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fibrous and woody, while the stems boldly shoot up from it. 

 These stems branch a g'ood deal laterally, and always in 

 pairs ; they are in section somewhat squarish, or a form 

 that may be explained as a square with more or less 

 rounding of its corners, and are very often somewhat 

 hairy. The leaves, of which only one true pair is shown 

 in our drawing, are in pairs on the stem. The other 

 foliate forms in our sketch are the floral leaves, and 

 these are often in many plants more or less irregular 

 in arrangement, even when the stem-leaves follow a rigid 

 law. This is the case in the present plant ; the alternate 

 and somewhat irregular arrangement of the flower- leaves 

 is at variance with the regular pairing off of the lower 

 and stem-leaves. The leaves, it will be seen, are stalkless 

 and lanceolate, and have their margins cut into a few 

 large teeth. Their surfaces are often hairy, and the veins, 

 though few in number, are conspicuously marked. The 

 flowers grow in long spikes, all on each spike being 

 turned in one general direction. We almost invariably 

 find that these spikes nod or bend a little at the top, a 

 perfectly natural arrangement, though it suggests the idea 

 that the piece we have gathered is drooping, and needs the 

 refreshing influence of a vaseful of water. The flowers 

 individually are of the usual scrophularious and irregular 

 type, and are divided into two very distinct lips ; the upper 

 one is convex, or dome-shaped, and very simple in form, 

 while the lower one is cut into three very distinct and 

 fairly equal segments. These lips are very widely distended 

 on the full expansion of the blossom. The calyx is tubular, 

 and at its summit cleft into four parts, often hairy. In 

 colour it is generally a deeper, duller shade of red than the 

 corolla. The stamens are four in number, and arranged in 



