cent on the outside. Nucules subtrigonous-ovoid, fuscous, very finely 

 sliagreened. 



Doicny Woundwort. 



French, Uplaire d'Allemagne. German, DeuUcher ZUst. 



SPECIES III.— ST ACHY S PALUSTRIS. Linn. 



Pl-vte MLXIX. 



Reich. le. FI. Germ, ct Helv. Vol. XVlll. Tub. MCCI. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1744. 



Rootstock with very long creeping fleshy subterranean stolons. 

 Stem stout, erect, simple or brajiched. Radical leaves not persistent 

 at the time of flowering ; stem leaves sessile or subsessile, oblong, 

 lanceolate-oblong or strapshaped-oblong, abrupt or subcordate at the 

 base, acute, crenate-serrate or serrate, green on both sides, not 

 rugose. Lower pairs of bracts resembling the leaves ; bracteoles strap- 

 phaped-subulate, not above one-fourth the length of the calyx. Verti- 

 cillasters in a long rather lax spikclike raceme. Calyx not oblique, 

 pubescent with long simple and short gland-tipped hairs; teeth as 

 long as the tube, triangular-subulate, spinous-pointed. Corolla tube 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx teeth, shorter than the undermost of the 

 pairs of bracts. Nucules shining, firtely punctured. Plant green, 

 more or less thinly clothed with short rather stiflF hairs. 



By the sides of rivers and ditches, cultivated ground, and by road- 

 sides. Common, and universally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock with very numerous white fleshy subterranean stolons, 

 which creep in all directions. Stem quadrangular, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 sometimes simple, sometimes with numerous erect branches. Leaves 

 2 to 5 inches long, generally nearly sessile, but sometimes with a stalk 

 shorter than their own breadth, regularly serrate, with the teeth blunt 

 or acute. Whorls (i to 10-flowered. Calyx about ? inch long, 

 bell-shaped, often tinged with purple; limb spreading. Corolla about 

 ^ inch long, purplish rose; lower lip variegated Avith white. Nucules 

 fuscous-bro^^^l, ovoid, subtriquetrous. 



Marsh Woundwort. 

 French, Hpiaire des marais. German, Sump/ Zicst. 

 This plant formerly had a great reputation as a vulnerary, being strongly recom- 

 mended by Gerarde, in Lis Herbal. He records that, being in Kent visiting a patient, 

 he accidentally heard of a countryman who had cut himself badly with a scythe, and 

 had bound a quantity of this herb, bruised with grease, and " laid upon in manner 

 of a pultesse " over the wound, which healed in a week, though it would "have 

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