250 THE SAGE FAMILY. 



20. Long-leaved Wound-avort — {Stdchys palustris.) 

 Moist cornfields, by ditch-banks, and in other wet places, common. 

 Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, i. 180; E. B. xxiv. 1675 ; Baxter, i. 10. 

 The variety of this plant, formerly called Stdchys amhigua, (E. B. xxx. 2089.) 

 is abundant about Strines, and by the stream in the upper pai"t of Mere Clough. 

 Found also in clayey fields at Ashley. (Mr. Hunt.) 



21. Hedge Wound- wort — [Stdchys sylvdtica.) 



Damp hedges, and in brambly woods, common everywhere. Fl. June, 



July. 



Curtis, i. 179 ; E. B. vi. 416 (too red). 



A plant of excessively noisome odour, and said to be beloved of toads. 



22. Field Wound-wort — [Stdchys arvensis.) 

 Cornfields and waste gi-ound. Common about Bowdon. Fl. August, 

 September. Annual. 



Curtis, ii. 261 ; E. B. xviL 1154. 



23. Ground-ivy — [Glechuma hederdcea.) 

 Dry hedgebanks, common everywhere. Fl. April, May. 



Curtis, i. 117; E. B. xii. 853 ; Baxter, ii. 136. 

 An elegant little plant, recognised in early spring, not sooner by the deep 

 violet-blue of its flowers, heart-shaped and crenate leaves, and long and straggling 

 stems, than by its powerful and raiher unpleasant odour. It may always be 

 known by its anthers, which are curved, and placed back to back, so as to present 

 the figure of two little white X's, or rather of two semi-circles, thus, X- The 

 calyx is fifteen-ribbed, the basil-thyme and hedge-calamint having it thirteen- 

 ribbed, and most Labiata; either five or ten-ribbed. 



24. Self-heal — [Prunella vulgaris.) 

 Moist waysides, common everywhere. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, ii. 202; E. B. xiv. 901 ; Baxter, i. 07. 

 The flowers vary from deep violet to a pretty rose-colour, and are occasionally 

 white. The broad bracts underneath them distinguish the plant in an instant. 



25. Blue Skull-cap — [Scutellaria galericuldta.) 

 On wet ditch-banks and the rushy borders of ponds, not uncommon. 

 Plentiful towards Carrington Moss, and on the borders of llostherne 

 Mere, in the wood next the Chester Road, and in the plantations on 

 the side opposite the Church. Mere Clough ; Reddish ; Leigh. Abun- 

 dant on the banks under the yew hedge at Mobberley old Hall. 

 Fl, June — August. 



Curtis, i. Ibl ; E. B. viii. 523 (too red) ; Baxter, i. 12. 



