100 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Stachys. 



Gerarde celebrates this herb as a vulneraiy, and his whole account 

 of its virtues is worth reading for amusement, if not instruction, 



4. S. germanica. Downy Woundwort. 



Many flowers in a whorl. Leaves crenate, densely silky ; 

 woolly beneath. Stem woolly, erect. 



5. germanica. Linn. Sp.Pl.S\2. mild. v. 3. 99. Fl. Br. 634. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 829. Fl. Dan. t. 684. Jacq. Austr. f. 319. 



S. n. 255. Hall. Hist. v.\.\\2. 



Stachys. Fuchs. Hist. 7G6.f. 



S. Fuchsii. RaiiSyn.239. Ger. Em. 695. f. Bauh. Hist.v.3. 



p. 2. 319./. 320. 

 S. montana. Riv.Monop. Irr. t. 27./. 1. 

 S. alba latifolia major. Barrel. Ic. t. 297. 



In fields, hedges, and by road sides, on a limestone soil, but rare. 



Chiefly confined to Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. Frequent about 

 Woodstock and Witney. The present Bishop of Carlisle ob- 

 served it, in great plenty, in the corn-fields at Brizenorton ; the 

 Rev. Dr. Abbot on Luton downs, Bedfordshire ; and the Rev. 

 J. Hemsted on a hill 2 miles from Bedford. 



Perennial. September. 



Roots tufted. Stems quite erect, 2 feet high, leafy, unbranched, 

 densely clothed with soft, white, woolly hairs pointing down- 

 ward. Leaves stalked, ovate, acute, copiously crenate, reti- 

 culated with numerous veins ; the upper side very thickly co- 

 vered with white silky hairs ; lower with close matted wool. 

 Whorls numerous, many-flowered, axillary ; the upper ones 

 crowded into a leafy spike. Bracteas and cabjx very woolly. 

 Cor. light purple ; the upper lip cloven, shaggy ; palate striped 

 with white. Seeds oval, blackish, smooth. 



.5. S. arvensis. Corn Woundwort. 



Six flowers in a whorl. Stem weak. Leaves heart-shaped, 

 obtuse, crenate, slightly hairy. 



S. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PI. 814. Willd. v. 3. 106. Fl. Br. 634. 



Engl. Bot.v. 17. t. I 154. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4.t.4\. 'Hook. Scot. 



183. Fl.Dan.t.587. 

 S. arvensis minima. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 27./. 2. 

 Trixago n. 23 1 . Hall. Hist. v.\.\Q\. 

 Sideritis humilis, lato obtuso folio. Raii Syn. 242. 

 Round Iron Wort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 33. f. 12. 



In gravelly, sandy or chalky fields, very general. 



Annual. Jnly, August. 



Root small, fibrous. Herbage green, slightly hairy. Stem branch- 

 ed, weak, recumbent, or ascending, either hairy or smooth. 

 Leaves on short stalks, ovate, or slightly heart-shaped, bluntish, ' 



