DIDYNAMIA— GViMNOSPERMlA. Stachys. 101 



4. S. germanlca. Downy Woundwort. 



Many flowers in a whorl. Leaves crenate, densely silkv; 

 woolly beneath. Stem woolly, erect. 



5. germanica. Linn. Sp. PL SI 2. mihJ. v. 3. 99. Fl. Br. G34. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 829. FL Dan. t. G84. Jacq. Ausir. ^ 319. 



S. n. 255. HalL Hist. v. 1. 112. 



Stachys. Fiichs. Hist. 7G6.f. 



S. Fuchsii. Rail Sijn. 239. Ger. Em. 695./. Banh. Hist. v. 3. 

 p. 2. 319./. 320. 



S. montana. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.27.f. 1. 



S. alba latifolia major. BarreL Ic. t. 297. 



In fields, hedges, and by road sides, on a limestone soil, but rare. 



Chiefly confined to Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. Frequent about 

 Woodstock and Witney. The present Bishop of Carlisle ob- 

 served it, in great plenty, in the corn-fields at Brizenorton ; the 

 Rev. Dr. Abbot on Luton downs, Bedfordshire ; and the Rev. 

 J. Hempsted on a hill 2 miles from Bedford. 



Perennial. September. 



Roots tufted. Stems quite erect, 2 feet high, leafy, unbranched, 

 densely clothed with soft, white, \voolly hairs pointing down- 

 ward. Leaves stalked, ovate, acute, copiously crenate, reti- 

 culated with numerous veins; the upper side very thickly co- 

 vered with white silky hairs ; lower with close matted wool. 

 Whorls numerous, many-flowered, axillary; the upper ones 

 crowded into a leafy spike. Bracteas and cahjx very woolly. 

 Cor. light purple ; the upper lip cloven, shaggy ; palate striped 

 with white. Seeds oval, blackish, smooth. 



5. S. arvensis. Corn Woundwort. 



Six flowers in a whorl. Stem weak. Leaves heart-shaped, 

 obtuse, crenate, slightly hairy. 



S. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL 814. fVilld. v. 3. lOG. FL Br. 634. 

 EngL Bot. V. \7.t. 1 154. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t.4l. Hook. Scot. 

 183. FL Dan. t.587. 



S. arvensis minima. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 27./. 2. 



Trixago n. 23 1 . HalL Hist. v. 1 . 101. 



Sidcritis humilis, lato obtuso folio. Raii Syn. 242. 



Round Iron Wort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 33/ 12. 



In gravelly, sandy or chalky fields, very general. 



Annual. Julij, August. 



Root small, fibrous. Herbage green, slightly hairy. Stem branch- 

 ed, weak, recumbent, or ascending, either hairy or smooth. 

 Leaves on short stalks, ovate, or slightly heart-shaped, bluntish, 

 crenate, hardly an inch long ; three-ribbed at the base. Whorls 

 axillary, crowded towards the to])s of the branches. Cal. hairy. 

 Cor. snudl, light purple, with a while and spotted palate ^ its 



