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VERBENA Aubletia. 
Rose Fervain. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI4A. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACE®, Jussieu in ann. du muséum. 7. 63. Brown 
prod. 510. 
VERBENA. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. limbo subbilabiato 5-lobo inzequali. 
Stam. non exserta. Stig. obtusum. Sem, 2-4 nuda, calyce persistente 
tecta. Juss. gen. 109, 
V. Aulbletia, assurgens: foliis varié dissectis: spicis solitariis, pedunculatis, 
imbricatis, grandifloris. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 13. 
Verbena Aubletia. Lin. suppl. 86. Jacg. hort. vindob. 2. 82. t. 176.° 
Hort. Kew, 1. 33. ed. 2. 4. 41. Curtis’s magaz. 308? Willd. Sp» pl. 1s 
119. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 415. 
Verbena Obletia. Reéizin act. stockholm. 1773. 144. te 5. 
Verbena Obletia. Medicus in act. palat. 3.194. t. 7. 
Verbena longiflora. Lamarck illustr. 1. 57. 
Obletia. /iozier journ. 1. 367. t. 2. 
Glandularia caroliniensis. Gmed. syst. nat. 2. 920. 
Anonymos caroliniensis. Walt. carol. 164. 
Buchnera canadensis. Linn. mant. 88. 
Erinus laciniatus. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 878. 
Lychnidea verbenx tenuifolize folio. Feuzllée tt. 8. 35. t. 25. 
Radix jibrosa perennis. Caulis herbaceus 4-gonus, hirsutus, infern? ras 
mosus, ramis subprostratis ad nodos inferiores radicantibus, pedalis ultraque. 
Fol. longiis breviisve petiolata, opposita, per paria distantia, patentissima, 
hirsuta, ovato-oblonga, lobato-laciniatoque-dissecta, acuminata, subtriuncialia, 
immerse nervosa, petiolum canaliculatum angustissimé decurrentia. Spica 
numerosa, imbricata, undique sparsa, paulatim se extendens, infra ob citd 
cadentes corollas squarrosa, supra corymboso-fastigiata ; bractes subbreviores 
calyce hirsute lineari-lanceolate. Cal. glanduloso-hirsutus, tubo corolla & 
brevior, lineari-tubulosus, plicato-pentagonus, dentibus subulatis, uno pluri- 
miim minore. Cor. uncialis, hypocrateriformis : tubus duplo profundior Fimbo, 
pubescens, pallidus, in faucem 4-plo breviorem pariim ampliorem abeuns ; limbus 
obliquo-rotatus, labio uno ultra medium 3-fido, lacinits cuneato-obcordatis, 
divergentibus, media submajore, labio altero } circa minore bifido, laciniis 
collaterali-convergentibus. Faux intis barbata, orificio pilis coronata. Fil. 
basi faucis inserta, par unum fere obsoletum. Germ. oblongum, 4-sulco-4< 
gonum angulis obtusis: stylus exsertus, clavato-filiformis, supra complanato+ 
dilatatus: stig. breve, difformi-bilobum, lobo uno acuto erecto, altero crassa 
obtuso depresso glanduloso, bast macula atrovirente notato. z 
The stock of this sample was imported from Carolina 
about seven years ago by Mr. Lyon, and has been considered 
in our gardens as specifically distinct from the plant of the 
above name, introduced from North America by Monsieur 
Richard in 1774, by some called perennial, by others bi- 
