Verbena (ver ben a)

[NL. (Tournefort, 1700; earlier in Brünfels, 1530), Gorg. You shall be verberated, and reverberated. Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5. Bosom-quarrels that verberate and wound his soul. Abp. Sancroft, Modern Policies, § 1. verbosity ver be ratio ( n- ), a beating, chastisement, Riding or walking against great winds is a great exercise, the effects of which are redne and inflammation; all the effects of a soft pre or verberation. Arbuthnot , On Air. Distinguishing verberation , which was accompanied with pain, from pulsation, which was attended with none. Black stone , Com., III. viii. 2. The impulse of a body which causes sound. Verbesina (ver-bē-sinä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), altered from Verbena on account of a resemblance in the leaves of the original species.] A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Heli anthoideæ, type of the subtribe Verbesineæ. It is characterized by small or middle-sized corymbose flower heads (sometimes large, solitary, and long-peduncled) with the rays fertile or rarely lacking, and by achenes laterally compre ed, distinctly two-winged, sometimes ciliate, and usually awned by a pappus of two rigid or slender bristles. There are about 55 species, natives of warm parts of America, occurring from the Argentine Republic to Mexico, and with 9 species in the southern United States, one yellow-flowered species, V. occidental is, and perhaps also the white-flowered V. Virginica, extending north into Pennsylvania. A few species are naturalized in the Old World. They are herbs or sometimes shrubby, a few becoming small trees of about 20 feet in height, and are known as crown - beard. Their leaves are usually toothed and opposite, and the petioles decurrent. The flower heads are usually yellow; after blo oming, they are apt to become ovoid or globose by the elevation of a conical receptacle. V. encelioides of Texas, Arizona, and Mexico, now widely dispersed through warm regions, is cultivated for its yellow flowers, sometimes under the name of Ximenesia.