PL ex. cor. 32. LABIATiE. 150. Brunella. 3S9 



XXXII. 150. BRUNELLA. Brunsfels. Self heal. 



Calyx tubular; mouth naked, lipped; upper lip flat, 

 truncated, 3-cut ; lower lip shorter, 2-cut; g-o/ea concave, 

 either nicked or not ; lip 3-Iobed ; middle lobe largest, 

 nicked ; stamens 4, didynamous ; jUaments forked or two- 

 toothed; one branch antherbearing, the other naked ; stigma 

 2-cut. — Stem simple ; jiowers spiked, terminal, in dense 

 whirls; hractete large, fringed or torn. 



Brunella vulgaris. Common selfheal. 



Stem ascending; leaves petioled, oblong, ovate, toothed 

 at the bottom ; upper lip of the calyx truncated, 3-toothed, 

 ending in short bristles; middle tooth as broad again as 

 the others. 



Prunella, Raii Sm. 238, 1 ; Ger. em. 632, 1 ; Rivinus Mon. 29. 

 Prunella vulgaris, Park. 1680; Lin. S. P. 837. 

 Brunella vulgaris, Stokes Bot. M. M. 377 ; Mcench Meth. 414. 

 Prunel, Carpenters herb. Sickle wort. \ Hook-heal. 



Fields and pastures ; perennial ; July and August. 



Stem much branched, hairy ; hairs upright ; leaves hairy, 

 slightly toothed ; spike solitary, blunt; hractece. heavi^hsupe, 

 pointed, fringed ; upper Up of calyx dilated ; lower lip 

 deeply 2-cut; corolla violet colour. — Herb used both in- 

 ternally in decoction, and externally in the cure of fresh 

 wounds ; also in the inflammatory sore throat. 



XXXIIL 151. SCUTELLARIA. Cortusus. Skullcap. 

 Calyx tubular, short; mouth naked, lipped; lips not 

 cut, pointed J paraphyllum concave, incumbent on the 

 upper lip ; tube of the corolla longer than the calyx, bent 

 at bottom ; upper lip compressed, arched ; mouth 2-lobed ; 

 lower broadest, nicked ; seeds closed up in the calyx by the 

 enlarged paraphyllum. — Flowers solitary, axillary ; bracttce 

 2 to each peduncle. 



1. Scutellaria galericulata. Hooded skullcap. 



Leaves heartshape, lanceolate, distantly crenated ; floivets 



solitary, axillary. 



Cassida palustris valgatior, flore cajruleo, Raii Syn. 244, 1, 



Lysimachia galericulata, Ger. em. 477, 10. 



Lysimachia caerulea, sive latifolia major, Park. ^21. 



Scutellaria, Rivinus Mon. 77. 



Scutellaria galericulata, Lin. S. P. 835. 



Cassida galericulata, Mosnch Meth. 413. 



Hooded loosestrife, Blut skullcap. 



