BUGLE 923 
below, at its wider part, where the honey is secreted, the honey being 
on the side turned to the underlip at the base of the ovary. 
The lower lobe of the style is papillose, and rests on short stamens, 
when young lying close together. Small bees do not force the 
stamens far apart. The anthers turn the pollen-covered sides upwards 
and downwards, and are touched by all kinds of visitors. The inferior 
stamens separating the style are released, and the lower lobe projecting 
between the anthers is then touched first by a bee with pollen from 
another flower and cross-pollinated. If bees do not visit the flowers 
they are self-pollinated by pollen falling on the stigma. 
Bugle flowers are visited by the Honey Bee, Bomdbus, Anthophora, 
Osmia, Andrena, Halictus, Rhingia, Large White Butterfly (Pieris 
brassice), Green-veined White (P. xapz), Small White (P. rape), 
Brimstone (Ahodocera rhamnt), Papilio podatirius, Hesperia alveus, 
Broad-bordered Bee Hawk Moth (Macroglossa fuciformrs), &c. 
The nutlets are dispersed by their own agency, and fall to the 
ground when ripe. 
Bugle is distinctly a clay-loving plant, and addicted to a clay soil, 
being common on the soils of the Lias and Boulder Clay. 
The radical leaves and flowerheads are galled by Arzophyes ajuge. 
A beetle, Weligethes viduatus, and a Heteropterous insect, AZonanthia 
ampliata, are found on Bugle. 
Ajuga, Pliny, is supposed to be derived from the Greek agwzos, 
weak in limbs, in reference to an assumed efficacy against gout. The 
second Latin name refers to its creeping or stoloniferous habit. 
Bugle is also called Wood Betony, Brown Bugle, Herb Carpenter, 
Middle Comfrey, Middle Consound, Dead Men’s Bellows, Helfring- 
wort, Wild Mint, Sickle Wort. 
Gerarde says: ‘‘It is put in drinks for wounds, and that is the cause 
why some do commonly say that he that hath bugle and sanicle will 
scarce vouchsafe the chirurgien a bugle”. It was a reputed vulnerary, 
astringent and cooling. 
The name Bugle is said to be a corruption of the late Latin name 
Bugula, which is akin to dugz//o, the classical Latin name for the plant. 
EssENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
262. Ajuga reptans, L.—Stem erect, glabrous, with creeping 
stolons, leaves obovate, entire, upper sessile, lower stalked, flowers 
purple, in a spike, with bracts below. 
