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below, at its wider part, where the honey is secreted, the honey being 

 on the side turned to the underlip at the base of the ovary. 



The lower lobe of the style is papillose, and rests on short stamens, 

 when young lying close together. Small bees do not force the 

 stamens far apart. The anthers turn the pollen-covered sides upwards 

 and downwards, and are touched by all kinds of visitors. The inferior 

 stamens separating the style are released, and the lower lobe projecting 

 between the anthers is then touched first by a bee with pollen from 

 another flower and cross-pollinated. If bees do not visit the flowers 

 they are self-pollinated by pollen falling on the stigma. 



Bugle flowers are visited by the Honey Bee, Bombus, Anthophora, 

 Osmia, Andrena, Halictus, Rhingia, Large White Butterfly (Pieris 

 brassicte], Green-veined White (P. napi], Small White (P. rap&), 

 Brimstone (Rhodocera rhamni\ Papilio podalirius, Hesperia alveus, 

 Broad-bordered Bee Hawk Moth (Macroglossa fiiciformis), &c. 



The nutlets are dispersed by their own agency, and fall to the 

 ground when ripe. 



Bugle is distinctly a clay-loving plant, and addicted to a clay soil, 

 being common on the soils of the Lias and Boulder Clay. 



The radical leaves and flowerheads are galled by Eriophyes ajugce. 

 A beetle, Meligethes viduatus, and a Heteropterous insect, Monanthia 

 amp Hat a, are found on Bugle. 



AJ2iga, Pliny, is supposed to be derived from the Greek aguios, 

 weak in limbs, in reference to an assumed efficacy against gout. The 

 second Latin name refers to its creeping or stoloniferous habit. 



Bugle is also called Wood Betony, Brown Bugle, Herb Carpenter, 

 Middle Comfrey, Middle Consound, Dead Men's Bellows, Helfring- 

 wort, Wild Mint, Sickle Wort. 



Gerarde says: " It is put in drinks for wounds, and that is the cause 

 why some tlo commonly say that he that hath bugle and sanicle will 

 scarce vouchsafe the chirurgien a bugle". It was a reputed vulnerary, 

 astringent and cooling. 



The name Bugle is said to be a corruption of the late Latin name 

 Bugula, which is akin to bugillo, the classical Latin name for the plant. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



262. Ajuga reptans, L. Stem erect, glabrous, with creeping 

 stolons, leaves obovate, entire, upper sessile, lower stalked, flowers 

 purple, in a spike, with bracts below. 



