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14. BALLOTA, L. 



Cymes many -flowered, dense; calyx -teeth 5-10, 

 spreading ; corolla-tube with a ring of hairs inside, upper 

 lip erect ; stamens 4. Not alpine. 



B. nigra, L. (including alba, L., fcetida, Lam.), Stink- 

 ing Horehound ; very foetid ; hedge-banks, very common. 



15. PRUNELLA,* L. 



Cymes few-flowered, in dense terminal heads, sur- 

 rounded by orbicular leaf-like bracts; calyx closed in 

 fruit ; upper lip of corolla flat, lower lip 2-lobed ; stamens 

 4, filaments bifid. Not alpine. 



P. vulgaris, L., Self-heal, Heal-all ; very common. P. 

 alba, Pall, (laciniata, L.); flowers yellowish-white, leaves 

 pinnatifid; dry banks; Southern and Western Switzer- 

 land, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, local. P. grandiflora, Jacq. ; 

 flowers large, purple (f-i in.), stem less leafy than vul- 

 garis ; banks and meadows, common. 



1 6. SCUTELLARIA, L. 



Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, purple or violet ; 

 calyx 2-lipped, closed after flowering ; corolla-tube long, 

 not hairy inside, upper lip helmet-shaped, lower lip 3- 

 lobed ; stamens 4. 



vS. galericulata, L., Skull-cap; flowers blue, about 

 f in., stem 6-18 in., branched, leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 glabrous ; water-sides. ,S. hastifolia, L. ; flowers violet, 

 cymes in a terminal leafy spike, leaves ovate or lanceolate- 

 hastate, glabrous ; Rhone Valley. S. alpina, L. (PI. 102) ; 



* Continental botanists spell this word Brunella. 



