330 LABIATiE. 



two-lipped calyx closed in fruit (not however deciduous 

 and pouched as in SCUTELLARIA), and peculiar in having 

 large rounded bracts in the dense spikes or heads of six- 

 flowered whorls. 



Species two or three only in temperate regions. 



Brunella vulgaris Lin7i. ; F.B.I. iv 6/0, XXXIII I ; 

 Self-Heal. 



Rootstock creeping. Stems 4 to 8 inches, erect or 

 ascending. Lower leaves stalked, upper sessile : blades 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire or toothed. Heads 

 I to lYz inches, by % inch thick, with a pair of leaves 

 close below. Bracts very broad and rounded, often 

 with purple margin. Corolla /^ to M inch, purple or 

 white : upper lip erect, concave : lower spreading, side 

 lobes deflexed, middle lobe concave. Filaments of 

 stamens divided at the top, with an anther on only one, 

 the lower, arm. Nutlets oblong, smooth. Somewhat 

 variable in habit, t. 220. Wight Ic. t. 1448. 



On the open downs in grass, common. Fyson 1829, 3078. 

 Bourne 6. 



Gen. Dist. Temperate climates of Europe including England, Asia, 

 North America, Andes, North Africa and Australia. 



LEUCAS. F.B.L 112 XLV. 



Dead-Nettie (not of England). 



Woolly or villous herbs and undershrubs with 

 flowers in dense, well separated, whorls; having the 

 characteristics of the family and tribe 4 STACHYDEjE 

 (p. 321). Calyx tubular or campanulate, ten-ribbed and 

 six to ten-toothed. Corolla with a hooded upper lip 

 covered with stiff hairs and a spreading lower lip with 

 large middle-lobe. Stamens longer than the corolla 

 tube conniving at the anthers under the upper lip. 



Species 50 in Asia and Africa. 



