Verbena. 



VERBENACEiE. 



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4. Verbena angustifolia, Michx. Narrow-leaved Vervain. 



Stems erect or inclined, mostly simple ; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate at the base, 

 remotely toothed, with elevated veins ; spikes filiform. — Michx. fl. 2. p. 14 ; Pers. syn. 2. 

 p. 138 ; Torr. compend. p. 338 ; Beck, hot. p. 284. V. rugosa, Willd. enam. 1. p. 663 ; 

 Pursh, fl. 2. p. 417. 



Perennial. Stem about a foot high, sometimes sparingly branched, rough with minute stiff 

 hairs on the angles. Leaves 14 — 3 inches long and 3-5 lines wide, with a long cuneate 

 base, rough. Spike terminal, solitary, or several when the stem is branched, 2-6 inches 

 long. Flowers at first somewhat imbricate, but finally loose, and the lower ones rather remote. 

 Bracts lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Corolla twice as large as in V hastata, purplish 

 blue ; the segments obovate. Stamens 4. Fruit 4-carpelled, striate and pitted. 



Sandy fields and dry hill-sides on the Island of New-York. July - August. 



2. PHRYMA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 516; Juss. gen. p. 117. LOP-SEED. 



[Origin of the name uncertain.] 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped : upper lip longer, of three subulate bristly teeth ; lower shorter, 

 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped : upper lip short, emarginate ; lower much larger, flat, 3-lobed. 

 Stamens 4, included. Ovary oblong, one-celled, with a solitary ascending ovule, tapering 

 into a slender style : stigma 2-lobed. Fruit narrowly oblong, membranaceous but rather 

 thick, enclosed in the calyx ; the persistent style arising from a little below the obtuse 

 summit. Seed conformed to the cavity of the pericarp. Cotyledons large and foliaceous, 

 replicate and folded one within the other. Albumen none. — Herbaceous, with opposite 

 ovate leaves. Flowers opposite, in long slender simple and terminal spikes. Calyx reflexed 

 after flowering, and bent close to the rachis. 



Endlicher has unaccountably referred this genus to Priva of Adanson, to which it has scarcely any resemblance. 



1. Phryma Leptostachya, Linn. Lojiseed. 



Linn. sp. 2. p. 601 ; Walt. fl. Car. p. 166 ; Michx. fl. 2. p. 13 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 415 j 

 Ell. sk. 2. p. 96 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 241 ; Torr. compend. p. 238 ; Beck, hot. p. 284 ; 

 Darlingt.fl. Cest, p. 371. 



Perennial. Stem about two feet high, with two or more spreading virgate branches above, 

 pubescent, slender. Leaves ovate, 3-5 inches long, spreading, coarsely and unequally 

 toothed, thin ; the lower ones abruptly narrowed at the base, and furnished with long petioles ; 

 the uppermost nearly or quite sessile. Spikes 3-6 inches long. Flowers small and de- 

 licate, nearly sessile, mostly opposite but occasionally alternate, at first somewhat erect, then 

 spreading horizontally, bent abruptly downward. Calyx smooth, at first cylindrical, but at 

 length dilated toward the base ; the teeth of the upper lip purplish, rigid, recurved : lower lip 



