244 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Lamium maculatum L. Spotted Dead Nettle. 



Flowers large, light pink, or purple, rarely white. Leaves often 

 spotted and blotched with white, petioled ovate-cordate, acuminate, 

 hairy, unequally toothed. Very variable in size and habit. 



Woods and hedge-banks ; common. April to October. 



Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Persia. 



Lamium longiflorum Ten. 



Flowers very large and handsome (25-30 mm.), rose-purple, 

 rarely white, upper lip bifid. Corolla-tube much dilated at the 

 throat, at least twice as long as the calyx. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrescent. Leaves all petioled, the upper ones 

 acuminate, deeply toothed. Stems thick, glabrous, and often plum- 

 coloured. 



Stony places in Alpine valleys ; rare. May to October. 



Distribution. Maritime Alps, Dauphiny, Cevennes, Corsica, 

 N. Italy, Bosnia, Montenegro, Algeria. 



PRUNELLA L. (or BRUNELLA). 

 Prunella grandiflora L. 



Stem erect, green, or reddish. Leaves petioled, oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse or sub-acute, entire or with very small teeth. Corolla 

 blue- violet, handsome (20-25 mm.), about twice as large as in the 

 common Self-Heal. Upper lip of calyx with 3 pronounced triangu- 

 lar, acute teeth. Flowers in a short terminal head. 



Dry, rocky places from the plains to the Alps. June to August. 



Distribution. Alps, Jura, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Central and 

 Southern Europe. 



SCUTELLARIA L. 



Scutellaria alpina L. 



Stem procumbent and ascending, 4-8 inches high, leafy and 

 branched. Leaves ovate, crenate-serrate ; lower leaves stalked ; 

 upper leaves sessile, more or less hairy like the flowers and stems. 

 Flowers in a rather dense terminal spike with membranous, im- 

 bricate bracts which vary in colour like the flowers (being not 

 always green). Flowers mauve or bluish purple, with the lower 

 lip whitish ; sometimes purple, red, or white, and the lower lip 

 tinted accordingly. Upper lip of corolla trifid ; lower lip un- 

 divided, large. Calyx very small. 



Dry, stony places' in the Alps and lower Alps, chiefly on lime- 

 stone ; local. June to August. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Western Switzerland, Western Alps, 

 Cevennes, Pyrenees, Siberia. Mont de la Chens in the Var. 



The colour of the flowers is extremely variable, and they often 

 vary even on the same plant, 



