Atc 8 HA 
Ajuga. | XCIII. LABIATJE. 137 
long, mmon si ig between these two extremes, with eve y degree of villosit 
from almost glabrous in some T to the above-mentioned exceedingly 
llous on T indifferent specimen which I had publi as virgula 
appears to be a lone drawn up flow stem of an old plant not otherwise differing 
from a for: es uent, ata, with a similar habit but 
which now pr requen . trident 
still more drawn out and less villous, has all the floral leaves broadly sessile, ovate and 
deeply 3-toothed or 3-lobed, which give a very different aspect to the plant, but these 
characters are not as yet confirmed by any more perfect specimens. 
. A. sinuat 1 d 
hirsute perennial, not exceeding 0 in. Leaves ovate or oblong, deeply 
and irregularly sinuate-toothed, the radical ones on rather long petioles, 
1 to 8 in. long, the floral ones on shorter petioles, 3 to 2 in. long, but 
all rugose and prominently and obtusely toothed like the radical ones. 
Flowers not 3 lines long, about 6 in the whorl. Calyx hirsute. Corolla 
per lip not exceeding the calyx-teeth.—Denth. in DC. Prod. xii. 
ve i 
Whole of the section Bugula from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, with t e excep- 
f A. lobata, A. reptans, and A. orientalis, be joined together under the Linnean 
name of A. genevensis. 
Orver XCIV. PLANTAGINEZE. 
Flowers regular, Sepals 4. Corolla small, scarious, with an ovate 
Statics tube and 4 spreading lobes, imbricate in the bud. 
ovules in each cell, Style simple, terminal, entire, with 2 ni 
. e - 
he ey curved, parallel to the hilum.—Herbs with radical tufted or 
ng leaves, rarely branched and leafy. Flowers in heads or 
spikes or rarely solitary, on leafless axillary peduncles, each one sessile 
within a small bract. 
Amal! Order videl ., but chiefly in the temperate regions of 
the Old World, The Sie Ps the printed one of the d 
8 n Hat one, only contains two others, both monotypic, one from the mountains 
' America, the other European and aquatic, both of them very anomalous. 
l. PLANTAGO, Linn. 
i 9o 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in heads or spikes. Stamens 4. Capsule 2 
or 4-celled ; the other characters those of the Order. 
The geographical range of the genus is the same as that of the Order. Among the 
Australian ones, besides those that are introduced, one extends to New Zealand and 
