818 PETONICA. [CLASS XIV. ORDER I. 



and reddish below the joints. Leaves ovate oblong, with a long acu- 

 minated point, strongly serrated, niore or less rough, with bristly hairs, 

 dark green above, paler beneath, the mid-rib and lateral branches pro- 

 minent. Inflorescence axillary and terminal crowded whorls. Calyx 

 large, bell-shaped, ribbed, rough, with bristly hairs, the teeth long, 

 sharp, bristly, awl-shaped, ciliated. Bracteas bristle-shaped, hairy. 

 Corolla much larger than the last species, yellow, hairy, the tube 

 narrow at the base, much inflated upwards, the upper lip broad, 

 dilated, concave, having an inflated appearance, the margin copiously 

 crenated, the lower lip plane, spreading, three lobed, the two lateral 

 ones oblong, even, the middle one large, sub-cordate, with two orange 

 swollen protuberances at the base, the sides mostly crenaled, white, 

 forming a border round a deep purple irregular shaped blotch, the 

 palate orange colour, spotted with crimson dots. Stamens curved 

 beneath the upper lip. Anthers two celled, somewhat bearded. Seeds 

 ovate, somewhat angularly compressed, pale, speckled. 



Habitat. Sandy corn fields and banks in various parts of England, 

 but not common, abundant in Scotland and Ireland. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



The flowers of this species are extremely beautiful and large, and 

 would adorn the flower border ; but the herbage is rough, rank, and 

 uninviting in its appearance. 



GENUS XL BETO'NTCA . LINN. Befony. 

 Nat. Ord. LABTAT'E^E. Jess. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx ovate, ten ribbed, with five awned teeth. Corolla 

 cylindrical, the tube long, naked within, upper lip concave, the 

 lower three cleft, spreading, the middle lobe obtuse. ' Name 

 altered from Bentonic, in Celtic; Ben meaning head, and ton 

 good or tonic." 



1. B. officina'lis, Linn. (Fig. 943.) Wood Betony. Leaves oblong, 

 ovate, cordate at the base, dentato-crenated, the lower on long foot- 

 stalks, the upper distant; spike oblong, interrupted; corolla downy ; 

 stamens shorter than the upper lip. 



English Botany, t. 1142. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 98. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 232. Stachys Betonica, Benlh. 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 205. 



Root twisted, somewhat woody, with branched spreading fibres. 

 Stem erect, or curved at the base, from one to two feet high, simple, 

 obtusely angular, and more or less rough, with reflexed bristly pu- 

 bescence. Leaves oblong, ovate obtuse, or ovate acute, the margins 

 equally crenaled or toothed, the base rounded or heart-shaped, dark 

 green, paler beneath, and more or less rough, wilh pubescence, the 



