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rugged, serrate; uppermost alternate.—Native of South 
America. 
20. Verbena aubletia, or cut-leaved rose vervain.—Spikes 
loose, solitary ; leaves trifid, gashed.—Native of America. 
21. Verbena spuria, or Canadian vervain.—Spikes fili¬ 
form ; leaves multifid-laciniate; stems numerous. Root bi¬ 
ennial.—Native of America. 
22. Verbena officinalis, or common vervain.—Spikes 
filiform, panicled ; leaves multifid-laciniate ; stem subsolita¬ 
ry.—Native of Europe, Barbary, China, Cochinchina and 
Japan. The Portugal variety, noticed by Tournefort, is 
taller, the leaves broader, and the flowers larger. Mr. Miller 
does not think it specially different from the common sort. 
23. Verbena supina, or trailing vervain.—Spikes filiform, 
solitary; leaves bipinnatifid.—Native of Spain, Portugal and 
Algiers. 
24. Verbena Americana, or Panama vervain.—Spikes 
fleshy, almost naked; leaves ovate, obtuse, indistinctly cre- 
nate, petioled. Annual. 
25. Verbena Senegalensis, or Senegal vervain.—Spikes 
shorter; leaves ovate, serrate, hoary underneath. Perennial. 
26. Verbena fruticosa, or shrubby vervain. — Spikes 
round; leaves ovate, serrate; stem shrubby, branched; 
three or four feet high. 
27. Verbena augustifolia, or narrow-leaved vervain.— 
Spikes fleshy, almost naked ; leaves linear-lanceolate, indis¬ 
tinctly serrate. Annual. 
28. Verbena rugosa, or wrinkle-leaved vervain.—Spikes 
ovate; leaves roundish, serrate and wrinkled ; stem shrubby, 
branched. Thisand the four preceding are from America. 
Propagation and Culture. —Those being natives of hot 
climates (chiefly South America and the West Indian 
islands), require care aud protection. The seeds should be 
sown upon a hot-bed early in the spring, and when the 
plants are fit to move, they should be each transplanted into 
a separate small pot, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed, to 
bring them forward, shading them in the day-time with mats 
until they have taken new root, and then treating them as 
other tender plants from the same countries. All the others 
may be treated as hardy annuals or biennials, except Verbena 
triphylla, which is increased by cutting. 
VERBENICO, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in the 
island of Veglia, on the canal of Morlachia; 22 miles south¬ 
east of Fiume. 
VERBESINA [corrupted or distorted from forbesina, 
which I suppose is from <po^p, food, from <peg€a, to feed or 
nourish], in Botany, a genus of the class syngenesia, order 
polygamia superfiua, natural order of composite oppositi- 
foliae, corymbiferae (Juss .)—Generic Character. Calyx: 
common concave; leaflets oblong, channelled-concave, 
erect, common equal, in a double row. Corolla: com¬ 
pound, radiate; corollets hermaphrodite, many, in the disk ; 
females about five in the ray. Proper of the hermaphrodite 
funnel-form, five-toothed, erect. Female ligulate, trifid and 
wide or simple and very narrow. Stamina in the herma¬ 
phrodites: filaments five, capillary, very short. Anthers 
cylindrical, tubular. Pistil of the hermaphrodite: germ 
somewhat oblong. Style filiform, length of the stamens. 
Stigmas two, reflexed. In the females: germ somewhat ob¬ 
long; style filiform, length of the hermaphrodite; stigmas 
two, reflexed. Pericarp none; calyx unchanged. Seeds in 
the hermaphrodites solitary, thickish, angular; pappus of 
two awl-shaped unequal awns. In the females very like the 
others. Receptacle chaffy .—Essential Character. Calyx 
in a double row. Florets of the ray about five. Pappus 
awned.. Receptacle chaffy. 
1. Verbesina alata, or wing-stalked verbesina.—Leaves 
alternate, decurrent, waved, obtuse. This is an herbaceous 
plant, with an upright stem about two feet high, subdivided, 
winged, rough-haired. Branches alternate, erect, axillary. 
—Native of South America, and the islands; common in Ja¬ 
maica, Curassao, Surinam, &c. 
2. Verbesina Chinensis, or Chinese verbesina.—Leaves 
alternate, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, serrate. This is a 
shrub,—Found in China by Osbeck. 
3. Verbesina Virginica, or Virginian verbesina.—Leaves 
alternate, lanceolate, petioled; flowers corymbed.—Native 
of Virginia, 
4. Verbesina pinnatifida, or pinnatifid-leaved verbesina.— 
Leaves alternate, pinnatind.—Native of Jamaica. 
5. Verbesina dichotoma, or forked verbesina.—Leaves 
opposite, ovate, tomentose, petioled; stem dichotomous at 
top; the outmost internode compressed. 
6. Verbesina biflora, or two-flowered verbesina.—Leaves 
opposite, oblong-ovate, triple-nerved, acuminate, serrate; 
peduncles double, two-flowered.—Native of the East Indies. 
7. Verbesina calendulacea.—Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 
bluntish; peduncles long, one-flowered; calyxes simple.— 
Native of the East Indies, and China near Canton. 
8. Verbesina nodiflora, or sessile-flowered verbesina.— 
Leaves opposite, ovate, serrate; calyxes oblong, sessile; 
cauline lateral. Root annual.—Native of the West Indies. 
9. Verbesina fruticosa, or shrubby verbesina.—Leaves 
opposite, ovate, serrate; petioled; stem shrubby. This rises 
with a shrubby stalk seven or eight feet high. Leaves deeply 
serrate and cut somewhat like those of the ilex or evergreen 
oak.—Native of the West Indies. 
10. Verbesina gigantea, or tree verbesina.—Leaves alter¬ 
nate, deeply pinnatifid; stem shrubby.—Native of the West 
Indies. 
11. Verbesina mutica.—Leaves trifid-laciniate, serrate; 
stem creeping. Root annual.-—Native of the West Indies, 
in moist pastures. 
12. VerbesinaBosvallea.—Leaves multifid-capillary; stems 
prostrate; florets six; female one.—Native of the East Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds upon a mode¬ 
rate hot bed in the spring, and when the plants are fit to re¬ 
move, transplant them on to a fresh hot-bed to bring them 
forward; shading them till they have taken new root, and 
then treating them in the same way as other tender annual 
plants; taking care not to draw them up too weak. 
To VE'RBERATE, v. a. [ verbero, Latin.] To beat; 
to strike.—Bosom-quarrels that verberate and wound his 
soul. Alp. Bancroft. 
VERBERA'TION,.?. Blows; beating.—Riding or walk¬ 
ing against great winds is a great exercise, the effects of 
which are redness and inflammation; all the effects of a 
soft press or verberation. Arbuthnot. 
VERBERIE, a small town in the north of France, situated 
on the Oise ; 9 miles south-west of Compeigne. 
VE'RBIAGE, s. Verbosity; much empty writing or 
discourse.—I thought what 1 read of it •verbiage, but upon 
Mr. Harris’s recommendation, I will read a play. Johnson . 
VERBICZE, a small town of Hungary, on the Waagg; 31 
miles north-north-east of Neusohl. 
VERBO, or Wereowe, or Urbau, a small town of the 
north-west of Hungary; 17 miles north of Tyrnau, and 40 
north-north-east of Presburg. 
VERBO'SE, adj. [ verlosus, Latin.] Exuberant in words £ 
prolix; tedious by multiplicity of words. 
Let envy 
Ill-judging and verbose, from Lethe's lake, 
Draw tuns unmeasurable. Prior. 
VERBOSITY, s. \yerbosite, French.] Exuberance of 
words; much empty talk. 
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity 
Finer than the staple of his argument. Sha/cspeare . 
VERCEL, a small town in the east of France, department 
of the Doubs; 14 miles west of Bauwe, and 20 east of Be- 
sanqon. 
VERCELLI, a district or province in the north-west of 
Italy, in Piedmont, with an extent of nearly 600 square 
miles, and a population of about 100,000. The chief rivers 
are the Sesia, the Elvo, and the Cervo. 
VERCELLI, a considerable town in the north-west of 
Italy, the capital of the Piedmontese district of the same 
name. Its fortifications, at one time considerable, were 
destroyed by the FYench in 1704 ; 12 miles north of Casale, 
and 40 east-north-east of Turin. 
VERCHALURIA, 
