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BASTARD BAUM 
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CPE an flower is labiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. 
the upper lip is large, rounded, and placed upright: the lower lip is broad’and obtufe. 
cup is hollowed,, and large, and at.the top is divided into two lips. 
flower; and they ftand naked. 
The tubular part is Jong and flender : 
The 
The’ ee are four after every 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymuofpermia, the flower lived two longer and two 
fhorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked in the cup. This author callowen it'to be a diftin& oes 
nus; but he alters the received name, writing it melittis: 8 
There is but one known fpecies of this genus; and oe is common to Britain, ‘and all the nor- 
thern parts of Europe. 
Baftard Baum. | 
Meliffophyllum. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick fibres, 
of an acrid and bitterifh, tafte. 
The ftalk is {quare, upright, firm, and a foot 
and half high: it is of a dufky green colour, and 
full of pith. 
The leaves are-confiderably large, ‘broad, ob- 
Jong, of a dufky green colour, and of a rough 
furface: they are pleat in pairs, and have flen- 
der footftalks, 
Gee Ee NE TUS 
The flowers rife in the bofoms of the leaves; 
and they are large and purple. 
The feeds are uneven, large, and brown. 
It is common in the woods of Devonfhire; and 
fome other of the adjoining counties, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lamium montanum meli ie 
folio, Others, Meliffa, and Meliffophyllum. 
It is faid to be a cephalick ; but its virtues are 
not well eftablifhed. 
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rae flower is labiated, and is formed of a fingle -petal.. . 
: The tubular part is-very {hort : the 
upper lip is rounded and turned, and is.a little nicked at the edge; the lower lip is divided i into 
three unequal fegments 
The cup is tubular, formed of a fingle piece, and terminated by five points, 
The feeds are four after every flower ; and they ftand naked. 
Linneus places this among the didyzamia haere ee flower having two threads longer 
than the others, and the feeds “ftanding naked. 
DoE Vel SOCNe Tt 
x. Broad-leaved Little Allheal. 
Sideritis pumila folio latiore. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are placed on flender footftalks : 
they areoblong, broad, and indented at the edges: 
their colour is ; a pale green, and they havea faint 
{mell. 
The ftalks are: fquare, weak, and branched : 
they are fix or.,eight inches long; and they, 
:fometimes ‘ftand . erect, dpmerimnes lie upon: the 
Sens 
The leaves on them are fet in paics ; and they 
are oblong)... broad, ferrated, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers. ftand in the bofoms of the leaves, 
and are fmall: ‘their colour is a pale red ; but they 
are {potted on the infide with purple. 
The feeds are brown. 
Jt is common in our corn-fields, and flowers 
in July. 
~~ C.Bauhine calls it Sideritis alfies tr iffaginis 
1, folio. 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
‘2. Clown’s Allheal. 
Sideritis futida Sirumofa radice. 
The root is compofed of numerous, irregular, 
tuberous pieces, connected by brown, thick 
fibres, 
The ftalk is upright, hairy, of a ste green, 
fquare, not much branched, and two feet high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are oblong, 
narrow, ferrated at the edges, ae and ae a 
pale green. 
The flowers'are. very numerous : they ftand in 
feparate clufters round the upper part of the 
ftalk, and together form a kind of fpike: they 
are purple; but the lower lip is fpotted with 
white. 
The feeds are angulated, fmall, and blackifh. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Stachys paluftris fatida. 
The common writers, Sideritis Anglica firumofa 
radice, 
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