104 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



14. Ballota, L. 



Cymes many -flowered, dense; calyx-teeth S-io, 

 spreading; corolla-tube with a ring of hairs inside, upper 

 lip erect ; stamens 4. Not alpine. 



B. nigra, L. (including alba, L., foetida. Lam.), Stink- 

 ing Horehound ; very foetid ; hedge-banks, very common. 



15. Prunella,* L. 



Cymes few-flowered, in dense terminal heads, sur- 

 rounded by orbicular leaf-like bracts; calyx closed in 

 fruit ; upper lip of corolla flat, lower lip 2-lobed ; stamens 

 4, filaments bifid. Not alpine. 



P. vulgaris, L., Self-heal, Heal-all ; very common. P. 

 alba. Pall, (laciniata, L.) ; flowers yellowish-white, leaves 

 pinnatifid; dry banks; Southern and Western Switzer- 

 land, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, local. P grandiflora, Jacq. ; 

 flowers large, purple (f-i in.), stem less leafy than vul- 

 garis ; banks and meadows, common. 



16. Scutellaria, L. 



Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, purple or violet ; 

 calyx 2-lipped, closed after flowering ; corolla-tube long, 

 not hairy inside, upper lip helmet-shaped, lower lip 3- 

 lobed ; stamens 4. 



6". galericulata, L., Skull-cap; flowers blue, about 

 § in., stem 6-18 in., branched, leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 glabrous ; water-sides. 6". hastifolia, L. ; flowers violet, 

 cymes in a terminal leafy spike, leaves ovate or lanceolate- 

 hastate, glabrous ; Rhone Valley. 6". alpina, L. (PI. 102) ; 

 * Continental botanists spell this word Brunella. 



