CLASS XIV. ORDKE 1.1 STACHtS. 828 



spotted with dark purple. Stamens curved beueath the upper lip. 

 Seeds oblong, triangular, a dull glaucous black. 



Habitat. -~Fie](\s, especially in a sandy soil; frequent. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



A small pale coloured plant, readily distinguished from all the other 

 species by its small corolla, ovate deeply creuated leaves ; but like 

 most other annuals very variable in its size, according to the more or 

 less luxuriant soil in which it has grown. The whole plant has an 

 unpleasant odour when bruised, and has not been applied to any par- 

 ticular use. 



6. S. ann'ua, Linn. (Fig. 950.) Pale Annual Woundwort. Stem 

 erect, branched to the top, downy ; leaves oblong, lanceolate, crenato- 

 serrate, downy, the lower ones petiolated, the upper sessile, almost 

 entire, with an acuminated point ; whorls of about six flowers, crowded 

 above into a spike ; calyx hairy, with equal lanceolate bristle-pointed 

 teeth. 



English Botany, t. 2669.— Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. 1. p. 

 233.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 201. 



Root of numerous slender branched fibres. Stemeveci^ or ascending 

 a foot or more high, angular, branched, rough, with spreading hairs, 

 especially above. Leaves numerous, the lower oblong lanceolate, 

 tapering into a footstalk, mostly three ribbed at the base, the upper 

 smaller, lanceolate, and nearly sessile, serrated, all paler beneath than 

 above, with a prominent mid-rib, and more or less clothed with 

 pubescence. Injlorescence whorls of about six flowers, axillary and 

 distant, or crowded into a terminal spike. Calyx bell-shaped, ribbed 

 and hairy, the teeth nearly equal, lanceolate, bristle pointed. Bracteas 

 small, awl-shaped, hairy. Corolla with an inflated tube, as long or 

 longer than the calyx, downy, upper lip large, crenated or crisped on 

 the margin, the lower three lobed, the lateral ones ovate, somewhat 

 reflexed, slightly crenated on the margin, the middle one broad, 

 spreading, deeply notched. Stamens shorter than the upper lip. 

 Seeds roundish, angular, black, smooth, glossy. • 



Habitat. — A field between Gadshill and Rochester. — /. Woods, Esq. 

 Hooker. 



Annual; flowering in August. 



This is a doubtful native plant, for « the field," Sir W. J. Hooker 

 observes, was " cropped with white wheat, and it is possible that the 

 seeds may have been introduced with the grain of that plant from the 

 Continent." ft is by no means an uncommon plant in corn fields in 

 France, Germany, and Italy, but it grows higher and more robust than 

 with us. 



