ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VERBENA . XIV Harold N. Moldenke VERBENA HALEI Small Additional synonymy: Verbena halii Small ex Moldenke, Phytolo-gia 36: U7, in syn. 1977. Additional & emended bibliography: Loss., Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 53« 7U. 1912$ G. W. Thomas, Tex. PI. Ecolog. Summ. 78. 1969$ Bolkh., Orif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chrom. Numb. Flow. PI., imp. 1, 717 (1969) and Imp. 2, 717. 197U$ [Bard], Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 102: U31. 1975 J E. H. Jordan, Checklist Organ Pipe Cact. Natl. Mon. 7. 197$ } Moldenke, Phytologia 30: Ui2— li*3 & 159 (1975) and 31: 375, 377, & 378. 1975} Perkins, Estes, & Thorp, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 102: 19U— 198. 1975$ Anon., Biol. Abstr. 61: AC1.732. 1976$ Hurd & Lindl., Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 220: 10. 1976$ Ziegler & Sohmer, Contrib. Herb. Univ. Wise LaCrosse 13: 16. 1976; Moldenke, Phytologia 3kt 20, 250, 251, 270, 4 279 (1976) and 36: hi, 128, 13U, 135, 1U3, 152, & 157. 1977$ A. L. Moldenke, Phytologia 36: 87. 1977. Lewis and his associates encountered this plant along a stream-side in Coahuila. Demaree reports it as "common" on low ridges, at 670 feet altitude, in Texas. The Ellisons assert that it was "abundant in local population in full sun in sandy soil with V. brasiliensis , no hybridization evident", the corolla "bluish-lavender" . Other recent collectors refer to this plant as an upright per-ennial herb, 2 feet tall, and have encountered it in old rice fields, in sandy soil along roadsides, in open dry gravelly soils on railroad embankments, in "nearly level stiff or buckshot soils", on the river side of levees, in sandy dry open areas, and in "nearly level to gently sloping front lands", at 375 meters altitude. Brown refers to it as common on road shoulders in marshes} Allen found it abundant in open areas with V. tenuis ecta and Cynodoni Montz reports it infrequent on levee spillways with Ambrosia $ and Bougere found it "not abundant, in small compact patches on roadsides". A jour found it "abundant in very dry soil in shade with a lot of sedges and grasses". The corollas are said to have been "deep-blue" on Ajour 11, "lavender" on Bougere 1087 . Corroll 4 Johnston 22127 , and Luke s.n. . "blue" on Allen 675 & 990 . and" "Correll & Correll 121+21 , "purple" on Curry , Martin . & Allen U37 , and "purple to lavender" on Killmer 3j> . Wendt and his associates found it growing "in sa-line and probably gypsiferous fine alluvial soil in matorral des-6rtico inerme y con espinos laterales with fine mineralized allu-vial soil in bajada", growing with Prosopis glandulosa , Koeber-llnia spinosa , Condalla, Lycium . and Selinocarpus . Eger reports it common "in full sun in sandy soil of pine woods with Oxalis . Aster , and Lobelia " . Higgins found it among "mixed grassland 216
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