80 ENGLISH BOTA>nr. 



Section II.— CHAM^PITYS. Benth. 



Verticillasters reduced to pairs of flowers, or rarely 4-flowered. 

 CoroUa yellow or rose colour. 



SPECIES III.— AJUGA CHAMJEPITYS. Sehrel. 



Plate MXO. 



Beieh. Tc. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIH. Tab. MCCXXXV. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gfall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 616. 



Annual. Stems decumbent, branched near the base, with numerous 

 pairs of leaves. Radical leaves decayed by the time of flowering, 

 stalked, narrowly oblanceolate, nearly entire or re2:)and ; stem leaves 

 stalked, wedgeshaped, 3-toothed or cut into 3 rather short lobes. Bracts 

 tripartite, with long linear entire lobes, herbaceous, the uppermost 

 one adpressed. Verticillasters occupying more than half of the stem, 

 2-flowered, the lower ones rather distant or all approximate. Calyx 

 woolly with bristly hairs; teeth triangular, much longer than the 

 tube, ciliated with bristly hairs. Corolla shorter than any of the 

 bracts ; middle lobe of the lower lip obcordate. 



In cultivated fields, on chalky soils. Local. Common in the chalk 

 districts of Kent and Surrey. Besides these counties it occurs in 

 those of Wilts, Hants, Essex, Cambridge, Herts, Bedford, and North- 

 ampton. Dr. St. Brody has sent me a specimen from " waste ground 

 near Lanthony Abbey," Gloucestershire. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



Stem diffusely branched, 3 to 9 inches long, the branches ascending 

 at the apex. Lowest leaves 1 to 2 inches long; bracts f to 1^ inch 

 long. Flowers about ^ inch long, bright yellow, the lower lip speckled 

 with red. Nucules fuscous, oblong-cylindrical, longitudinally curved, 

 honeycombed, with the scar on the convex face occuppng more 

 than half the length of the nucule. Plant green, densely hairy with 

 stiif hairs, which consist of a few long joints; stem generally purplish 

 red. 



Ground Pine. 



French, Bugle faux-pin. German, Gelllhinuger Giinsel. 

 Dr. Prior gives ns the etjrmology of the common name of this species thus : xafiaU 

 TTirvc, from xnfioi, ground, and irlrvc, pine, so called from its terebinthinate odour, 

 the Forget-me-not of all authors till the beginning of this century. 



