114 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Prunella. 



Gratiola latifolia. Ger. Em. 581./. 



Small Hood-Mint. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 34. /. 11 . 



On moist heaths, in a gravelly soil, less common than the last. 



Perennial. July, August. 



More branched than the preceding, and scarcely one third its size. 

 Leaves broader, not at all wrinkled ; either quite entire, or di- 

 lated and notched at the base, so as to approach a hastate form. 

 Fl. not half so large as in S. galericulaia, of a delicate pink co- 

 lour, rarely inclining to blue 5 thelovver lip white, dotted with red. 



302. PRUNELLA. Self-heal. 



Linn: Gen. 301. Fl.Br.646. 



Brunella. Juss.]\6. Tourn.t. 84. Lam.t.b\6. 



Cal. bell-shaped, two-lipped ; upper lip flat, dilated, very 

 abrupt, with 3 very short acute teeth ; lower much nar- 

 rower, but about as long, straight, separated half way 

 down into 2 spinous-pointed segments. Cor. ringent ; 

 tube short, cylindrical ; throat longer and wider ; upper 

 lip concave, entire, inflexed ; lower reflexed, in 3 round- 

 ed, obtuse, crenate lobes, the middle one broadest. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, the 2 uppermost shortest, all forked, 

 more or less perfectly, at the summit. Anth. on the 

 lower branch of each filament, opening transversely by 2 

 valves. Germ, four-lobed. Sfi/le thread-shaped, directed, 

 like the stamens, towards the upper lip, and on a level 

 with them. Stigma in two sharp recurved points. Seeds 

 4, oval, in the bottom of the closed, dry, reticulated 

 calyx. 



Perennial, downy or roughish, Europaean herbs, with un- 

 divided or pinnatifid leaves, and solitary, terminal,whorl- 

 ed, dense, bracteated spikes of dark blue, or purplish, 

 inodorous Jlowers. Herbage not aromatic. Species few. 



1. V. vulgaris. Common Self-heal, or Slough-heal. 



All the leaves ovate-oblong, stalked. Teeth of the upper 

 lip of the calyx scarcely discernible. 



P. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 837. mild.v.3. \76. Fl. Br. 646. Engl. 



Bot.v.]4.t.96\. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 42. Mart. Rust. t.\37 . 



Hook. Scot. \85. Fl. Dan. t. 910. 

 Prunella. Rail Syn. 238. Ger. Em. 632. f. Fuchs. Hist. 621. f. 

 Brunella. Riv. Monop. Irr. i.29. Dod. Pempt. 136./. 

 B. n. 277. Hall. Hist. V. 1.120. 

 Consolida minor. Matth. falgr.v. 2. 312./. Camer. Epit.7 03. f. 



(5. Brunella minor. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 120. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 29. 

 /. 1,' wanting in some copies. 



