170 THE STORY 'OF’ PLANT Live 
Selfheal may be as much as 1 ft. in height. The 
flowers may be found from July till September. 
The male flowers are large, the female smaller and 
not socommon. In the absence of insect visits the 
flower is self-pollinated. The stamens are rudimen- 
tary in the small flowers; the style projects beyond 
the upper lip of the tube. The two stigmas are 
divergent, and have a papillose surface, the inner 
side being coated with pollen. Insects are frequent 
visitors, the flowers being conspicuous. In the male 
large flower the tube is longer, and the stamens are 
long and bifid above, one shorter lobe being turned 
outwards, the pointed end resting upon the concave 
surface of the upper lip. The anthers surround the 
stigmas and may be brushed by a bee. 
The short stamens divide into two branches. 
The bee’s back is brushed by the papillose stigma and 
by fresh pollen afterwards. 
Hive bees and other bees and butterflies visit it. 
The nutlets drop out when ripe, being partly 
assisted by the wind. 
Beef and Greens, Butter Rose, Jack-in-Box, Jack- 
in-the-Green, King-Charles-in-the-Oak, Lady’s Frills, 
Milkmaid, Petty Mullein, Oxlip, Primrose, Plum- 
rocks, Primet, Prumarde, St. Peter’s Wort, Spink, 
May Spink, Spring Flower, Summerlocks, are names 
by which Selfheal it also known. 
Brunel is a corruption of Brunella, from “ die 
braune,” an infirmity amongst soldiers ‘‘ that lie in 
campe.” 
