114 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Prunella. 



Gratiola latifolia. Ger. Em. 581./. 



Small Hood-Mint. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 34. /. 1 1 . 



On moist heaths^ in a gravelly soil, less common than the last. 



Perennial. Julij, August. 



More branched than the preceding, and scarcely one third its size. 

 Leaves broader, not at all wrinkled ; either quite entire, or di- 

 lated and notched at the base, so as to approach a hastate form. 

 Fl. not half so large as in S. galericulata, of a delicate pink co- 

 lour, rarely inclining to blue J the lower lip white, dotted with red. 



302. PRUNELLA. Self-heal. 



JLinn. Ge?i.301. F/. 5r. 646. 



Brunella. Juss.WQ. Tourn.i. 84. Lam.t.5\6. 



Cal. bell-shaped, two-lipped ; upper lip flat, dilated, very 

 abrupt, with 3 very short acute teeth ; low^er much nar- 

 rower, but about as long, straight, separated half way 

 down into 2 spinous-pointed segments. Cor. ringent ; 

 tube short, cylindrical ; throat longer and wider ; upper 

 lip concave, entire, inflexed ; lower reflexed, in 3 round- 

 ed, obtuse, crenate lobes, the middle one broadest. 

 Filam, awl-shaped, the 2 uppermost shortest, all forked, 

 more or less perfectly, at the summit. Anth. on the 

 lower branch of each filament, opening transversely by 2 

 valves. Ge7'?n. four-lobed. Sti/le thread-shaped, directed, 

 like the stamens, towards the upper lip, and on a level 

 with them. Stigma in two sharp recurved points. Seeds 

 4, oval, in the bottom of the closed, dry, reticulated 

 calyx. 



Perennial, downy or roughish, Europsean herbs, with un- 

 divided or pinnatifid leaves, and solitary, terminal, w^horl- 

 ed, dense, bracteated sjnkes of dark blue, or purplish, 

 inodorous Jlowers. Herbage not aromatic. Species few. 



1. P. vulgaris. Common Self-heal, or Slough-heal. 



All the leaves ovate-oblong, stalked. Teeth of the upper 

 lip of the calyx scarcely discernible. 



P. vulgaris. Linn. Sp.PLS37. Willd.v.3.\76. Fl.Br.646. Engl. 



Bot. v.\4.t.^6\. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 42. Mart. Rust. 1. 137. 



Hook. Scot. 185. Fl. Dan. t.9\0. 

 Prunella. Raii Sijn. 238. Ger. Em. 632. f. Fuchs. Hist. 621. f. 

 Brunella. Riv. Monop. Irr. i. 29. Dod. Pempt. 136./. 

 B. n. 277. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 120. 

 Consolida minor. Mattk. Falgr. v. 2. 312. f. Corner. Epit. 703. f. 



/3. Brunella minor. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 120. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 29. 

 /. 1; wanting in some copies. 



