. HA ST AT A, L. B 7 ue Vervain. 



Tall; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, cut serrate, pctlolcd, the 

 lower oft n lobe J and sometimes halbert-forin at the base; spikes slender erect, 

 densely flowered, corymbed or panicled. Ter. 



Low and waste ground? ; common. July — Sept. Stem 3 to 4 f et high, with pan- 

 iculate opposite brauehei above. Leaves rough, opposite. flowers small, blue, 

 arranged in long, close, imbricated spikes, erect and parallel to each other. S ids 

 4. A variety with lance-orate, or lance-oblong sharply serrate leaves and smaller 

 flowers is occasionally nutwith: probably a hybrel between thin aud the next 

 species. 



2. V. urticifolia, L. Neitle-leaoed Vervain. 



Erect, somewhat pubescent: leaves oval or obloug-ovatc, acute, coarsely perr*»% 

 petioled; spikes very slender, at length much elongated with the flowers r.m>tj, 

 loosely panicled ; flowers tetraudrou?. 



Old fields and roadside* r caramon: introdaced. 'Jaly— -Sept Per. ardngh'sh, 

 hairy plant with slender .spreading branehssy2 to 8- feat high. Flojotrs white-, 

 very Binall, remote, o.idiverg-ut. slender spike;. 



3. V. SPURIA, L. . Cat-leaved Vervain. 



Stem decumbent, loosely broached, diiluso; Icaivs sessile, p:nnatinl, the lobts 

 ent-toothed; spikes very slender, loosely panicled: -bracts longer than tb.3 enlyx; 

 upper stamens imperfect. Annua! or Biennial. 



Sandy fields and roadsides; rare. Aur. — Oct. Stem square, 1 to 2 feet long, at 

 length much branched, half erect. Spiles 3 to G inch; s long, bearing very tiaall 

 purplish-blue or rose-colored irowers, at length scattered on the Bpifce, 



4. V. angustifolia, Miehx. Narrow-lemved Vervain. 



Dwarf, erect, mostly simple; leases tinear-lanecolate, attenuate at the baa*, re- 

 motely toothed; sj-.ikr.* solitary, the rowers r.-t first crowded. 



Dry hills or sandy fields. July — Sept. A s.nsll hairy species '6 to 12 ir.chas 

 hfgh, with leaves 3 inches lon.^. and j^ Inch wide. Flowcrt j.urp!Lsh-biue, lar^^t 

 thin in any of the preceding species. 



5. V. MELINDREF, Lind. Scarlet Verbena. 



Stem and branches spreading, h dry ; leaves opposite, obovate or broad-lanceolcta, 

 deeply toothed, rough: on the u.mer side, hairy beneath; flower* in terminal 



Lranches; calyx hairy, tubular, ba'faslong as the corrolla. A beautiful perennial 

 border flower, native of Buenos Ay-res, blooming all snmmer. much cultivated in 

 bousea and couservitcriea. - FLacers of a dealing; scarlet, but in the numerous ?a» 

 ritties some are white, lilac, purple, pink and flesh color. Cjrolla with a spreading 

 itoib, tL.8 3 lower segments larger than the 2 upper ones. 



2. FKRYMA, Linn. LoreEEr.. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped j upper lip of 3 bristle-awl- 

 draped teeth j lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped j 

 vpper lip notched ; lower much larger, 3-lobed. Stamiwb 

 4, included. Style slender. Stigma 2-lobcd. Faur* 

 oblongs l-celled ; l-ge«de<i — A perennial herb, with tUndar 





