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and more strongly ribbed than in the next species, rather in- 

 flated below the mouth. Nutlets wholly green, the oblique top 

 longitudinally marked with veins all springing from the wholly 

 acute inner angle of the nut. L. slightly pubescent above. — 

 p. G. bifida (Boenn.) ; middle lobe of lower cor.-lip oblong 

 emarginate purple with pale ultimately revolute edges, base 

 ■with a yellow 2-lobed spot and several dots. A more slender 

 plant with paler leaves and smaller flowers. Sy. E. B. 1079. 

 —Woods and cultivated ground. A. VH.— IX. E. S. I. 



4. O. versic'ohr (Curt.) ; st. thickened at the joinings hispid, 

 1. oblong-ovate acuminate serrate, cal. beUshaped, cal.-teeth 

 shorter than the tube, cor.-tuhe much exceeding the cal., upper lip 

 roundish-oval.— £ B. 667.— St. 2— 3 ft. high. or. -tube inflated 

 above. Fl. very large, yellow, usually with a broad purple spot 

 upon the lower lip. Cal. -teeth shorter than their tube. Nutlets 

 with the oblique top dark brown, inner angle rounded oif almost 

 to the base. Difficult to distinguish upon paper from O. tetra- 

 &■*.— Cultivated ground. A. VH. VHI. ' E.S.I. 



14. Sia'chts Linn. Woundwort. 



1. S. Beton'ica (Benth.) ; whorls in oblong interrupted term, 

 spike many-flowered, st. erect, lower 1. ovate-oblong with a 

 cordate base crenate blunt with long stalks, upper 1. oblong- 

 lanceolate serrate acute subsessile, bracts linear-lanceolate equal- 

 ling the nearly qlahrwis cal., stam. falling short of the lip. — 

 Betonica offieinalis L. E. B. 1142.— St. 1—2 ft. high. Whorls 

 sometimes considerably separated. Cor. purplish red ; tube 

 exserted. The English plant has the round crenate not emar- 

 ginate lower lip of B. hirta (R.). — Woods and thickets. P. 

 Vn. Vni. Betony. E. S. I. 



2. 8. german'ica (L.) ; whorls many-flowered, si. erect woo%, 

 1. oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate with a cordate base orenate- 

 serrate stalked densely silky, upper I. lanceolate acute sessile, cal, 

 silky, teeth acute mucronate spinous, bracts equalling the calyx. 

 —E. B. 829.— St. 2—3 ft. high. Fl. purple.— Chalky soil, 

 Oxfordshire. B. VII. Downy Woundwort. E. 



3. S. sylvat'ica (L.) ; whorls 6 — 8-flowered, st. erect, I. cor- 

 date-ovate serrate long-stalked, fioral I. linear entire, cal.-teeth 

 lanceolate veiy acute, bracts minute. — E. B. 416. — Cal.-teeth 

 rather spinous. Petioles and 1. nearly equal. Fl. reddish- 

 purple. Nutlets opaque, punctured and irregularly tubercled. 

 L. clothed with scattered adpressed hairs or densely silky 

 on both sides. — Woods and thickets. P. VII. VIII, Hedge- 

 Woundwort. E. S. I. 



