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cent on the outside. Nucules subtrigonous-ovoid, fuscous, very finely 

 shaojreened. 



o 



Downy Woundwort. 

 French, ^inaire (TAUe)iiagne. German, DeutscJier Ziest. 



SPECIES III.-STACHYS PALUSTRIS. Linn. 



Plate MLXIX. 



Eelch. Ic. Fl. Germ, at Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCI. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 1744. 



Eootstock with very long creeping fleshy subteri'anean stolons. 

 Stem stout, erect, simple or branched. Radical leaves not persistent 

 at the time of flowering ; stem leaves sessile or subsessile, oblong, 

 lanceolate-oblong or strapshaped-oblong, abrupt or subcordate at the 

 base, acute, crenate-serrate or serrate, green on both sides, not 

 rugose. Lower pairs of bracts resembling the leaves ; bracteoles strap- 

 shaped-snbulate, not above one-fourth the length of the calyx. Verti- 

 cillasters in a long rather lax spikelike raceme. Calyx not oblique, 

 pubescent with long simple and short gland-tipped hairs; teeth as 

 long as the tube, triangular-subulate, spinous -pointed. Corolla tube 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx teeth, shorter than the undermost of the 

 pairs of bracts. Nucules shining, finely punctured. Plant green, 

 m.ore or less thinly clothed with short rather stifle hairs. 



By the sides of rivers and ditches, cultivated ground, and by road- 

 sides. Common, and universally disti'ibuted. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Eootstock with very numerous wliite fleshy subterranean stolons, 

 which ci-eep in all directions. Stem quadrangular, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 sometimes simple, sometimes with numerous erect branches. Leaves 

 2 to 5 inches long, generally neai4y sessile, but sometimes with a stalk 

 shorter than then- own breadth, regularly seiTate, with the teeth blunt 

 or acute. Whorls 6 to 10-fiowered. Calyx about f inch long, 

 bell-shaped, often tinged with purple ; limb spreading. Corolla alDOut 

 f inch long, purplish rose ; lower lip variegated -with white. Nucules 

 fuscous-brown, ovoid, subtriquetrous. 



Marsh Woundwort 



Frenct, iSpiaire cles marais. German, Suinpf Ziest. 

 This plant fomierly had a great reputation as a vulnerary, being strongly recom- 

 mended by Gerarde, in his Herbal. He records that, being in Kent visiting a patient, 

 he accidentally heard of a countryman who had cut himself badly ■n'ith a scythe, and 

 had bound a quantity of this herb, bruised with grease, and " laid upon in manner 

 of a pultesse" over the wound, which healed in a week, though it would "have 

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