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In meadows and pastures common. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root somewhat creeping. Stems a span high, erect or ascending, 

 leafy, square, downy at the opposite sides with upright hairs ; 

 branched chiefly in the lower part. Leaves stalked, ovate or 

 oblong, acute or bluntish, crenate, or wavy, or, in variety (3, 

 quite entire ; paler beneath, with downy ribs. FI. numerous, 

 deep purplish blue, in dense, solitary, erect, cylindrical, whorled 

 spikes ; each whorl of 6 flowers, subtended by a pair of broad, 

 obtuse, ribbed, partly coloured, bracteas, shorter than the calyx. 

 The barren branch of the 2 upper stamens is sometimes shorten- 

 ed and blunted. 



This herb is, in Germany, reckoned salutary for ulcerations of the 

 throat and mouth, called in the language of that country die 

 Breune, whence, says Ray, came the name of ^r?<?2e//a. Linnaeus 

 softened that barbarous appellation into Prunella, without ren- 

 dering it more classical. 



DID YNA MIA A NG 10 SPERM I A . 



This order of the artificial system of Linnaius consists, except 

 Digitalis, of his own natural order of Perso?ialce, 40, and 

 comprehends two of Jiissieu's, Pediculares, 35, and Scro- 

 j)hularicc, 40. To the former belong, more or less exactly, 

 all the British genera of our first section, characterized 

 by a four-cleft calijx ; as well as Pcdicidaris, whose calyx 

 is five-cleft, and brohanche, which has a two-lipped, or 

 two-leaved, calyx. To the Scrophularicc belong all our 

 genera with a five-cleft calyx, exce})t Pcdicularis and Liti- 

 luva, the latter being properly referred to Jussieu's Ca- 

 prifolia, .58, the first section of which only really consti- 

 tutes the order so named. The Prdicidarcs and true Scro- 

 2)hnlari6C have been united by Mr. Brown, Prodr. X, 

 Hull. V. 1. 433, under the a|ij)ellation of Scruphidariiuc. 

 Two newortlers have nevertheless been recently founded, 

 out of these, by M. Richard, the Mclampi/raccfC and 

 Orohanc/iccc. I presume to think tiiem superfluous, and 

 shall offer my reasons under the genera whose names 

 tlicy bear. 



Mr. Brown thus defines his Scrop/zidarincc. 



Calyx iVw'ided, permaneni. 



