100 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Stachys. 



Gerarde celebrates this herb as a vulnerary, and his whole account 

 of its virtues is worth reading for amusement, if not instruction. 



4. S. germanica. Downy Woundwort. 



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

 woolly beneath. Stem woolly, erect. 



5. germanica. Lhin.Sp. PL 812. lVilld.v.S.99. Fl. Br. 634. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 1 2. t. 829. Fl. Dan. t. 684. Jacq. Austr. t.3\9. 



S. n. 255. Hall. Hist. V. I. 112. 



Stachys. Fuchs. Hist. 766. f. 



S. Fuchsii. Raii Syn. 239. Ger. Em. 695. f. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 

 p. 2. 319./. 320. 



S. montana, Riv.Monop Irr. t. 27./. 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. Hemsted on a hill 2 miles from Bedford. 



Perennial. September. 



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

 densely clothed with soft, white, woolly 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 j lower with close matted wool. 

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

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

 Cor. light purple ; the upper lip cloven, shaggy 3 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. PIS\4. Willd.v. 3. 106. Fl. Br. 634. 

 Engl. Bof.v. ifit. 1 154. Curt. Lond.fasc.4. t.U. Hook. Scot. 

 183. Fl.Dan.t.oS?. 



S. arvensis minima, Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 27. f. 2. 



Trixago n. 23 1 . Hall. Hist, r . 1 . 1 1 . 



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



Round Iron Wort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 33./ 1 2. 



In gravelly, sandy or chalky fields, very general. 



Annual. July, 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. 



