104 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
14. BALLOTA, L. 
Cymes many-flowered, dense; calyx-teeth 5-I0, 
spreading; corolla-tube with a ring of hairs inside, upper 
lip erect ; stamens 4. Not alpine. 
B. nigra, L. (including alba, L., fetida, Lam.), Stink- 
ing Horehound; very foetid; hedge-banks, very common. 
15. PRUNELLA,* LC, 
Cymes few-flowered, in dense terminal heads, sur- 
rounded by orbicular leaf-like bracts; calyx closed in 
fruit; upper lip of corolla flat, lower lip 2-lobed; stamens 
4, filaments bifid. Not alpine. 
P. vulgaris, L., Self-heal, Heal-all; very common. P. 
alba, Pall. (dacenzata, L.); flowers yellowish-white, leaves 
pinnatifid; dry banks; Southern and Western Switzer- 
land, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, local. JP. grandiflora, Jacq. ; 
flowers large, purple (#—1 in.), stem less leafy than vw/- 
garis ; banks and meadows, common. 
16. SCUTELLARIA, L. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, purple or violet ; 
calyx 2-lipped, closed after flowering ; corolla-tube long, 
not hairy inside, upper lip helmet-shaped, lower lip 3- 
lobed ; stamens 4. 
S. galericulata, L., Skull-cap; flowers blue, about 
2 in., stem 6-18 in., branched, leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
glabrous; water-sides. S. hastzfolia, L.; flowers violet, 
cymes in a terminal leafy spike, leaves ovate or lanceolate- 
hastate, glabrous; Rhone Valley. S. alpina, L. (Pl. 102) ; 
* Continental botanists spell this word Brunella. 
