282 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Labiates. 
Australian continent and in Tasmania is a very remarkable fact in botanical geography ; I am moreover very doubtful 
whether it should not be referred to the English L. Europceus, which extends to the Himalaya Mountains, and 
under which Mr. Bentham once placed it as a variety, and he further remarks that it is still more closely allied to 
L. smuatus of North America. It is indeed very probable that, as Bentham also says under the generic character 
in De Candolle's ' Prodromus,' out of the ten species he there enumerates, all may be referred to L. Virginicus, L., 
and L. Europaus, L.— A tall, erect, glabrous, leafy herb, 2-4 feet high. Stem quite glabrous or sparingly pilose. 
Leaves sessile, oblong or linear-lanceolate, coarsely, sharply toothed, glabrous or sometimes pubescent above, punc- 
tate beneath, 2-5 inches long. Whorls small, axillary, sessile, many-flowered. Flowers small, white. Bracts 
subulate, rigid. Calyx eampanulate, four- or five-toothed. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, campanulate, 
quadrifid; segments nearly equal. Upper stamens included, sterile, with capitate apices; lower fertile. Nucules 
compressed, truncate, smooth, with thickened margins, narrowed at the base. (Name from Aukos, a wolf, and ttovs, 
afoot; in allusion to the appearance of the inflorescence.) 
1. Lycopus Australis (Br. Prodr. 500) ; caule erecto glaberrimo v. parce hispidulo, foliis anguste 
lanceolatis grosse serratis glabris v. superne puberulis, calyeibus 5-dentatis, bracteis subulatis, nuculis tubo 
calycis brevioribus.— Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 178. L. Europe a, argutus, Benth. Lab. 186. (Gunn, 
Hab. Not uncommon in moist, shaded places, Gunn.— (PI. Jan.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Gen. III. PEUNELLA, L. 
Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, reticulato-venosus, bilabiatus; labio superiore tridentato, inferiore bifido. 
Corolla tubus amplus, ascendens, intus basi pilis squamisve annulatus, labio superiore galeato, inferiore de- 
pendente. Stamina exserta, filamentis basi edentulis apice breviter bidentatis, dente inferiore antherifero; 
anthens per paria approximatis, loculis divaricatis. Stylus glaber, bifidus, lobis acutis. Nueula siccas, laves. 
— Herbaj subsimplices ; verticillastris dense spicatis, hraeteathi bracteia rmgnis, persistentibus ; coroUa 
carulea. 
A small genus, consisting of only three species, of which the Tasmanian one is found in very many parts of 
the world; it forms a small, peretmial-rooted herb, 2-6 inches high, with petiolate, oblong, entire or variously 
smuate or toothed leaves.-^ solitary or several from the root, erect or ascending, glabrous or more or less 
pubescent. leave, peholate, 1-2 inches long, oblong or ovate, entire or variously toothed or sinuate. fTtorU 
arranged m tenmual spikes, six-nowered, subtended by large, imbricating floral leaves or bracts. Col*, campanu- 
ate, two-hpped ; upper Up three-toothed, lower trifid. CWa blue, its tube longer than the calvx, ascending, two- 
hpped ; upper hp arched, concave, lower three-lobed ; lateral lobes deflexed, middle one erenate. SUmm, all fertile ; 
filaments toothed towards the apex. Antker, conniving; cells divaricating. Style bifid. (Name derived by Ray 
Irom Xnmme, the German name of a complaint it was used to cure.) 
1. PruneUa vulgaris (Linn. Sp. PI. 837); foliis petiolatis oblongis ovatisve integris dentatisve, 
calycs lab,o supenore dentibu, aristati,.-^. P rodr . m . BentL fc ^ ^ ^ \ gl , 
Ha». Common throughout the Island, by waysides, in pastures, etc.-(Fl. Dec.) (v. v.) 
A ' ?h S T' ?" » " Ud ViC,0ria; thr0Ugh0Ut E ° c °P e - North Afri ^ Northern and Western 
Into of Me^tc ntamS Peni " SUla ° f India ' China ' Japan ' * eml,erate N ° rth America ' and the 
Gen. IV. SCUTELLARIA, L. 
0*. campanulas, 2-labiatus; labiis integris, post anthesin clansis, labio superiore deeiduo e sepalis 
