VERBENA FAMILY. Verbenaceae. 
VERBENA FAMILY.  Verbenaceae. 
A large family, widely distributed; herbs and shrubs; 
leaves opposite, or in whorls; flowers perfect, in clusters; 
calyx with four or five lobes or teeth; corolla with four or 
five united lobes, almost regular or two-lipped; stamens on 
the corolla, usually four, in two sets; ovary superior, with 
one style and one or two stigmas, when ripe separating 
into from two to four, one-seeded nutlets. 
There are many kinds of Verbena, chiefly American; 
perennials; calyx tubular, with five teeth; corolla usually 
salver-form, with five lobes, usually slightly two-lipped; 
stigmas with two lobes, only the larger lobe fertile; fruit 
four nutlets. This is the Latin name of some sacred plant. 
Wild Verbena This is very much like a garden Verbena, 
Vaptone an attractive little plant, from four to six 
Arizonica inches tall, with hairy stems and prettily 
Lilac shaped leaves, dull green, soft and hairy. 
Spring 
The gay little flowers are about half an 
inch across, with a bright pinkish-lilac 
corolla, with a white or yellowish ‘‘eye,” and a sticky- 
hairy calyx, and form a charming flat-topped cluster. 
This grows among the rocks, above the Desert Laboratory 
at Tucson and in similar places. 
A loosely-branching plant, from one to 
Common Vervain two feet tall, with dull green, hairy stems, 
Verbéna prosirata dull green, soft, hairy leaves, and very 
Arizona 
sae small flowers in a long spike, too few open 
Spring, summer, : ; : 
anid at one time to be effective. The corolla is 
California _ lilac or bluish, often with a magenta tube 
“ec ” 
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and magenta “‘eye 
open hill country. 
This grows in dry 
MINT FAMILY. Labditatae. 
A very large family, with distinctive characteristics; 
widely distributed. Ours are herbs or low shrubs, generally 
aromatic, with usually square and hollow stems; leaves 
opposite, with no stipules; flowers perfect, irregular, in 
clusters, usually with bracts; calyx usually five-toothed, 
frequently two-lipped; corolla more or less two-lipped, 
upper lip usually with two lobes, lower lip with three; 
stamens usually four, in pairs, on the corolla-tube, alter- 
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