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purplish blue of the seemingly disproportionately small nae 
The us rendered inconspicuous, an for 
marked contrast to those of the other British species S. prat Yasibte, 
lantarum, er ts 25 (1753), S. Petbonacs is de- 
scribed by nexus as “S. foliis serratis sinuatis corollis calyce 
angustioribus,” three figures ee eing quoted: two from Barrelier’s 
Plante per Galliam ete. ape (ic. 208 and ic. 220), and one 
i i t. 6 
In the second oe p: 35 (1762), the diagnosis i is revised by 
the addition of “leviusculis” after ‘“sinuatis,” the gatiee bs 
220 being facial | a a new species, S. clandestina. Itis n 
worthy that the two remaining figures, which are again so 
under S. Verbenaca, represent a slender plant with relatively 
narrow, deeply-cut castaiee and fairly large corollas, arched in the 
upper lip; in Barrelier’s work ic. 208 this is described as “ ae 
minum sylvestre minus, haae folio, flore azureo,” while of its 
flowers it is remarked in the text, “ Flores cerulei modd, modd 
In the Linnean Herbarium S. Verbenaca is represented by two 
re both showing ontuieaten plants from the Botanical Garden 
at Upsala. The firs : se these has a slender, light-coloured stem 
rat very narrow leaves (about 8 em. long by 3 cm. broad), the 
lower deeply sinuate- roar Its flowers, both as to calyx and 
corolla, the latter of Rafeenw appears deep blue, are quite small and 
possibly abnormal, owing to the cultivation of the plant from 
which the espabeat. was taken. The second example, gathered 
later, perhaps, and showing no corollas, has good 7 fruiting calyces 
and differs essentially from the first only in its deeper and more 
~~ leaf-cutting. 
resemblance of these specimens to the plants figured by 
ss rad Triumfetti is unmistakable, and when this is con- 
sidered in conjunction with Linnzus’s brief diagnosis, it becomes 
evident that the form primarily intended as S. Verbenaca is a 
lant characterized by a somewhat slender habit with narrow and 
deeply-cut foliage. 
The description of S. <a & Pl. ed. 2, wy is fortu- 
nately much more pag and run follows, viz “ Habitat 
in Italia. Caules .. .villosi... phases oer Folia oblonga, 
pinnato-sinuata, rugosissima, crenata in caule 2 s. 3 paribus 
yces pilis glutinosis . . . corolla violacea, vix calyce duplo 
longior ; labii inferioris medio lobo albo.” 
The figure quoted by Linneus: “ Horminum sylvestre, inciso 
folio, cxsio flore, pita . Loser c. 220) agrees closely with 
_ species since identified seks S. lanigera Poit, {= & ereese 
Benth. non Ten.) but described in Sibthorp cx Smith’s 
Greca from Linnzus’s specimen as S. clandest 
