Ce? 
VERTICILLATE. 
BETONICA OFFICINALIS. _ WOOD BETONY. 
SYNONYMA. Betonica. Pharm. Geoff. iii, 183. Dale. 151. 
Alfion. ii. 88. Lewis. 146. Edinb. New Difp. 146. Murray. 
zi. 158.  Bergius. 524. Cullen. ii. 145. Betonica purpurea. 
Bauh. Pin. 235. Gerard. Emac. 714. Raii. Synop. 238. Hall. 
Stirp. Helv. 264. Park. Theat. 238. B. officinalis. Hudfon. 
Flor. Ang. 258. Withering. Bot, Arr. 611. Ic. Flor. Dan, 726. 
Flor. Lond. 154. 
Didynamia Gymnofpermia. Lin. Gen, Plant. 718. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. ariftatus. Corolla lab. faper. adfcendens, planiufculum. 
Tubus cylindricus. 
Sp. Ch. BB. fpica interrupta, corollarum labii Jacinia intermedia 
emarginata. : : 
ROOT perennial, tapering, woody, brownith, furnifhed: with 
long white fibres. Stalks ufually more than a foot in height, erect, . 
{quare, fimple, channelled towards the top, nearer the bafe hairy. 
Lower leaves on footftalks, cordate, or lance-fhaped, notched, obtufe, 
veiny, fomewhat hairy, and wrinkled: upper leaves narrower, op+ 
noite, reflexed. . Flowers purple, in {pikes compofed of feveral 
whorls. Brattex’ abundant, placed under the flowers, of the lengtit 
of the calyx. Calyx permanent, tubular, divided at the edge into 
five narrow teeth. Corolla manopetalous; tube longer than the 
calyx, bending inwards, below fmooth and white, above purple, 
downy: upper lip roundifh, entire, ere; lower one divided into 
three fegments, of which the middle one is the broadeft. Filaments 
four, 
