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lobed angular base, or ovate oblong, and sometimes slightly heart- 

 shaped at the base, and three ribbed, dark green, paler, and more downy 

 on the under side, wrinkled with netted veins, the margin more or less 

 lobed, especially at the base, and doubly crenated, or acutely toothed, 

 the footstalks long, channeled above, downy. Inflorescence a long 

 terminal leafy panicle, with opposite and alternate branches, short and 

 subdivided, downy. Bracteas linear, awl-shaped. Calyx of ovate 

 obtuse downy segments, with a narrowish membranous margin. 

 Corolla with a pale yellowish green sub-globose tube, the limb a dull 

 purplish red, the upper lip straight, of two rounded short lobes, having 

 a rounded lobe within, the lower of three short rounded recurved lobes. 

 Stamens with short filaments, and rather large yellowish anthers. 

 Capsules smooth, roundish ovate, acute, many seeded. 



Habitat. Hedges and cliffs in moist places in the South and South- 

 West of England, and at Tralee, in Ireland. 



Perennial or biennial ; flowering in July. 



This is distinguished from all other of our species by its downiness, 

 the leaves being lobed or doubly crenated, wrinkled, and the panicle 

 long and leafy. Sir W. J. Hooker observes, that " the Rev. Mr. Bree 

 has sent me a plant which he considers a hybrid between S. scorodonia 

 and S. aquatica, brought from St. Ives and cultivated in his garden." 



** Calyx with Jive deep acute segments ; flowers yellow. 

 5. S. vema'lis, Linn. (Fig. 991.) Yellow Figwort. Downy, leaves 

 broadly heart-shaped, doubly serrated and cut ; panicle leafy, the 

 branches axillary, three to seven flowered, sub-corymbose ; calyx with 

 oblong acute segments; corolla without an inner scale. 



English Botany, t. 567. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 140. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 239. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 193. 



Root somewhat tuberous. Stem erect, from two to three feet high, 

 hollow, square, with somewhat winged angles, simple or branched, 

 downy. Leaves numerous, opposite, and alternate, sometimes there are 

 three together, in which case the stem has five angles, all downy, 

 broadly heart-shaped, petiolated, the margin mostly cut, especially at 

 the base, and doubly serrated, light green above, paler beneath, and 

 more hairy, the veins and mid-rib prominent. Inflorescence a terminal 

 leafy panicle, of short angular axillary branches, each terminating iu a 

 sub-corymbose cluster of about seven flowers, the partial stalks short, 

 forked, and leafy. Calyx in five ovate oblong obtuse hairy segments, 

 with a narrowish membranous margin. Corolla pale yellow, globose, 

 the mouth contracted, the limb of five short obtuse rounded lobes, 

 without an internal scale. Stamens nearly equal, the filaments thread- 

 shaped, arising from the base of the corolla, protruded with the slender 

 style. Capsule ovate, acute. Seeds numerous, minute. 



Habitat. Under hedges and road sides in various parts of England, 

 Wales, and Scotland, but rare. 



Biennial ; flowering in April and May. 



