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VERBENA paniculata. 
Panicled Vervain. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nai. ord. VERBENACER. 
VERBENA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 294. 
V. paniculata; caule scabro, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis inequa- 
liter serratis subtis venoso-reticulatis, spicis filiformibus corymboso-pani- 
culatis floribus imbricatis. 
V. paniculata. Lam. encycl. 8. 548. Pursh fl. Am. sept. 2. 416. Nutt, 
gen. Amer. 2. 40. Spreng. syst. 2. 748. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, quadratus, striatus, scaber. Folia scaberrima, 
ovato-lanceolata, inequaliter (nec grosse) serrata, acuta, subtis venis promi- 
nentibus reticulata. Spice filiformes, flexuose, nude, 4-5-uncias longe, 
corymboso-paniculate. Flores dense imbricati, in dentibus racheos sessiles. . 
Bractee rigide, subulate, scabre, calycibus breviores, bast vaginantes. 
Calyx tubulosus, 5-plicatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus minutis, subinequalibus. 
Corolla hypocrateriformis, collo tubi extus pubescente, limbo atro-ceruleo, ore 
intensiore, laciniis obtusis. Stamina 4, breviter pedicellata. 
A hardy perennial, native, according to Pursh, of the 
natural meadows of the high mountains of Virginia and 
Carolina, where it flowers during July and August, growing 
from 4 to 6 feet high. Our drawing was made at the 
Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Co., in September 
1826. 
Pursh was evidently well acquainted with this plant, 
which seems to have been considered doubtful by Mr. 
Nuttall, who asks (gen. 2. 40.) whether his V. hastata 
6. oblongifolia may not be V. paniculata; adding, ‘‘ but the 
flowers are not imbricated, nor in the least corymbose.” 
It is obvious, from our figure and description, that the plant 
had been rightly described in both these respects. In fact, 
V. paniculata is as distinct from all other Verbenas as 
V. bonariensis itself. 
