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flowers rose-colour, in interrupted, dense, many-flowered whorls. — 

 On a chalky soil ; very rare. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



3. 5. aipiiia (Hill Woundwort). — Stem erect, little branched, 

 velvety, glandular at the top, i — 2 feet high, herbaceous ; leaves 



STACHYS ?\T.V.(tICA (f/tWi^c 



vrf). 



oval-lanceolate, cordate, distinctly and regularly cre-nate-serrate, 

 acuminate, velvety on both sides, green above, paler beneath ; the 

 loic-er long-stalked, the upper sessile ; flowers ptirple, 5 — u in each 

 axil, in a distantly interrupted spike : hracleoles linear-lanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the calyx, refle.\ed, velvety ■ calyx bell-shaped. 



