PL ex, cor. 
33 , PYRENACEiE. 152. Verbena. 391 
Verbena vulgaris, Raii Syn. 236, 1. 
Verbena communis, Ger. era. 718, 1. 
Verbena mas, sive recta et vulgaris, Park. 678. 
Verbena officinalis, Lin. S. P. 29. 
Holy herb. Juno's tears. Mercury's moist blood, Pygeon's grease. 
Columbine. 
Fields, ruins, and waysides; perennial, Ray and Curtis ; 
biennial, Hudson and Aiton ; annual, Boerhaave and Lin- 
naeus; July. 
Stem upright, bent at bottom ; leaves rough ; lower leaves 
deeply lobed; upper leaves 3-cut or simple; spikes many- 
flowered; bractece ovate, acute, shorter than the calyx; 
rolla small, purple ; mouth fringed ; galea 2-cut ; lip 3-lobed, 
nearly equal. — Herb cephalic, slightly astringent ; decoction 
used in headach, coughs, jaundice, and other obstructions 
of the viscera; and as a gargle in sore throat. 
Fam. XVII. 34. OLEINiE. Link. Jasminear urn pars, 
Jussieu. 
Flowers hermaphrodite; calyx 1-leafed, free, persistent, 
divided; corolla hypogynous, 1-petaled, 4-cut ; eestivation 
valvate ; stamens 2, alternating with the lobes of the co- 
rolla; anthers 2-celled, cells opening lengthways; ovary 1, 
simple, base not glandular, 2-celled ; ovules pendulous, 2 in 
each cell, side by side; style 1 ; stigma 2-cut; fruit a berry 
or drupe, 1 or 2-celled, 1 or 2-seeded by abortion ; seeds 
pendulous; spermodermis simple; perisperm fleshy; cor- 
culum straight, central, nearly as long as the perisperm ; 
cotyledons leaflike; radicle above, plumule inconspicuous. 
— Leaves opposite, simple; flowers racemose or panicled, 
terminal; peduncles opposite, bracteated. 
153. LIGUSTRUM. Pliny. Privet. 
Calyx very small, 4-toothed ; tube of the corolla short ; 
limb 4-lobed, spreading: stamens 2; berry 1 or 2-celled, 
2 or 4-seeded, black.— Flowers panicled, terminal. 
Ligustrum vulgare. Common privet. 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptical, mucronate; panicle con- 
tracted. 
Ligustrunj, Raii Syn. 465, 1 ; Ger. era. 1594. 
Ligustrum vulgare, Park. 1446; Lin. S. P. 10. 
. Prim-print. Print. 
Woods and hedges in damp gravelly soils ; shrubby s 
May and June. 
