DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophularia. 139 



S. Scorodonia. Linn. Sp. PL 864. IVilld. v. 3. 271 . Fl. Br. 664. 



Engl. Bot. v.^\.t. 2209. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 15.9. 

 S. Scordii folio. Grisl. Lusit. 75. 

 S. Scorodoniae foliis. Moris, v. 2. 482. sect. 5. t. 35. Pluk. Al- 



mag.33S. Phyt.t.59.f.5. Rail Syn.*2S3. 

 Sage Figwort. Pctiv. H. Brit. t. 35./. 1 1 . 



On the banks of rivulets in the south, very rare. 



Between the port and St. Hilary, Jersey. Sherard. About St. Ives, 

 Cornwall, plentifully, near the seashore. Mr. E. Lhwyd; and 

 Huds. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Stems about a yard high, leafy, branched, bluntly quadrangular, 

 clothed with minute, soft, spreading hairs. Leaves downy in 

 like manner underneath, stalked, heart-shaped and 3-ribbed at 

 the base, veiny, doubly serrated ; the serratures and points of 

 those which accompany the flowers most acute. Fl. on axillary, 

 forked, downy stalks, composing a long leafy cluster. Tube of 

 the corolla pale ; lower lip (turned uppermost) dull purple, the 

 interior lobe greenish. Caps, ovate, smooth. Calyx downy. 



Grisley speaks of this plant as " an efficacious remedy for ulcers j" 

 probably such as are scrofulous. 



4. S. vernalis. Yellow Figwort. 



Leaves heart-shaped, doubly serrated, downy. Flower- 

 stalks axillary, solitary, forked, leafy. Corolla without 

 an interior lobe. 



5. vernalis. Linn.Sp.Pl.SQA. mild.v.3.274. n.Br.664. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 8. t. 567. Hook. Scot. ]89. Lond.t.70. H. Dan. t. 411. 



S. n. 327. Hall. Hist. V. I. 141. 



S.floreluteo. Bauh.Prodr.\\2.f. Ger.Em.7l7.f. Riv.Monop. 



Irr.t.l07.f.2. 

 S. montana maxima latifolia, flore luteo. Barrel. Ic. t. 273. 

 Lamium Pannonicum aliud. Clus. Pann. 594. f. 595. Hist. v. 2. 



38./. 



In thickets, and under hedges, but rare. 



Near Bury St. Edmund's. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. In Surrey. 

 Huds. About Newburgh, Yorkshire. Rev. Archdeacon Peirson. 

 In a lane about two miles south of Stifkey, Norfolk, on the 

 right hand side. Dr. Hooker. It is also said to grow in Berk- 

 shire, Essex, and several parts of Wales ; yet neither Dillenius 

 nor Ray takes notice of this species. 



Biennial. April, May. 



Root tuberous, scaly. Herb downy, of a light pleasant green. 

 Stem hollow, about 2 feet high, with 4 or 5 slightly winged an- 

 gles. Leaves in the latter case 3 together ; otherwise opposite j 

 the uppermost uUernate ; all stalked, broadly heart-shaped, 

 acute, sharply and doubly serrated, veiny. F/. light yellow, on 



