LABIATE. 1 



SPECIES VI.— S T A C H Y S ANNUA. Linn. 



Plate MLXXni. 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIH. Tab. MCCXII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 833. 



Kootstock none. Stem rather stiff, erect, not rooting at the base, 

 much branched. Leaves all shortly stalked; petiole shorter than the 

 lamina ; lamina oblong-elliptical or oblong, attenuated towards the 

 base and apex, subacute, crenate-serrate or serrate. Bracts resembling 

 the leaves, but the upper ones subsessile ; bracteoles minute, about as 

 long as the pedicels. Verticillasters in a lax spikelike raceme. Calyx 

 not oblique, densely pubescent with long simple hairs, intermixed with 

 a few gland-tipped ones ; teeth narrowly triangular-acuminated, spinous- 

 pointed, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla tube much longer than 

 the calyx-teeth, and about as long as the bracts, except the lowest 

 whorls. Nucules dim, finely shagreened. Plant green, sparmgly 

 pubescent with short hairs. 



In corn-fields or chalky soil. Very rare. It was found in August, 

 1830, by the late Mr. Joseph Woods in a field on the right-hand side 

 of the road between Gadshill and Rochester: and in 1855 the late 

 Mr. J. B. Salmon found it plentifully in corn-fields on the hill above 

 Strood, which cannot be far from the other locality. In both cases it 

 has probably been mtroduced with seed from the continent. 



[England.] Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem rather wiry, solitary, 4 to 12 inches high, downy, with short 

 curled reflexed hairs. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, somewhat 5-nerved. 

 Bracts narrower than the leaves, the upper ones nearly sessile. In- 

 florescence occupying about half the stem ; whorls distant, about 

 4-flowered. Calyx ^ inch long, contracted at the throat and with 

 the teeth curved upwards in fruit. Corolla f inch long, ochreous, with 

 the under lip yellow. Nucules suborbicular, compressed, fuscous 

 broAvn. Plant with somewhat the hal)it of Galeopsis angustifolia : 

 indeed, Mr. Salmon when he collected it believed it to be a pale- 

 flowered variety of that plant. 



Pale Annual Woundwort. 



Frcncli, Spiaire antvuelle. German, Emjdhriger Ziest. 



GENUS .XV.— G ALEOPSIS. Linn. 



Calyx tubular, scarcely enlarging in fruit, not bilabiate ; limb 

 ascending or at length s^^reading, of 5 spinous-pointed teeth. Corolla 

 bilabiate; tube long; upper lip erect, arched, deeply concave, entire 



