710 
the year, and the decayed flower spikes. In dry gravelly, or 
poor soil its flowers have a more powerful odour, and the 
severity of our winters has little effect on it; while in rich 
garden soil, although it grows strongly, it is apt to be killed, 
and the flowers have less perfume. 
True Lavender. Fl. July, Sept. 
feet. 
6 L.srica (D. C. fl. fr. 5. p. 897.) leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
somewhat spatulate, quite entire, narrowed a long way at the 
base, with somewhat revolute margins, hoary on both surfaces ; 
spikes somewhat interrupted ; whorls 6-10-flowered ; floral 
leaves lanceolate, or linear, all fertile: upper ones shorter than 
the calyxes; bracteas linear-subulate, shorter than the calyxes. 
h.H. Native of the South of Europe, and North of Africa, in 
the region of the Mediterranean. L. spica, 3, Lin. spec. 800. 
L. vulgaris, 9, Lam. fl. fr. 2. p. 403. L. latifolia, Vill. dauph. 
2.p. 363. L. spica, Mill. dict. no. 1.—Ger. emac. p. 588. f. 1, 
2,— Park. theatr. p. 73. f. 1. Calyxes bluish, —Corollas blue, 
rarely white. Habit of Z. véra, but more humble, and the 
aspect more hoary; the leaves at the base of the branches more 
crowded ; the spikes more dense and shorter: the floral leaves 
different in form, and the bracteas present. The flowers of both 
this and the preceding have a fragrant, agreeable smell, and 
a warm, pungent, bitterish taste; and this species yields by dis- 
tillation thrice as much essential oil as the preceding ; hence in 
the southern parts of France, where both kinds grow wild, this 
only is used for the distillation of what is called oil of spike. 
Spica, or Broad-leaved Lavender. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1568. 
Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
Cit- 1568. Shrub 1 to 2 
Secr. II. Prerdésracnys (from crepo», pteron, a wing; and 
craxvc, stachys, a spike.) Ging. hist. lav. p. 158. Benth. lab. 
p. 149. Floral leaves 1-flowered, opposite, disposed in a loose 
spike: the upper ones not comose. Calyx 13-nerved, sub-bila- 
biate; upper lip tridentate: middle tooth broader, not appendi- 
culate: lower lip bidentate.— Perennial herbs rather woody at 
the base. Leaves toothed, or deeply multifid. 
7 L. ngoruxDprEüLIA (Benth. lab. p. 150.) leaves petiolate, 
broad-ovate, deeply toothed, rounded at the base, glabrous on 
both surfaces ; spikes elongated, slender; flowers solitary, op- 
posite. b. G. Native of the Island of St. Nicolas, one of 
the Cape Verds. Habit and spike of Z. abrotanoides. Branches 
pubescent, or glabrous. Leaves 1 to 14 inch long. Calycine 
teeth lanceolate, acute. 
Round-leaved Lavender. Shrub. 
8 L. pryna’ra (Lin. fil. diss. lav. p. 55.) plant clothed with 
very short, hoary tomentum ; leaves pinnate, or bipinnate, or 
pinnatifid : lobes quite entire, obtuse, very blunt; floral leaves 
ovate, acutish ; spikes elongated, slender, usually by threes, 
hoary; flowers solitary, opposite. h. G. Native of the 
Canary Islands, on rocks by the sea-side. Jacq. icon. rar. 1. t. 
106. Curt. bot. mag. t. 401. Spike tetragonal, 2-3 inches 
long, loose. Floral leaves rather longer than the calyxes. Co- 
rollas purple; tube about twice as long as the calyx. 
Var. B, pubéscens (Benth. lab. p. 150.) plant less hoary ; 
spike more loose. h.G. L. formosa, Dietr. lex. naschtr. 4. 
ak p 1. p. 103. Ging. hist. lav. p. 153. 
innate-leaved Lavender. Fl. April Aug. : è 
Shrub 1 to 2 feet. E M dd 
9 L. ABROTANOIDES (Lam. dict. 3. p. 429.) green, rather 
pilose ; leaves bipinnate: lobes entire, bluntish ; floral leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, very acute; spikes elongated, slender, branch- 
ed; flowers solitary, opposite. h.G. Native of the Canary 
Islands. L. Canariénsis, Mill. dict. no. 4. L. élegans, Desf. 
hort. par. p. 71. Mirb. ann. mus. 15. t. 5. f. 5.— Comm. rar. 
t. 27. This differs from L. pinnata in its superfices being 
LABIATA. XVII. LAVANDULA. 
green, not hoary, in the stem being pubescent at the base, in 
the leaves being more deeply cut, in the segments being nar- 
rower, in the spikes being usually 5 together, longer, and more 
loose, and in the floral leaves being more acute. Corollas pur- 
ple, rarely white. 
Southernnood-like Lavender. 
Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
10 L. muLTÍFIDA (Lin. spec. p. 800.) green, pilose; stems 
leafy; leaves bipinnatifid: lobes rather cuneated, acute: floral 
leaves cordately dilated, acuminated, about equal in length to 
the calyxes; spike rather dense; calyxes tomentose. 4.G. 
Native of the South of Europe, and North of Africa, in the 
region of the Mediterranean.—Barrel. icon. 795.— Bauh. hist. 
3. p. 281. f. 2.—Lob. icon. 432. Very nearly allied to the 
preceding, but differs in the spikes being shorter, and usually 
simple, in the floral leaves being broad, and villous outside, and 
in the calyxes being tomentose, and in the peduncles being one- 
half shorter. Corollas purple, rarely white. 
Multifid-leaved Lavender. FI. July, Sept. Clt. 1597. Shrub 
14 foot. 
11 L. pusy’scens (Decaisne, in ann. sc. nat. par. 1834, 2. p. 
246.) hairy; stems strict; leaves pinnate: segments linear, 
entire, or a little cut; floral leaves membranous, about equal in 
length to the calyxes; spikes slender; flowers solitary, oppo- 
site. h.? G. Native on Mount Sinai, N. Bovè This 
species appears intermediate between JL. multifida and L. 
coronopif dlia, but differs in hairiness, in the stems being more 
leafy, in the spikes being more dense, and in the floral leaves 
being larger. 
Downy Lavender. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
12 L. cononopirorta (Poir. dict. 2. p. 308.) glabrous; stems 
nearly naked; leaves pinnate : segments linear, entire; floral 
leaves very short, ovate, very acute; spikes slender; flowers 
solitary, opposite, remote. h.? G. Native of the East of 
Africa, and West of Asia; in Egypt, near Val de L’ Egarement, 
in the desert of Suez, Delile; Persia, Burmann. Leaves 1-2 
inches long, rather fleshy. Calyx rather cinereous. Corolla 
bluish ; tube about twice as long as the calyx. 
Buckhorn-leaved Lavender. Shrub. 
Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1699. 
Secr. IV. Cuxréstacuys (from yarn, chaite, a head of hair; 
and eraxve, stachys, a spike.) Benth. in Wall. pl. asiat. rar. 2 
p.19. Lab. p. 151. Floral leaves 1-flowered, alternate, dis- 
posed in a rather loose branched spike: the upper ones not 
comose, Calyx 15-nerved, almost equally 5-toothed. Leaves 
deeply multifid. 
13 L. Burma’ywr (Benth. lab. p. 151.) clothed with fine 
pubescence; stems leafy; leaves bipinnate: segments linear; 
quite entire; floral leaves membranous, dilated at the base, se- 
taceously acuminated ; spikes rather dense; flowers solitary, 
alternate, approximate. %.? S. Native of the East Indies, 
Burmann, Klein, &c.; in the North of India, about Indor, 
Aurungabad, Drolulabad, and Ellora, Jacquemont. L. mutà- 
bile, Burm. ind. 126. icon. t. 38. f. 1. but not of Lin.  Byste- 
rópogon bipinnàtus, Roth. nov. spec. p. 225. Cheetéstachys 
multifida, Benth. in Wall. pl. rar. asiat. 2. p. 19. Stem herba- 
ceous, tetragonal. Margins of the segments of the leaves 
revolute. Spike generally branched. Corolla slender, exceed- 
ing the calyx. 
Burmann’s Lavender.  Pl.? 
Cult. _All the species of Lavender are of easy culture and 
propagation, increasing readily either by seeds or cuttings. 
vèra and L. spica are the only truly hardy species, all the 
rest requiring the protection of a greenhouse, or frame during 
winter. The LZ. vèra and L. spica abide longer in a dry, 
gravelly, or poor soil, than in a rich earth, although in such 
T 
