2 Mr. C. A. Stevens on Scrophularia aquatica. 



doubt of their distinctness. Roots are, I understand, in the 

 possession of an eminent British botanist, who, by cultivation 

 thereof, will doubtless be enabled shortly to determine the 

 point beyond dispute. 



In the mean time it may be useful to give the respective 

 characters of the two plants. They are as follow : 



1. S, aquatica, Linn. Foliis cordato-ovatis rotundato-obtusis cre- 

 nato-serratis, inferioribus auriculatis, caule petiolisque alatis, 

 panicula terminali, cymis lateralibus corymbosis inulti-(8 — 15)- 

 floris, laciniis calycinis subrotundis margine late scariosis, sta- 

 rainodio subrotundo-reniformi integro, capsula ovata subacuta. 



Betonica aquatica, Dalech. Hist. 1356. Ger. Em. 715. f. 



S. radice fibrosa, Moris. Oxon. ii. 482. s. 5. t. 8, f. 4. 



S. aquatica major, Raii Hist. 764. 



S. foliis conjugatis, &c.. Hall. Helv. 618. Boehm. Lips. 66. n. 150. 



S. aquatica, Linn. Herb. Sp. PI. 864. Curt. Fl. Lond. v. t. 44. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 854. Krock. Fl. Siles. ii. 393. Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 196. 

 Sm. Fl. Brit. 6G3. Hook. Fl. Scot. 189. Grev. Fl. Edin. IS7 . Sm. 

 E. Fl. iii. 139. (diagn. only). Sm.Herb. n. 2. With Bot. Arr. (ed. 7.) 

 iii. 738. Hook. Br. Fl. (ed. 4.) 239. *Sebast. et Mauri Fl. Rom. 

 205. *Pollinus Fl. Veron. 325. 



S. scorodonia (aquatica ? Sm. not.) Linn. Herb, (without ref. to 

 Sp.Pl.) 



S. Balbisii, " Hornem. Fl. Hafn. ii. 577." Bluff et Fingerh. (ed. 2.) 

 i. p. 2. 389. Koch. Syn. 515. *Guss. Fl. Sic. Prodr. ii. 172. 



Hab. Cambridgeshire, very common, Mr. H. Baber. Shropshire, 

 common, Mr. W. A. Leighton. Very common in ditches and damp 

 places in Kent, and probably general throughout England. 



Perennial, July — September. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, from 2 — 8 feet high, branched 

 below, mostly simple above, square, winged at the angles. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong or elliptical, cordate at the base, very ob- 

 tuse, uppermost occasionally subacute, the lower ones with 

 one or a pair of variously shaped stalked or sessile accessorial 

 leaflets, smooth or downy beneath, doubly-, the upper ones 

 most simply-, crenate. Petioles winged, channelled, decurrent. 

 Panicle of many distant, mostly opposite, dichotomous, many 

 flowered, compact, corymbose cymes. Peduncles and pedicels 

 glandulose. Bracts linear obtuse, rarely (as in the specimen 

 in the Linnaean Herbarium, which is, however, apparently 



• For these references I am indebted to Mr. C. C. Babington. 



