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larly downwards. Si/. E. B. 964. L. speciosa Ten.? — Hedges 

 on a grayelly soil. P. VI. VII. Yellow Toad/lax. E. S. I. 



5. Sceophtji.a'kia Linn. Kgwort. 



* Cal. of 5 rounded lobes. Cor. purplish ; iifpper lip with a scale 

 (staminode) on its inner side. 



1. 8. noddsa (L.) ; I. ovate acute subcordate glabrous doubly 

 and acutely serrate, lower teeth largest, st. acutely 4-angular, 

 cymes lax, sep. roundish-ovate with a narrow membranous 

 margin, staminode wedgeshaped slightly emarginate. — E. B. 1544. 

 — Root tuberous, thick, knotty. St. 2 — 3 feet high. Bracts 

 small, lanceolate, acute. Fl. greenish purple, lurid, sometimes 

 milk-white. Caps, ovate. — Moist hedges and thickets. P. VI. 

 VII. Knotted Figwort. E. S. L 



2. S. umbrdsa (Dum.)'; I. ovate-lanceolate acute subcordate 

 glabrous sharply serrate, lower teeth smaller, st. and petioles 

 winged, cymes hx few- (4 — 8-)flowered, Sep. roundish with a 

 broad membranous margin, staminode bilobed with diverging 

 lobes.— S. Ehrharti, C. A. Stev. E. B. 8. 2875.— St. tall. 

 Bracts leqflike, lanceolate, acute. Fl. dark purple. Caps, sub- 

 globose, blunt.— Wet places. P. VIII. IX. E. S. 



3. 8. aguat'ioa (L.!) ; Z. cordate-oblong roimdly blunt gla- 

 brous crenate-serrate, st. and petioles winged, cymes dense corym- 

 bose many- (8 — \6-')Jlowered, Sep. roundish blunt with a broad 

 membranous margin, staminode roundish-reniform. — E. B. 854. 

 S. Balbisii Horn., Koch. — St. 2 — 5 feet high. Bracts linear, 

 blunt. Fl. dark purple, occasionally milk-white. Caps, ovoid, 

 pointed.— In wet places. P. VH. Vni. E. S. I. 



4. 8. Scoroddnia (L.) ; I. cordate-triangular with large double 

 teeth downy on both sides, st. bluntly quadrangular downy, cymes 

 lax few-flowered, sep. roundish downy with a membranous 

 margin, staminode roundish entire. — E. B. 220&. — St. 2 — 3 feet 

 high. L. wrinkled. Bracts leafiihe, lower exactly like the 

 leaves. Fl. purple. Caps, ovoid, acute. — In moist places. 

 West of Cornwall. Tralee, Kerry. Jersey. P. VII. E. I. 



** Cal. of 6 deep acute segments. Cor. yellow ; no staminode. 



JS. S. verndlis (L.) ; I. dmony cordate-acute doubly serrate, 

 St. winged hairy, cymes axillary corymbose with leaflike bracts, 



1 See Du Mortier in Bull. Belg. vii. 36. 



