STACHYS 405 



Top. Bot. 317. Syme, E. B. vii. 54, t, 1067. Nyman, 577. Fl. Oxf. 231. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, roadsides, hedge-banks, coppices, heaths, 

 &c. This pretty species is scattered through the county rather 

 frequently, occurring in most parishes where there are M'oods. 

 P. June-November. 



First recorded in Spenctr's Complete British Traveller, 1771, and as Betonica 

 officinalis in Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. With Puccinia beionicae, DC, 

 on it in Bagley Wood, Baxf. Phaen. Bot. 214, 1837, 

 A white-flowered form was seen in Windsor Forest in 1894. In 



dry places the plant necessarily becomes smaller, and the stems are 



then sometimes decumbent. 



Stachys Betonica is found in all the bordering counties. 



[S. GERMANicA, Linn. Sp. PI. 581 (1753), and of Gesner. Doicny Woundicort. 



S. Fiiclisii, Ger. Em. 695. S. major germanica, C. B. Pin. 236. 

 Syme, E. B. vii. 56, t. 1068. Fl. Oxf. 231. 



Error. Occurs in plenty in . . . Berks, Brain field in Phyt. iii. 6?>5, 0. S. 

 Ducklington, Berks, Bicheno in Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 3, 282, 1835. 



Ducklington is in Oxfordshire ; hitherto S. germanica has not been found 

 by me in Berkshire. 



Oxfordshire is the only bordering county for which it is recorded, and 

 there it has not been found on the Coralline Oolite.] 



S. palustris, Linn. Sp. PI. 580 (1753), and of Gesner. Marsh Wound- 

 icort, Cloicn's Allheal. 

 S. palustris foetida, C. B. Pin. 236. Panax Coloni, Ger. Em. 1005. 

 Top. Bot. 318. Syme, E. B. vii. 57, t. 1069. Nyman, 578. Fl. Oxf. 232. 

 Native. Paludal, agrestal. Ditches, stream-sides, thickets, badly 



drained fields, &c. P. June-Septeinber. 

 First record. Sonning, Mr. S. Rudge, 1800, in Herb. Brit. Mus. Published 

 by Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 A dwarf form is mentioned by Mr. J. C. Melrill from Hurst, and 

 Mr. Tufnail says it occurs in arable fields at Sonning. 



S. palustris, which is too frequent in all the districts of the county to 

 need an enumeration of localities, occurs in all the bordering counties. 



S. sylvatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 580 (1753). Hedge Woundwort. 



Galeopsis vera, Ger. Em. 704. 

 Top. Bot. 319. Syme, E. B. vii. 59, t. 1071. Nyman, 578. Fl. Oxf. 232. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, ditches, hedges, brook-sides, and shady 



places. Frequent. P. May-July. 

 First record. Sonning, Mr. S. Rudge, Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Published 

 as S. sylvatica, Dr. Noehden, in Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 



S. sylvatica is too frequent to need localities being given, and is most 

 abundant in rich soil in low-lying situations, becoming much le.ss 

 frequent on the Upper Chalk. 



S. sylvatica occurs commonly in all the bordering counties. 



