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Z A P P A N IA nodiflora; vur. rosea.
Pink-flowered Knotted Zappania.
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Zappania nodiflora. B rown prodr. 1 . p. 514. Pursh fl. amer. 2. » 417
P o i r e t i n L a m .d i e t .8 .p .8 3 9 . «'«er. p. /.
Verbena nodiflora Xfon. xp p/. l p 28. fl. zeyl. p. 399. mvAX sp. pi. 1 .
xr f 'i - S i o a r t z o b s .p .n . A it. hort. kew. 4. p. 39
V. iobis verticaliter ovatis, spicis globosis. Lin n . hort. eliff. p. 11
V. foliis verticaliter ovatis, spicis solitariis ovatis. R o y . lugdb. p. 327
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r 2 5 ^ / . 8 viridibus. Moris, hist. 3. p. 419. seet. 11.
fi. rosea, floribus roséis, fauce coroll® aureo.
Verbena nodiflora. Sm ith fl . grcee. Sibth. t. 553.
V. nodiflora, capite oblongo. B a rr. ie. t. 855.
V. nodiflora. B au h . p in . p. 269. hist. 3. p . 444.
Sherardia repens nodiflora. Vaili, sex. p . 49.
Plant perennial, creeping, forming a close flat patch, re-
semhhng a good deal in hahit Veronica officinalis, clothed with
very short, adpressed silky hairs. Roots long, white, ahout
the thickness of ordinary packthread, and slightly branched
round knotty, creeping, scarcely a span long.' Leaves
opposite, stalked, cuneately ovate, coriaceous, veinless, about
half an inch ong, toothed at the apex, entire, and attenuated
towards the base. Footstalks scarcely half the length of the
leaves, channelled above. Pei/imcfc axillary, solitary erect
cylindrical, an inch long, rather thicker at the apex ’ Spike
capitate, rounded, scarcely half an inch long. Bractes ovate
mucronate, bluntly keeled, silky, green, closely imbricated
c y y pale green, membranous, compressed, transversely
bilabiate, or rather 2-valved, valves collateral, with a fringed
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