388 148. Sclarea. 32. LABIATtE. PL ex. cor. 



Sclarea pratensis. Meadow clary. 



Leaves heartshape, oblong, crenate ; uppermost pairs of 

 leaves embracing the stem ; whirls rather naked ; bractece 

 pointed, coloured, longer than the calyx ; teeth of the upper 

 lip of the calyx connivent ; galea glutinous. 



Sclarea pratensis foliis serratis, flora caeruleo, Dillen in Rati Sjfn. 237,1. 



Horminum sylvestre Fuchsii, Ger. em. 769,3. 



Horminum sylvestre vulgare, Park. 55. 



Hortninuiii pratense, Rivinus Man, 36. 



Salvia pratensis, Lin. S. P. 35. 



Sclarea pratensis, Moench Meth. 376. 



Clear-eye. 



Dry fields and hedges on chalk ; perennial ; July. 



Leaves wrinkled; lower leaves petioled; whirls 6-flowered; 

 calyx hirsute; hairs with heads, glandular; corolla violet- 

 colour, 4 times as long as the calyx. — Seeds in water acquire 

 a thick mucilage round them, used to put into the eyes to 

 get out substances which have flown into them. 



XXXI. 149. HORMINUM. Hippocrates. Oculus-Christi. 

 Calyx bellshape; mouth naked, 2-lipped; upper lip 

 S-toothed ; lower lip 2-cut ; galea arched, compressed, 

 nicked; lower lip 3-lobed; side lobes slender; middle lobe 

 rounded ; stamens 2 ; Jilaments with a traverse pedicell at 

 the bottom. — Flowers axillary, in whirls, spiked. 



Horminum sylvestre. Wild Ocidus-Christi. 



Leaves heartshape, oblong, sinuately and doubly cre- 

 nated, wrinkled ; teeth on the upper lip of the calyx con- 

 nivent ; corolla much slenderer and a little longer than the 

 ealyx. 



Horminum sylvestre lavendulae flore, Rati Syn. 237, 1 ; Park, 37. 

 Horminum sylvestre, Ger. em. 771, 1. 

 Salvia Verbenaca, Lin. S. P. 35. 

 Horminum coloratum, Moench Meth. 316. 

 Wild clary. 



Fields and pastures on chalk ; peren. ; June to October. 



Stem ascending; leaves rather bald; hractecB longer than 

 the calyx; calyx hirsute; hairs with heads, glandular; i 

 teeth inflected ; corolla blue, not twice as long as the 

 calyx ; tube constricted ; seeds round, black, smooth. — 

 Seeds in water acquire a mucilaginous envelope, so that 

 they are used, like those of meadow clary, to extract thing^s 

 • from the eyes. 



