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in number, two of which are longer than the others. 
They open inwards, and two may be absent. The 
ovary is situated on a honey disc, and contains two 
carpels. There is a single style, and the stigma is 
two-cleft. The fruit consists of four achenes or 
nutlets, or a drupe. 
SELFHEAL (Prunella vulgaris). 
This pretty wild-flower is very common, being 
found in every part of the British Isles, ascending to 
2400 ft. in Yorkshire. 
It is a typical meadow plant, growing in fields, 
where it may be found with Cowslip, Green-winged 
Orchis, Sorrel, Adder’s Tongue, Moonwort, Bugle 
(with which it is often confounded), the meadow 
Crowfoots, Common Meadow Rush, Vernal Grass, 
etc. It is indifferent as to whether the field is a 
meadow or pasture. As it is rather fond of moist 
situations, it is often to be found also in woods and 
copses, and on the turfy surface of a lawn. 
The stem is erect or creeping, with whitish fibrous 
roots. Several glabrous or hairy stems may spread 
out from a common centre near the base. The leaves 
are stalked, oblong, ovate, the upper sessile, serrate, 
and very rarely pinnatifid. . 
The“purple flowers are whorled, with a pair of 
truncate leaves below each whorl. The bracts are 
cordate, ciliate. The calyx-teeth are } truncate, 
lanceolate, mucronate, and the calyx spreading, red 
or purple. The nutlets are oblong and smooth. 
