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LABIATE. 



A very handsome plant, about a foot high, with large, 

 hairy, serrated leaves and conspicuous white flowers 

 blotched with bright rose-colour. The foliage while 

 fresh has an offensive smell, but in drying acquires the 

 flavour of new hay or Woodruff. FL June, July. 

 Perennial. 



PRUNELLA VULGARIS (Self-heal). 



19. PRUNELLA (Self-heal). 



1. P. vulgdris (Self-heal). The only British species. 

 Pastures and waste ground, very common. Well dis- 

 tinguished by its flattened calyx and whorls of purplish- 

 blue flowers, which are collected into a head, having 

 a pair of leaves at the base, and two taper-pointed bracts 

 beneath each whorl. Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



20. SCUTELLARIA (Skull-Cap). 



1. S. galericuldta (Greater Skull-Cap). Leaves ob- 

 long, tapering, heart-shaped at the base, notched ; 



