346 TAXIDERMY AND MODELLING 



The top of the stem and base of the involucre, being slightly- 

 downy, are painted over with honey and sprinkled with fine 

 white " down." 



Common Prunella or " Self-heal," Prunella vulgaris, Lmn. 



This very interesting plant — one of the labiate family, 

 like the red, white, and yellow " dead nettles " — is a great 

 acquisition to almost any group it may be associated with, and, 

 being commonly found in meadows and along the sides of 

 streams, it may be introduce?! into almost any situation. It is, 

 however, although a strikingly beautiful object with its spikes 

 of purplish flowers and well-veined ovate leaves, so much more 

 difficult and tedious to make than even the "dead nettles," 

 that Mrs. Mogridge must be left to tell the tale of " how it's 

 done." 



Taking the natural plant as a guide, the corolla first claims 

 attention, and this, although of a fine purple with blue in nature, 

 must yet be reproduced primarily in white art fabric. 



Cut the corolla in two parts, of white art fabric on the 

 cross, in the forms shown in diagrams i and 2 ; the calyx, also 



in two parts, of pale green fabric doubled, in the forms of 3 

 and 4, and the bract-like floral leaves, which occur under each 

 whorl, of fabric faced with wax, in the form of No. 5. 



Colour both sides of the " petals " (omitting the bases) with 

 purple powder-colour, magenta, and ultramarine. Model into 

 shape with a small-headed modelling-pin, rolling the upper lip 

 (No. i) upon the finger with the pin until it becomes deeply 



