370 124. Scorodonia. 32.LABIATJE. PL ex. cor, 



VI. 124. SCORODONIA. Val. Cordus. Wood-sage. 

 Calyx tubular, bellied at the bottom, 2-lipped ; upper 



Jip not cut, ovate, upright; lower lip 4-toothed; 2 side teeth 

 short; 2 lower teeth jutting forwards; galea truncated, 

 deeply cut; lobes rounded; lip 3-cut, side-lobe oblique 

 spread ; middle lobe reverse heartshape ; stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, exserted ; gynolasis or cariopsides smooth. — 

 Flowers racemose, terminal, yellow ; racemes leafy. 



Scorodonia soUtaria. Single-Jiowered wood-sage. 



Stems upright ; leaves heartshape, rather downy, toothed, 

 petioled ; racemes axillary, facing one way. 



Scorodonia seu Salvia -agrestis, Raii Syn. 245, 1 ; Ger. em. 662, I. 

 Scorodonia seu scordium alterum quibusdam et salvia agrestis, Park. 111. 

 Teucrium Scorodonia, Lin. S. P. 789. 

 Teucrium salviaefolium, Salisb. Prod. 76. 

 Scorodonia heteromalla, Mcench Meth. 384. 

 Scorodonia solitaria, Stokes B. M. M. 3, 374. 

 - TVood sage. Garlick sage. 



Woods and heaths ; perennial ; July. 

 Rhizoma creeping; stem 4-sided, panicled, racemose; 

 leaves wrinkled ; flowers peduncled, yellow ; stamens violet. 



VII. 125. LAVANDULA. Gesner. Lavender, 

 Calyx tubular, ovate; outside many-ribbed; inside bald; 



edge not cut or but slightly toothed; periphyllum ovate, 

 projecting; corolla tubular, long, bellied above ; galea large, 

 narrower than the lip, flat, 2-cut ; lip 3-lobed ; lobes equal, 

 blunt; stamens 4, didynamous, from the side of the tube, 

 convergent, enclosed. — Stem herbaceous or &hx\xhhy', flow era 

 spiked, bracteated. 



Lavandula Tragi. Tragus's lavender. 



Leaves sessile, lanceolate, linear, not cut, edge turned 

 under ; spike interrupted ; bractece lanceolate. 



Lavandula flore cserutea, Ger. em, 583, 1, 

 Lavandula major, sive vuls:aris. Park. 73. 

 Lavandula Spica, Lin. S. P. 800. ' 



Lavandula Tragi, Salisb, Prod. 78. 

 Lavender spike. 



Cultivated shrubby; June and July. 



Stem upright; stem- leaves scarcely turned under: brancli- 

 leaves turned under, airy underneath; hairs stellate ; bractece 

 hrown ; floweis violet, sweet-scented. — Spikes yield much 

 essential oil in distillation, oil very sweet- scented, contain- 

 ing a large proportion of camphire; flowers nervine, anti- 

 spasmodic, cephalic. 



