LAMIACEAE 1155 
10. PRUNELLA L. Perennial erect or diffuse herbs. Leaf-blades 
tcothed or laciniate. Flowers mostly in compact panicles. Calyx 2-lipped: 
upper lip with 3 broad lobes: lower lip with 2 narrow lobes. Corolla 2-lipped: 
upper lip arched: lower lip with the broad middle lobe generally toothed. 
Filaments relatively long, 2 of them i at the apex. [Brunella L.]—About 
5 species, widely distributed.—SELF-HEALS. HEALS-ALLS. BLUE-CURLS 
Leaf-blades entire or shallowly toothed: calyx 10—11 mm. long; lobes of the lower 
lip subulate tipped. 1. P. vulgaris. 
Leaf-blades, at least the upper ones, pinnatifid: calyx 8-9 mm. 
long; lobes of the lower lip lanceolate. 2. P. laciniata. 
"m hi vulgaris L. Stem 0.5-4 dm. long: leaf-blades ovate, elliptic, n lanceo- 
, 2—7.5 em. long, un o bracts mostly reniform: ca lyx 10-11 mm. long; 
corolla 
i. of the upper lip m nate 
purple or ibn. pice) 14.18 m. long: 
nutlets about — (CARPENTER- 
long. 
—Fields, “thickets = waste-places, 
U; S. and an., Nat pr.-fall.— 
Also called SNAKEWEED mon the belief that 
a snake hole is hidden under the plant. 
a L. Plant similar to P. 
vulgaris in d but od Lan e 
blades of the m-lea S pin 
natifid: eor ola. mc or pu e e 
mer and lawns, various province S, N. C. 
Nat. of 
u 
any forms in the above two species. 
11. MACBRIDEA Ell Perennial erect herbs. Leaf-blades entire or 
wers in axillary clustered broad- leafed eymes. Calyx strongly 2- 
r 
2-lipped: upper lip arching: lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4: anthers pubescent. 
—Two species. 
Corolla na the upper lip notehed; lateral lobes of the lower lip as Mere the 
middle 1; 
Corolla rose-purple, a the upper lip a lateral lobes of the 
lower lip much narrower than the middle 2. M. pulchra. 
1. M. alba Chapm. Stem 3-5 dm. tall, simply or rarely branched: leaf-blades 
dm spatula to d rather fleshy, 2-8 em. long, obtuse, undulate or 
and, the lower Pho ith margined peti- AON 
Uie the ees sile: ec ieles few flow- 
ered: braets elliptic- ovate i orbieular, ob- 
His ds very short: calyx becoming 
10— bi ong, glabrous or cus so; lobes 
about as um ng as the tube, the larger ones Ù 
T it b whi te, 2. 3 cm 
long the upper lip hooded, near rly e ect, the 
ied lip spreading, the lobes tonc ee a or 
early truncate ——Pineland swamps and low 
oui es, N Fla.—Sum 
2. M. pulchra Ell. Stem 3-6 dm. tall, usu- 
al 
elliptic, 4-8 cm. long, acute or acumin 
both ends, undulate or repand-serrate, the 
