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following sentence in S. : " Upper lip of corolla not 

 rostrate, with the margin on each side furnished with a 

 triangular tooth immediately below the apex, but with- 

 out any tooth below the middle." Why, or when, a lip 

 is rostrate, or has any '' tooth below the middle,' I do not 

 know; but the upper petal of the corolla is here a very 

 close gathered hood, with the style emergent downwards, 

 and the stamens all hidden and close set within. 



In this action of the upper petal, and curve of the 

 style, the flower resembles the Labiates,* and is the 

 proper link between them and the Draconidse. The 

 capsule is said by S. to be oval-ovoid. As eggs always 

 are oval, I don't feel farther informed by the epithet. 

 The capsule and seed both are of entirely indescribable 

 shapes, with any number of sides very foxglove-like, 

 and inordinately large. The seeds of the entire family 

 are i ovoid-subtrigonous.' S. 



11. I find only two species given as British by S., 

 namely, Sylvatica and Palustris ; but I take first for the 

 Regina, the beautiful Arctic species D. 1105, Flora 

 Suecica, 555. Hose- colon red in the stem, pale pink in 

 the flowers (corollse pallide incarnatse), the calices furry 

 against the cold, whence the present ngly name, Hirsuta. 

 Only on the highest crests of the Lapland Alps. 



(2) Rosea, D. 225, there called Sylvatica, as by S., 

 presumably because " in pascuis subhumidis non rarse." 



* Compare especially Galeopsis Angustifolia, D. 3031. 



