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BETONICA INCANA. Rose conoureD Berony. 
RRR ENE eet eee EK 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. | 
Cal. aristatus. Corolle lab. super. adscendens, planinseu~ 
Jum ;. tubus cylindricus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
‘Beronrca incana ; spica interrupta, corollarum galea: bifida ; 
lacinia intermedia Jabii inferioris crenata, tubo tomentose. 
incurvo. Att. Hort. Kew. ed. I. 2. p. 299. Edit. alt. 
3. p. 396. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 94. Persoon Syn. 2. 
p. 123. Lam. et Decand. Fl. Frang. 6. p. 400. 
Beronica incana foliis lanceolatis obtusis incanis, spica florum. 
crassiori. Mill. Dict. ed. 8. n. 5. 
Berontca italica incana flore carneo. Barr. Ic. 340. 
Desc. Leaves ovate-cordate, crenate, obtuse, rugose, villous: 
and palish underneath, but scarcely hoary, as its name would. 
import, petioled: superior ones sessile at the base of the spike, 
which is sometimes interrupted, sometimes not, oval, dense. 
Bractes lanceolate, ciliate. Flowers bright flesh or rose- 
coloured: wpper-lip bifid, intermediate lobe of the lower lip 
large crenulate, undulate ; side-lobes patent. Stamens when 
deflorate, reflected to the sides as in Sracuys. Calyx 
frequently 7-cleft: teeth mucronate and pungent. 
This species, first named and characterized by Pump 
Miter, was taken up in the first edition of Arron’s Hortus 
Kewensis, and thence adopted by Witpenow and. PErsoon. 
Italy is assigned by Mrnuer as its native country ; and it has 
been found also in woods near Nantes by M. Hecror, and is ~ 
admitted into the French Flora. 
Beronica incana is a hardy perennial ; propagated by 
seeds or by parting its roots in the autumn; flowers in June, 
July, and August. Communicated by N. S. Hopson, Esq. 
of Bury St. Edmund’s in 1816. | 
