J58 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophularia. 



times only biennial, or annual. Stem tall, erect, more or 

 less acutely quadrangular, leafy, pannicled. Leaves oppo- 

 site, serrated, simple, or variously pinnatifid, or pinnate. 

 Fl. numerous, usually with dark-coloured lips ; some- 

 times altogether yellow. 



1 . S. nodosa. Knotty-rooted Figwort. 



Leaves heart-shaped, acute ; three-ribbed at the base. Stem 

 sharp-edged. Hoot tuberous. 



S. nodosa. Linn. Sp. PL863. mUd.v.3.270. Fl. Br. 663. Engl 

 Dot. V. 22. t. 1544. Hook. Scot. 189. Gunn. Norveg. v. 2. 87. 

 H. 732. t. 4./. I — 3 ; not correct. 



S. n. 326. Hall. Hist. v.\.l4l. 



S. major. Raii Sijn. *283. Ger.Em,7\6.f. Brunf. Herb.vA. 

 215./. 213. 



Scrophularia. Matth. Valgr.v.2.A7A.f. Camer.Epit.S66.f. 

 Riv. Monop. Jrr. t. \07.f. I. 



S. minor. Riv. Monop. Irr. append./. 



Galeopsis. Fuchs. Hist. 193./. 194. 



Brown Figwort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 35./. 9. 



/3. Scrophularia major, caulibus foliis et floribus viridibus, Buhart 

 in Raii Si/n. *283. 



In hedges, woods, and thickets. 



Perennial. July. 



Herbage nearly or quite smooth, fetid like Elder, when bruised. 

 Root whitish, tuberous, beset with fleshy knobs. These knobs 

 disappear when the plant comes to perfection. See Fagon's letter 

 to Boccone. Bocc. RMierches et Obs. 12mo. 100. Stem 2 or 3 

 feet high, nearly simple, leafy, acutely quadrangular, smooth. 

 Leaves stalked, ovate-oblong, acute, sharply and unequally ser- 

 rated ; heart-shaped at the base, where they are cut away, as it 

 were, to the 2 small lateral ribs. Flower-stalks axillary and ter- 

 minal, forked, angular, glandular, forming a panicled, leafy 

 chislcr. Bracteas lanceolate. Fl. a little droo))ing. Cat. smooth. 

 Cor. of a dull green, with a livid purple lip. G/p5. ovate-oblong, 



jS, found by Bobart at Cumner, near Oxford, should seem to be a 

 paler-flowered variety, in consequence perhaps of a more shady 

 situation. 



S. nodosa, having been taken for the Galeopsis of Dioscorides, 

 which is really S. peregrlna, and though celebrated for its use in 

 scrofulous disorders, has no tuberous root, it may not be correct 

 to suppose this sort of root first recommended our plant to me- 

 dical use, or was the origin of the generic name. If however 

 such were the case, it would not be without example in the his- 

 tory of medicine. 



