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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



1. A. reptans, (Linn.) creeping or common Bugle. The term 

 reptans applies to the creeping scions. Engl. Bot. t. 489. 



Locality. Woods and damp shady places. P. Fl. May, June. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Recorded in all the Districts. Flowers in close whorls in the axils 

 of nearly all the leaves; the upper ones forming a cylindrical 

 leafy spike Corolla blue, rarely flesh-colour or white, with the 

 tube much longer than the calyx. 



2. A. Chama'pitys, (Schreb.) is stated in the 3rd edition of 

 English Botany, to have been found in Wilts. I should feel greatly 

 obliged to any Botanist for the locality, accompanied by a specimen. 



ORDER. VERBENACEiE. (JUSS.) 



This order (named after its type, Verbena), is closely allied to 

 the Labiatce, though the difference, which chiefly consists in the 

 ovarium, is considered sufficient to require its separation from that 

 order. 



Yerbena, Linn. Vervain. 

 Linn. CI. xiv. Ord. ii. 



Name. From the old Celtic word ferfaen. 



1. V. officinalis, (Linn.) officinal or common Vervain. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 767. St. 3. 



Locality. Roadsides and waste ground near houses. A. Fl. 

 July, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Generally distributed throughout Wilts. Lower leaves obovate or 

 oblong, stalked, and coarsely toothed or cut ; the tipper ones few, 

 sessile, and lanceolate. Flowers very small, in long slender spikes, 

 pale purple. 



