The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Venidium (To the species described on p)

Verbena
Verbena

To the species described on p. 141, the following should now be added: V. fugax (fugacious). fl.-heads 1 1/2in. in diameter; ray bright orange, a little paler beneath; disk blackish. l., radical ones petiolate, elliptic, obtuse, sinuate, lobed, or sub-lyrate, generally without auricles; upper ones sessile, sometimes slightly auricled at base, entire or sinuate-toothed, the lower ones somewhat pandurate. h. 1 1/2ft. 1887. Stem, leaves, and involucral scales shortly hairy.

V. hirsutum (hairy). fl.-heads 1 1/2in. to 1 3/4in. in diameter; ray bright orange-yellow, but not so deep as in V. fugax; disk blackish. l. lyrate-pinnatifld; radical ones petiolate, with large, broadly elliptic-oblong, deeply lobed, terminal lobes, the petioles scarcely or not at all auricled; uppermost ones much smaller, sessile, pinnatifld. h. 10in. to 12in. Stem. leaves, and outer involucral scales hairy.

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