S24 LXIII. LABIAT^E. [Bcillota., 



and crowded Into a pyramidal and tetragonal fornij upper ones 

 usually coloured. B. B. t. 1270. 



Highland pastures, rare. Ben Nevis ; plentiful at the BuruofKil- 

 ligov/er and on the Ord of Caithness; Tor Aichaltie, near Brahan 

 Castle, Ross-shire; Appin ; Strath Errie, Inverness-shire; Isle of 

 Lewis. 7^. 5,6. — Stern 4: — 6 inches high, /.eai^es gradually be- 

 coming smaller from the base upwards. 



3. 



glutinous. 



Tribe IV. Nepete^. Cor. 1-lipped. Stamens ascendin<r or 



(^i^ 



^ A. alpina L. (cilpine B.) ; stem erect Iialry witliout scions 

 cauline leaves oblong elliptical or ovate narrowed at the base' ' 

 lower ones rather longer stalked, lloral leaves ovate or cuneate 

 coarsely toothed membranaceous green on both sides thinly 

 hairy, upper ones scarcely as long'as the flowers, upper whorls 

 of flowers spicate, lower ones distant. E. B. t. 477. 



Mountains; rare. Wales. County of Durham ( 5*^., denied bv 

 Mr. Winch); Castleton, Derbyshire. Cave-hill, Belfast. Ij.. 7.-I- 

 We have seen no British specimens of this plant, and the Scotch ones, 

 so called, have proved to be only A, reptans. The plant above described ] fii/.^*' 



is the Swiss one {A, Genevensis L.): it is not improbable, as Fries I hi (■ 



says, that the true A. alpina L. has scions, although not preserved I H-e'lo 



with thespecimen, and ifso it may be only an alpine form of ^.rejoto^s. "^ ' ' 



4. A. Chamoi'pitijs Sm. {Ground-Pine, ov yelloio 5.); hairy, 

 stems much branched spreading, leaves tripartite their seg- 

 ments linear entire, floral leaves similar longer than the axillary toalion's 

 solitary flowers. E. B. t. 77. Teucrium L. , .. . * 



Sandy or gravelly fields. Not unfrequent in Kent and Surrey; -tllyj-c 



Trjplow Heath, Cambridgeshire; Purfleet, Essex. ©. 4—10.— pio-t 



Very different in habit fVom the preceding species. Flowers yellow, "''''n ',, 



spotted with red, and nestled among the narrow segments of the leaves, J ^ •''•'■ - 



of vvhich the lowermost are much broader. Stem reddish-purple,' 1 Hedges ; 



\0d- ■ 



J &«, and 



So 



fatn in c 



o - 1 ""I'W- 



converging, slwrter than the upper Up. (Gen. 8— 21.) ] tbtagest, 



* Cat equal or oblique, 5~lO-toothed, not 2-lipped. (Gen. 



8-16.) 



t Stamens ascending, longer than the tube of the corolla. ^8^. m 



(Geo. 8— 15.) lAtheti 



4, 



8. Ballota Linn. Horeliound. 



Cal. salyer-sliaped, eqtxal, with 10 ribs and 5 broad mticro- I 'trstiaq. 



nated teeth, naked within. Cor. with the tube included : upper -l^l.'. 



hp erect, concave; lower one trifid, middle lobe the larkst, 

 epaarginate. Ihe two anterior starr^ens the lon<^est. Cells oi 



onei 

 life \ t 



siiiiiial, 



the anthers diverging, opening longitudinally. Achen'es rounded , . 



at the end.-E^mned i5a\\,oT>u from ^5r^A\.., to reject; on account ij:^* 



of Its disagreeable smell. -^ \r^\i\\ 



■ - ■ ■■ ''"folate ' 



* 1^ 



