ed it into our gardens in the early part of the spring of 
the present year. It is quite hardy, flowering in July and 
August, and is a desirable acquisition to our borders. 
Descr. ‘ Perennial and annual,’”’ according to Mr. Nut- 
tart. Stem a foot or more long, very obscurely four-sided, 
downy. Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, remotely and acutely 
serrated, narrower and ciliated and tapering into a footstalk 
at the base, marked with several nerves which run almost 
parallel with the midrib. Whorls several, closely crowded 
in the axils of the upper pairs of leaves, and accompanied 
by several broadly ovate, strongly aristate, downy bracteas, 
forming a kind of involucre. Calyx downy, tubular, stria- 
ted, the mouth closed with dense white hairs: teeth subu- 
late, brown, nearly as long as the tube, bearing and termi- 
nated by a little tuft of hairs. Corolla pale rose-coloured. 
Upper lip arched, sharply keeled at the back, two-toothed 
at the apex : lower one trifid, with the sides much reflexed, 
the disk spotted with purple. Filaments of the stamens gla- 
brous. Cells of the anther narrow, spreading. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx with the tuft of white hairs at the mouth :— 
magnified. 
