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In meadows and pastures common. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Hoot somewhat creeping. Stems a span high, erect or ascending, 

 leafy, square, downy at the opposite sides with upright hairs ; 

 branched chiefly in the lower part. Leaves stalked, ovate or 

 oblong, acute or bluntish, crenate, or wavy, or, in variety /3, 

 quite entire ; paler beneath, with downy ribs. Fl. numerous, 

 deep purplish blue, in dense, solitary, erect, cylindrical, whorled 

 spikes ; each whorl of 6 flowers, subtended by a pair of broad, 

 obtuse, ribbed, partly coloured, bracteas, shorter than the calyx. 

 The barren branch of the 2 upper stamens is sometimes shorten- 

 ed and blunted. 



This herb is, in Germany, reckoned salutary for ulcerations of the 

 throat and mouth, called in the language of that country die 

 Breune, whence, says Ray, came the name of Brunella. Linnseus 

 softened that barbarous appellation into Prunella, without ren- 

 dering it more classical. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



This order of the artificial system of Linnaeus consists, except 

 Digitalis, of his own natural order o^ Personatce, 40, and 

 comprehends two of Jussieu's, Pediculares, 35, and Sc7'0- 

 phularice, 40. To the former belong, more or less exactly, 

 all the British genera of our first section, characterized 

 by a four-cleft calyx ; as well as Pedicularis, whose calyx 

 is five-cleft, and Orohanche, which has a two-lipped, or 

 two-leaved, calyx. To the Scrophularice belong all our 

 genera with a five"-cleft calyx, except Pediadaris and Liii- 

 ncea, the latter being properly referred to Jussieu's Ca- 

 ■prifolia, 58, the first section of. which only really consti- 

 tutes the order so named. The Pediculares and true Scro- 

 phularice have been united by Mr. Brown, Prodr. N. 

 Holl. V. 1. 433, under the appellation of Scrophularina:. 

 Two new orders have nevertheless been recently founded, 

 out of these, by M. Richard, the Melampyracecc and 

 Orohancliece. I presume to think them superfluous, and 

 shall offer my reasons under the genera whose names 

 they bear. 



Mr. Brown thus defines his Scrophularinee. 



Calyx divided, permanent. 



