374 LABIATE. [Lycopus- 



campanulate, its teeth triangular acute about as broad as long." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 310. E. B. t. 3119. 



In moist waste and cultiraled ground, damp cornfields, fallows, on dilchbanks 

 and by streams, ponds, &c. ; abundant, i^/. August, September. 2^. 



Shizoma much branched in all directions, emitting long, white, downy and 

 swollen suckers intermixed with brownish fibres, and occasionally a few leafy 

 scions from the crown. Stem l^r more, scarcely exceeding a foot in height, 

 mostly much less, procumbent or even prostrate, simple or more commonly 

 copiously branched, the branches widely spreading or divaricate, and as well as 

 the stem hispid with long, white, mostly decurved hairs. Leaves opposite, dull 

 grayish green, all stalked, ovate or ovato-elliptical, rounded, subcordate, tapering 

 or cuneate and entire at base, somewhat obtusely pointed, more rarely acute, with 

 several distant, shallow, crenate serratures, strongly depresso-venose, rough on both 

 sides with erect or curved liairs, and dotted, as seen under a glass, with extremely 

 minute pellucid points. Petioles not iih the length of their leaves, very hairy. 

 Verticiltasters axillary, distant, many-flowered, depresso-globose, dimidiate, each 

 semiwhorl with a pair of narrow, hairy, recurved bracts at the point of union of 

 the pedicels. Pedicels' smooth, slender, mostly glabrous or very nearly so, some- 

 times considerably hairy, longer than the common peduncle, which, in the supe- 

 rior whorls at least, is so short as to make the latter appear sessile. Calyx very 

 hairy without, glabrous within except at the mouth, tubular-campanulate, ventri- 

 cose after flowering (10-ribbed?), resinoso-glandulose ; its teeth erect, short, equi- 

 laterally triangular, acute but not at all acuminate. Corolla pale bluish purple or 

 nearly white, twice as long as the calyx, hairy without and at the throat within. 

 Stamens either much exserted and fertile, or included and sterile, often both in 

 the same flower, or wanting. Style shorter or longer than the stamens. 



The peculiar odour of this species has been justly compared to that of mouldy 

 cheese. 



8. M. PuUgium, h. Pennyroyal. " Flowers whorled, leaves 

 ovate downy obtuse subcrenate, stem prostrate, flower - stalks 

 slightly and calyx very pubescent, teeth of the latter fringed." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 310. E. B. t. 1026. 



On moist watery heaths and commons, village-greens, and the shallow grassy 

 edges of pools and plashes in such situations, but rarely. Fl. July, September. 



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E. Med. — On St. Helen's green, very sparingly, 18.38 — 1839, but where, I am 

 told by the villagers, it is in certain seasons abundant. 



W. Med. — "I think in the plantation on the left hand approaching the castle 

 (Carisbrooke) from Newport,'' G. Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



** Stamens 2. 



II. Lycopus,* Linn. Gipsywort. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, limb nearly equal, 

 4-cleft, upper segments emarginate. Stamens distant, simple. 

 Achenia truncate, their summits sprinkled with glandular dots. 



1. L. europcBus, L. Common Gipsywort. Water Horehound. 

 " Leaves deeply and irregularly pinnatifid-serrate, rudiments of 



* Name from ^wxo;, a wolf, and ^rovj, afoot, from a supposed resemblance in 

 the cut leaves to a wolf's paw; in German, Der Wolfsfuss. Gipsies are said to 

 dye their skins darker with this plant, whence the English name of Gipsywort. 



