138 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophularia. 



Root whitish, tuberous, beset with fleshy knobs. Stem 2 or 3 

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

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

 rated j 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 

 cluster. Bracteas lanceolate. H. a little drooping. Ca^ smooth. 

 Cor. of a dull green, with a livid purple lip. Caps, ovate-oblong. 



Pj 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. peregrina, 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, 



2. S. aquatica. Water Figwort. Water Betony. 



Leaves heart-shaped, bluntish, on decurrent footstalks. 

 Stem winged. Root fibrous. 



S.aquatica. Linn, Sp. PL 864. Willd.v.3.270. FLBrM3. Engl. 



Bat. V. \2. t. 854. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 44. Hook. Scot. 189. 



Fl. Dan. t. 507. Ehrh. PL Off. 156. 

 S. n. 325. Hall HisLv. I. 141. 

 S. aquatica major. Rail Syn.*283. 

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

 S. fcemina. Camer. Epit. 867. f. 

 Betonica aquatica. Ger. Em.7l5.f. 



In watery places, the margins of pools and rivers, and wet 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 footstalks ^ their lateral ribs 

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

 branches, bearing numerous ^ower^, whose tube is green, the 

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

 Capsule globular. 



3. S. Scorodoma. Balm-leaved Figwort. 



Leaves heart-shaped, doubly serrated ; downy beneath. 

 Cluster leafv. 



