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SPECIES II.-A JUG A PYRAMIDALIS. Linn. 



Plate MLXXXIX. 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCXXXTV. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1306. 



Biennial. Rootstock destitute of stolons. Flowering stems erect, 

 simple, with 1 pair of leaves, or destitute of any. Radical leaves 

 persistent till the time of flowering, indistinctly stalked, obovate or 

 oblanceolate, attenuated towai-ds the base, obtuse, repand-crenate or 

 repand-dentate ; stem leaves similar to the radical leaves, but subsessile. 

 Bracts sessile, oval or oblong-oval, subobtuse, dentate towards the 

 apex or the upper ones entire, the uppermost ones coloured or herba- 

 ceous, adpressed. Verticillasters occujjying nearly the whole of the 

 stem, usually 6 -flowered, the lower ones rather distant or all of them 

 approximate. Calyx woolly with jointed hairs ; teeth linear-triangular, 

 much longer than the tube, densely ciliated witli jointed hairs. Corolla 

 shorter than any of the bracts; middle lobe of the lower lip quadrate - 

 obovate, truncate. 



In bare places by the sides of streams, and among open woods in 

 mountainous districts. Very rare. Confined to the north of Scotland . 

 I have seen it from Caithness, where it has occurred in several 

 localities near the coast, and have collected it in Berridale in Hoy, and 

 Neversdale on the Mainland, Orkney. It has been reported, on good 

 authority from Argyle, western Inverness, the Hebrides, Ross, and 

 j\Idray. In Ireland it is recorded in the Isles of Arran and Burren, 

 CO. Clare. 



Scotland, Ireland. Biennial, or Peremiial. ( ?) Early Summer. 



Rootstock short, oblique, certainly only biennial in the Orkney plant, 

 but on the continent it is said to be perennial. Radical leaves 2 to 

 4 inches long. Flowering stems 3 to 8 inches high, solitary or, in large 

 plants, several from the crown of the rootstock. Bracts more toothed 

 towards the apex, and the upper ones more adpressed than in A. 

 repens. Flowers ^ inch long, pale blue, densely crowded, in a pyra- 

 midal 4-sided spike occupying nearly the whole of the stem. Nucules 

 very similar to those of A. repens. Plant densely clothed with 

 jointed hairs throughout, but, according to Mr. Bentham, on the con- 

 tinent it is sometimes glabrous. The bi'acts in the living specimens of 

 the Orkney plant which I have seen were herbaceous, but tliey are 

 described as being sometimes purplish. 



Pyramidal Bugle. 

 Frcncli, Bugle pyram^^ole. German, Pyramedenformiger Gilnsel. 



