DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 321 



vulgaris u PRUNELLA foliis omnibus ovato-oblongis pctio- 



latis. Sp,pL 837. {Ger. em, 632, /. i. Miller ic. 



70. f, 2. Rivin. /. 29. BlackwelL /. 24. Moris, hift, 



/ Ji. /. 5./, I. ordinis fuperioris ad dextram. Pet, 



herb, t, 32./. 11.) 



Self-heal. Jngl^s, 



In nioifl and barren paftures frequent, 'i^^. VIIL 

 The ftalk is branched, from fix to twelve inches 

 high : the flowers grow in clofe cylindrical heads 

 or fpikes, at the fummits of the branches : the 

 upper lip of the Calyx is truncated, and has three 

 fhort bearded dents : the lower lip is bifid, and 

 the dents bearded : the Bra^e^ are heart-fhap'd, 

 and both thofe and the Calyces hairy : the Corolla 

 is generally of a blueilh purple, but often varies 

 in color : the lips of the Calyx clofe together^ 

 aftef the flower falls, in order the better to fe- 

 cure the embryo feeds. 

 It is aftringcnt and vulnerary, but is rarely ufed at 

 prefent, except by the common people, who 

 bruife and apply it to frefh wounds, and take ic 

 in broths and apozems for fpitting of blood, and 

 ufe it by way of injection in the Bloody-Flux^ and 

 other HiS?norrhages. 



ANGIOSPERMIA. 



BARTSIA. G^w./)/. 739. 

 Cal. bilobus, emarginatus, coloratus. Corolla mi- 

 nus ipfo calyce coloi ata, labio fuperiore longiore. 

 ifcofa, BARTSIA foliis fuperiorlbus alternis ferratis, flo- 



Y ribus 



