304 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
stem is from two to three feet high, with large oval leaves ; 
small purple flowers in whorls, which are divided into two 
bunches, not continued all round, as is usually the case. 
Ce IEEE 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
CoROLLIFLOR2. LAMIACE, 
BETONICA. (Betony.) 
Generic Character. Calyx with ten ribs, teeth equal and with 
along point. Corolla with the tube long and projecting. 
BETONICA OFFICINALIS. (Plate XVIII. Fig. 69.) Wood 
Betony. Nearly two feet high, with few leaves on the 
stalks, the lower ones rather heart-shaped, on long foot- 
stalks, upper not stalked, and oblong. Spikes of flowers 
oblong and thick, formed of many purple flowers, m whorls, 
close to each other; when the flower has faded, the points of 
the calyx show conspicuously. It is frequent in woods and 
thickets, showing its heads of purple flowers above the 
underwood. 
