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Ditchley; near Witney, and Stonesfield; between Woodstock, 

 Enstone, and at Brizenorton : it has also been found four 

 miles south of Grantham, near the London road, opposite 

 Easton ; and on a hill two miles from Bedford. 



6. Stachys Intermedia; Oblong-leaved Stachys. Whorls 

 many-flowered; calices subspungent; leaves oblong, subcor- 

 date, crenate ; stem somewhat woolly. Perennial, flowering 

 in June and July. Native of Carolina. 



7. Stachys Lanata ; Woolly Stachys. Whorls many-flow- 

 ered ; leaves woolly; stems procumbent and rooting at the 

 base. Root perennial. Native of Siberia. 



8. Stachys Cretica ; Cretan Stachys. Whorls thirty-flow- 

 ered ; calices pungent; stem rough-haired. It flowers from 

 June to August. Perennial. Native of Crete. 



9. Stachys Patens ; Spreading Stachys. Very much 

 branched : branches filiform, spreading ; leaves lanceolate, 

 serrate, smooth ; flowers subverticillate. Native of Cuba. 



10. Stachys Glutinosa ; Clammy Stachys. Branches very 

 much branched ; leaves lanceolate, smooth. This is a little 

 shrub, a foot high, clammy all over, with a strong bituminous 

 scent; corolla villose on the outside. Native of Candia. 



11. Stachys Spinosa; Thorny Stachys. Branches termi- 

 nated by a spine ; stem very much branched ; flowers on the 

 extreme branchlets, axillary, solitary, or in threes, small, 

 white, tipped with red. Native of the western parts of Candia. 



12. Stachys Orientalis ; Levant Stachys. Leaves tomen- 

 tose, ovate, lanceolate ; floral leaves shorter than the whorl ; 

 stem very hairy; whorls remote, many-flowered; corolla 

 yellow, with the upper lip very hirsute on the outside. 

 Native of the Levant. 



13. Stachys Palestina ; Palestine Stachys. Flowers sub- 

 spiked ; leaves lanceolate, sessile, tomentose, wrinkled, quite 

 entire ; calices awnless. Stems shrubby, round, white, tomen- 

 tose ; upper lip of the corolla concave, entire, purple, with a 

 deeper purple line along tha edge; lower lip also purple, 

 spotted with white at the throat; middle lobe larger, con- 

 cave ; calix ten-cornered.* Native of Palestine and Greece. 



14. Stachys Maritima ; Yellow or Sea Stachys. Leaves 

 cordate, obtuse, tomentose, crenate; bractes oblong, quite 

 entire. Root perennial ; stem suffruticose, a span high, erect, 

 pubescent; corollas yellow. It flowers in July. Native of 

 sea-coasts on the south of Europe. 



15. Stachys jEthiopica; Cape Stachys. Whorls two- 

 flowered. Root perennial. The whole plant hairy ; corolla 

 incurved, three times as long as the calix ; the upper lip 

 villose on the outside, erect, arched, obovate, entire ; stem 

 a palm high, erect or diffused. Native of the Cape. 



16. Stachys Hirta ; Procumbent Stachys. Whorls six- 

 flowered; stems prostrate; upper lip of the corolla bifid, 

 divaricate, reflexed. Root perennial. It flowers from June to 

 August. Native of Spain, Italy, the Levant, and Barbary. 



17. Stachys Canariensis ; Canary Stachys. Whorls six- 

 flowered ; leaves cordate, villose, crenate; stems almost 

 erect; fruiting calices of a very spreading bell-shape. Root 

 perennial, branched; corolla rose-purple; upper lip quite 

 entire ; disk of the lower lip, above the throat, dotted with 

 purple. Native of the Canaries. 



18. Stachys Lavandulifolia; Lavender-leaved Stachys. 

 kVhorls six-flowered, very hirsute; leaves lanceolate, quite 



entire, marked with lines. Stem erect, a span high, simple, 

 hirsute ; corolla purple. Native of the Levant. 



19. Stachys Recta; Upright Stachys. Whorls subspiked ; 

 aves cordate, elliptic, crenate, rugged ; stems ascending ; 



Root perennial ; flowers yellow. It flowers from June to 

 August, and is a native of the south of Europe. 



20. Stachys Arenaria ; Sand Stachys. Whorls subspiked, 

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six-flowered, villose ; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, sewate ; stems 

 procumbent at the base. Root perennial ; corolla purple, 

 villose. Native place not ascertained. 



21. Stachys Annua; White Annual Stachys. Whorls six- 

 flowered ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, three-nerved, even, peti- 

 oled ; stem branched, erect. Root annual ; corollas yellow. 

 It flowers in July and August. Native of Germany, Austria, 

 Carniola, Switzerland, Piedmont, and France. 



22. Stachys Rugosa; Rough. Stachys. Whorls six-flow- 

 ered; leaves lanceolate, attenuated at the base, tomentose, 

 wrinkled, serrate; calices awnless. Shrubby, bushy, round, 

 very white. It flowers in July. Native of the Cape. 



23. Stachvs Arvensis; Corn Stachys, or Woundwort. 

 Whorls six-flowered ; leaves cordate, obtuse, crenate, some- 

 what hairy; stem weak, spreading. Root small, annual; 

 corolla small, scarcely exceeding the calix, pale purple, or 

 flesh-coloured. It flowers from July to August. Common 

 in the fields of Britain, and other parts of Europe, upon a 

 gravelly or calcareous soil. 



24. Stachys Latifolia; Broad-leaved Stachys. Whorls 

 many-flowered, subspiked ; upper lip bifid with the little seg- 

 ments, acute ; leaves broad, cordate, wrinkled, hairy. Shrub- 

 by ; flowering in June and July. Native place uncertain. 



25. Stachys Foeniculum. Plant erect, pubescent; leaves 

 cordate-ovate, dentated, tomentose; whorls subsexflorous ; 

 flowers blue. The whole of this plant has a scent very like 

 that of Fennel, and was found by Pursh on the banks of the 

 Missouri. It flowers in July. 



Steehelina; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia jEqualis. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: common 

 oblong, cylindric, imbricate; scales lanceolate, erect, termi- 

 nated by a shorter coloured scalelet. Corolla: compound 

 uniform, tubular; corollets hermaphrodite, equal; proper 

 one-petalled, funnel-form ; border five-cleft, equal, acute, 

 bell-shaped. Stamina: filamenta to each floret five, capillary; 

 antherae connate, tailed. Pistil: germen very short ; style 

 filiform; stigma double, oblong, obtuse, erect. Pericarp: 

 none ; calix unchanged. Seeds : solitary, oblong, very short, 

 four-cornered ; down branched or cloven, longer than the 

 calix. Receptacle: chaffy, flat; chaffs very short, perma- 

 nent. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Antherae : tailed. Down: 

 branched. Receptacle : with very short chaffs. The spe- 

 cies are, 



1. Steehelina Gnaphalodes. Leaves filiform, tomentose; 

 scales of the calix lanceolate, membranaceous at the tip, and 

 reflexed. This rises with a shrubby stalk about three feet 

 high, and divides into several branches; flowers terminating 

 in single heads, which are pretty large, and have scaly calices 

 ending in recurved spines; florets yellow. Native of the 

 Cape. Plant the cuttings in any of the summer months, 

 covering them closely with a bell or hand glass. When they 

 have made good roots, take them up carefully, and plant 

 them in pots filled with fresh and light, but not very rich 

 earth, and place them in the shade till they have taken new 

 root; then remove them into a sheltered situation, and in 

 autumn place them in the house. They do not require any 

 artificial heat in winter, but should have a dry air, their ten- 

 der shoots being very liable to rot with damp. This species 

 does not always ripen its seeds in England. 



2. Stsehelina Dubia. Leaves linear, toothletted ; scales of 

 the calix lanceolate; seed-down twice as long as the calices; 

 flowers terminating. It flowers in July. Biennial. Native 

 of Spain, the south of France, and Italy. Sow the seeds 

 upon a warm border of light ground in the spring, where the 

 plants are designed to stand ; for unless they are carefully 

 transplanted when young, they do not bear removal well, 



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