246 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Waste places and limestone hills, extending to the Alps. June to 

 September. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor, 

 Caucasus. 



Stachys annua L. 



Readily distinguished from the last by its deflexed leaves, 

 which are oblong-lanceolate and nearly glabrous. 



An annual weed in cultivated land, often seen in fields in the 

 sub-alpine region. June to August. 



Distribution. — Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus. British. 



Galeopsis L. 

 Galeopsis ladanum L. 



Is another annual weed often seen in the lower Alps. Leaves 

 narrow, on short stalks, downy. Stem square, often much branched. 

 Leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, shortly petioled. Flowers purple, 

 red, or rarely white, large. Calyx greyish, hairy, with long but 

 unequal teeth. Very polymorphic. 



Cultivated and uncultivated ground, walls, etc. ; common. 

 July to October. 



Distribution. — Europe, especially Central and Southern. British. 



AjUGA L. Bugle. 



Cymes usually many-flowered. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla-tube 

 usually with a ring of hairs within ; upper hp short, notched ; 

 lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted. Anthers divergent. 



About 30 species inhabiting the Old World and Austraha. 



Ajuga pyramidalis L. (Plate XXIX.) 



Stem 3-12 inches high, densely leafy, erect, simple, woolly. 

 Leaves decreasing in size upwards, the lowermost very large. 

 Leaves obovate-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, slightly serrate, wavy 

 or entire, more or less pilose like the bracts ; lower leaves narrowed 

 into a leaf-stalk ; upper leaves sessile, passing into ovate, often 

 obscurely 3-lobed bracts, even the uppermost bracts twice as long 

 as the flowers. Bracts often with a violet tinge. Flowers pale 

 azure-blue, collected into whorls towards the summit of crowded 

 spikes. 



Pastures and Alpine woods up to 7000 feet. June, July. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Eastern, Central, and Western Alps ; 

 Black Forest, Vosges, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Central and Northern 

 Europe ; Altai. British. 



Ajuga genevensis L. 



Stem 6-18 inches high, erect, simple, very woolly throughout. 

 Leaves oblong, woolly on both sides, crenate or dentate ; stem- 



