f 



i 



Ajuga.] 



LXIir. LABIATuE. 



323 



Phyt. ii. p. 129.) has proved the two supposed species to be the results 

 of situation. 



3. T. 



* 



(cut 



Rare. 



lous, leaves pinnatifid, segments oblong quite entire or incise di- 

 varicate green on both sides, floral leaves similar, Avhorls axil- 

 lary S-flowered, calyx gibbous at the base on the under side 

 inflated tubular, the teeth lanceolate equal. 



In a stony and steep valley, facing the south, near the end of 

 Boxhill farthest from Burford Bridge. 0, 8. 



4. T. "^ Chamce'drys L. (Wall G.) ; leaves ovate incigo-serrate 

 wedo'e-shaped and entire at the base gi-een on both sides, floral 

 leaves smaller nearly entire, whorls of 2 — 6 flowers, upper ones 

 racemose, calyx decllnate campanulate, the teeth lanceolate- 

 acuminate nearly equal, flowers axillary, stem ascending. JE. B, 



t. 680. 



Borders of fields and mostly ruined walls; Winchelsea Castle, Sus- 

 sex; Gateshead, Durham; Stapleton, Radnorshire; city walls of 

 Norwich; plentiful Near Forfar and Kelly- Angus ; Methven wood, 

 Perthshire. Near Cork. %. 7. — Flowers reddish-purple, large, 

 handsome, mostly in the terminal axils. 



\_Te^lcrium regium Schreh., supposed by Mr. Benthaui to be a vai\ 

 of T.flavum, a plant peculiar to the region of the Mediterranean, is 

 said to have been found on a declivity of the Bloreng near Aberga- 

 venny ; but it cannot be indigenous.] 



7. A'^juGA Linn, 



Bugle. 

 Cor. with the tithe ex- 



Cah ovate, nearly equal, 5-cleft. 

 serted : npper Up short, erect, entire or emarginate ; lower one 

 larger, patent, trifld. Stam, 4, ascending, protruded above the 

 upper lip; cells of the anthers diverging or divaricate, at length 

 confluent. — Name said by Pliny to be corrupted from Ahiga 

 (dbigo partum, to prevent) of the Latins, a medicinal plant. 

 aUied to this; but the Greek alv^ (accus. alvya) implied the same 

 property, and is the more obvious derivation. 



1, A. rcptans L. (common i?.) ; glabrous or downy, stem 

 solitary with creeping scions, leaves ovate or obovate sinuate or 

 quite entire. E. B. t, 489. 



Moist pastures and woods, abundant. "2/.. 5, 6. — Leaves broadly 

 ovate, more or less crenate, lower ones and those on the runners taper- 

 ing into a footstalk. Flowering- stem erect, with sessile Zea/;es. Flowers 

 blue (sometimes white or flesh-coloured), in wJwrls of 6 — 20 from 

 the axils of the upper leaves or bracteas, which are often purplish. 



2. A. pyramiddlis L. (pyramidal B.); hairy or glabrous, 

 upper or all the whorls spicate, scions none, radical leaves ob- 

 long-ovate lar^e more or less crenate, floral leaves broadly 

 ovate quite entire or cbscurely sinuate longer than the flowers 



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