DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophulai ia. 139 



2. S. aquatica. Water Figwoit. Water Betony. 



Leaves lieart-shaped, bliuitish, ou decurrent footslalks. 

 Stem winged. Root fibrous. 



S. aquatica. Linn. Sp. PL 864. Wilhl v. 3. 270. Fl. Br. 663. Engl. 

 Bot.v.\2.t.'dDA. Curt. Lond.f CISC. b. t.AA. IJook. Scot. IW. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 507. Ehrh. PL 'O^i 156. 



S. n. 325 . Hull. Hist. i'. 1 . ] 4 1 . 



S, aquatica major. Raii Syn. *283. 



S. caule alato. Biv. Monop. Irr. append./. 



S. foemina. Camer. Epit. 867./. 



Betonica aquatica. Ger. Em. 7 15./". 



In watery places, the margins of pools and rivers, anil wtt mea- 

 dows. Very rare in Scotland. 



Perennial. July. 



Root entirely fibrous. Herb quite smooth, fetid, of a deep shining 

 green. Stem taller than the last, straight, leafy, nearly simple, 

 winged in some degree at the 4 angles. Leaves copiously and 

 finely serrated, veiny, ovate-oblong ; heart-shaped at the base, 

 and running down the edges of the /oo^Aifl/As,- their lateral ribs 

 not reaching to the margin of the leaf. Cluster of many forked 

 branches, bearing numerous Jiowers, whose tube is green, the 

 limb of a dark blood-red, more conspicuous than in -S. nodosa. 

 Capsule globular. 



3. S. Scorodonia. Balm-leaved Figwort. 



Leaves heart-shaped, doubly serrated ; downy beneatli. 

 Cluster leafy. 



S. Scorodonia. Linn. Sp. PL 864. Willd. v. 3. 27 1 . FL Br. 664. 

 Engl. Bol. v.3\.L 2209. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 15.9. 



S. Scordii folio. GrisL Lusit.75. 



S. Scorodonia foliis. Moris, v. 2. 482. sect. 5. t. 35. Pluk. Al- 

 mag.33S. Phyt. L50.f.5. Raii Syn.*2b3. 



Sage Figwort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 35./. 11. 



On the banks of rivulets in the south, very rare. 



Between the port and St. Hilary, Jersey. Sherard. About St. Ives, 

 Cornwall, plentifully, near the sea shore. Mr, E. Lhwyd; and 

 Huds. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Stems about a yard high, leafy, branched, bluntly quadrangular, 

 clothed with minute, soft, spreading hairs. Leaves downy in 

 like manner underneath, stalked, heart-shaped and 3-ribbed at 

 the base, veiny, doubly serrated ; the serratures and points of 

 those which accompany the flowers most acute. Fl. on axillary, 

 forked, downy stalks, composing a long leafy cluster. Tube of 

 the corolla paie ; lower lip (turned uppermost) dull purple, the 

 interior lobe greenii-h. Caps, ovate, smooth. Calyx downy. 



