CLASS II. ORDER i.] LYCOPUS SALV1A. 23 



GENUS V. LYCO'PUS.f Gipsywort. 



Nat. Ord. LABU'TM:. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx tubular, permanent, divided into five narrow 

 acute segments. Corolla tubular, nearly equal, four cleft, the 

 upper segment broadest, and notched. Stamens simple. Name 

 from Xu^?, a wolf, and rou?, a foot; from the imaginary likeness 

 in the leaves of this plant to a wolf's paw. 



1. L. Europce'us, (Fig. 34.) common Gipsywort, Water Horehound, 

 or Wolfs Claw. Leaves opposite, deeply and irregularly serrated ; 

 flowers in whorls. 



English Botany, t. 1105. English Flora, vol. i. p. 33. Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 197. Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 11. 



Root fibrous. Stem upright, spreading by lateral suckers, four-cor- 

 nered, and slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, the 

 alternate pairs crossing each other (decussate), ovato-lanceolate, deeply 

 and unequally serrated, the lower ones especially, often pinuatifid. 

 Flowers small, sessile, surrounding the stem in dense whorls at the base 

 of the upper leaves. Calyx hairy, upper segment the largest. Corolla 

 whitish, with purple dots, the tube hairy within. Stamens rather pro- 

 minent, spreading. Anther of two pointed lobes. Stigma bifid. Seeds 

 four, obovate, depressed in the centre. 



Habitat. Banks of rivers, ditches, and moist meadows, frequent; 

 less, so in Scotland. 



Perennial ; flowering June to August. 



This plant has long been considered a febrifuge. It is astringent, 

 and has been administered to suppress internal haemorrhages. It 

 abounds in a colouring matter which dyes a good black, and according 

 to Withering, it was formerly used by gypsies, for the purpose of stain- 

 ing their skin ; hence the English name Gypsywort. 



GENUS VI. SAL'VIA. Sage or Clary. 

 Nat. Ord. LABJA'T.C. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx tubular, permanent, unequally two-lipped, the 

 lower bifid, the upper three-toothed. Corolla labiate, tube com- 

 pressed and dilated upwards, lower lip of three lobes, the upper 

 concave. Filaments with two divaricated branches, one only 



f This and the following genus Salvia, according to their natural affinity, be- 

 long to the Class Didynamia, and Order Gymnospermia, to which we were much 

 disposed to remove them ; but since it is according to the Linnaean rules first to 

 count the number of stamens to ascertain the Class to which the plant under 

 examination belongs; and the species in this genera having only two, place 

 them in the situation which they now hold, although they agree in every other 

 particular with their natural allies in the Class Didynamia. 



