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* Insignificant weeds in waste or cultivated (/rounds, with few small and purple or 



slender floinrs in some of the axils, (i) 

 L. amplexicaule. Leaves rounded, deeply crenate-toothed and cut, the 



upper ones clasping; corolla Avith a long tube, its upper lip bearded, the 



lower one spotted. 



L. purpureum. Not so common : leaves more heart-shaped, and less 



cut, all of them petioled. 



* * Flowers larger, 1' long, in several axiUary whorls: corolla ascending, the 



lateral lobes bearing a slender awl-shaped appendage. 1 

 L. album. Gardens and waste grounds : hairy ; leaves all petioled, ovate 



and heart-shaped, rugose-veiny ; flowers white. 



L. maculatum. Cult, in gardens ; hairy or nearjy smooth ; leaves as in 



the other, but with a white spot or blotch on the upper face ; flowers purple. 



34. LEONUR-US, MOTHERWORT. (Name in Greek means lion's tail, 

 but there is no obvious resemblance.) Fl. late summer. 



L. Cardiaca, COMMON M. Nat. from En. in cult, and waste grounds ; 

 tall, with palmately cleft long-petioled leaves, the lower rounded, the upper 

 wedge-shaped* at base ; upper lip of pale purple corolla bearded. % 



35. STACHYS, HEDGE-NETTLE. (Greek word for spike, from the 

 inflorescence.) Flowers in summer, in all ours ^. 



* Wild species in wet grounds, with small light reddish-purple corolla. 

 S. palustris. Common in many and diverse varieties, rough-hairy or 

 smooth, or the angles of the stem bristly ; leaves oblong or lance-ovate, or the 

 lower heart-shaped at base, crenately toothed, the lower or nearly all petioled ; 

 calyx-teeth sharp-pointed or pungent. 



S. hyssopiiblia. Wet sandy soil, not common : smooth, low (1 high) ; 

 leaves linear or linear-oblong, almost entire, sessile ; calyx-teeth softer and less 

 pointed. 



* * Cultivated for ornament : not very common. 



S. lanata, from Europe: low, tufted; the stems, oblong Mullein-like 

 leaves, and dense interrupted spike wholly covered with thick and silvery white 

 wool, and very short dull purple corollas. 



S. COCCinea, SCARLET S., from Mexico, with ovate-ohlong and heart- 

 shaped pubescent leaves, and whorled flowers with bright red corolla, its tube 

 often 1' long. 



36. BETONICA, BETONY. (The Latin name.) Cult, occasionally in 

 old gardens, from Old World. Stems low, erect : leaves coarsely crenate, 

 oblong, those on the stem few, of the root larger and heart-shaped on long 

 petioles. Fl. summer. 2/ 



B. grandifl6ra, GREAT B., from Northern Asia; with stem l-2 high, 

 flowers in separated whorls, purple corollas 1^' long. 



B. officinalis, WOOD B., from Europe, has flowers many times smaller, In 

 a more crowded oblong spike. 



37. PHLOMIS, JERUSALEM SAGE. (Old Greek name of some woolly 

 plant.) Fl. summer. 11 



P. tuber6sa, from E. Eu. : cultivated in old gardens, sparingly run wild ; 

 stems 3 5 high ; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong and heart-shaped, crenate, 

 rugose, smoothish ; flowers in remote and dense whorls ; upper lip of the purple 

 corolla white-hairy inside. 



38. MOLUCCELLA, MOLUCCA BALM, SHELL-FLOWER. (Name 

 from Molucca Islands.) Fl. summer. (T) 



M. laBVlS, from Asia : in some old gardens : low, much branched, smooth, 

 with roundish petioled leaves, flowers sessile in their axils accompanied by 

 pine-like bracts, the remarkable large cup-shaped calyx oblique and 1'long, 

 much exceeding the inconspicuous corolla. 



