286 MR. CHARLES BAILEY ON VARIETIES OF 



running down from Jollytown, the only other locality in 

 Cornwall where the plant was observed. 



II. St achy s Betonica, Bentham, var. 



Of this plant three well-marked forms have been de- 

 scribed : a, Betonica hirta, Eeich. ; b, B. serstina, Host. ; 

 and c, B. strict a, Ait.; and in many respects the form about 

 to be described agrees with the first of these forms. In 

 Mr. Babington^s Manual (ed. v. p. 261) it is stated that 

 '^ the English plant has the round crenate, not emarginate, 

 lower lip of B. hirta (E.) •/' but Professor Boreau is of 

 opinion that, while the three forms just named preserve 

 their remarkable differences of aspect when cultivated to- 

 gether, the distinctive characters furnished by the divisions 

 of the corolla are but slightly constant. (Flore du Centre 

 de la France, &c., ed. iii. vol. ii. p. 530.) 



Stems decumbent, numerous, radiating from the root- 

 stock, square above, rounded below, clothed with many 

 short hairs, which are closely appressed in the upper part 

 and pointing downwards, those in the lower part more 

 spreading, but still much reflexed ; spikes slightly inclined, 

 just raised above the ground, compressed-globose, the ver- 

 ticils many-flowered, never distant; calyx covered with 

 straight hairs, the sepals ending in stiff points ; corolla 

 three times longer than the calyx, the exterior covered 

 with scattered shaggy hairs, which are long and silky at 

 the base of the tube, but becoming shorter and more scat- 

 tered as they approach the lip ; opening of the mouth very 

 wide, lower lip crenate, wavy ; lower leaves on long stalks, 

 cordate at the base, oblong, regularly crenate, glandular on 

 the under surface, with short scattered hairs ; upper leaves 

 lanceolate, on short stalks. 



Specimens of B. hirta, Reich., have not come under my 

 notice, nor have I been able to meet with Reichenbach^s 

 diagnosis; but the form described above seems to agree 



