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plish, variegated or white. Cal.-teeth as long as the tube, which 
is shorter but quite as broad and more strongly ribbed than in 
the next species, rather inflated below the mouth. Nuts wholly 
green, the oblique top longitudinally marked with veins all spring- 
ing from the wholly acute inner angle of the nut. L. shghtly 
pubescent above. Fl. large; middle lobe of lower lip of cor. 
subquadrate, flat, crenulate, obtuse or slightly emarginate.—f. 
G. bifida (Boenn.) ; middle lobe of lower lip of cor. oblong entire 
emarginate, margins at length revolute. A more slender plant 
with paler 1. and smaller fl. The middle lobe of the lower lip 
purple with « pale margin, its base with a yellow 2-lobed spot 
and several minute dots.—Woods and cultivated ground. A. 
VIT.—IX. Common Hemp-nettte. 
4. G. versicolor (Curt.); st. hispid thickened at the joinings, 
1. oblong-ovate acuminate serrate, cal. bellshaped, teeth shorter 
than the tube, tube of the cor. much longer than the cal., upper lip 
roundish-oval.—E. B. 667. St. 62. 8.—Tube of the cor. inflated 
above. FI. very large, yellow, with usually a broad purple spot 
upon the lower lip. Cal.-teeth shorter than the tube. Nuts 
with the oblique summit dark brown, inner angle rounded off 
almost to the base. Difficult to distinguish upon paper from G. 
Tetrahit.—Cultivated ground. A. VII. VIII. 
15. Sracnys Linn. 
1. S. Betonica (Benth.); spike oblong interrupted below, 
whorls many-flowered, st. erect, lower 1. ovate-oblong with a cor- 
date base crenate obtuse with long stalks, upper 1. oblong-lan- 
ceolate serrate acute sessile, bracts linear-lanceolate as long as 
the cal., cal. nearly glabrous, stam. shorter than the lip.—Beto- 
nica officinalis Sm., E. B. 1142.—Whorls sometimes separated 
considerably. Tube of the cor. exserted. The English plant 
has the subulate-spinous cal.-teeth of B. officinalis (R.); and the 
round crenate not emargimate lower lip of B. hirta (R.)— Woods 
and thickets. P. WII. VIII. Betony. 
2. S. germanica (L.); whorls many-flowered, st. erect woolly, 
1. oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate with a cordate base crenate- 
serrate stalked, wpyper 1. lanceolate acute sessile, all densely silky, 
cal. silky, teeth acute mucronate spinous, bracts equalling the 
ealyx.—E. B.829.—F. purple.—Chalky soil im Oxfordshire and 
Bedfordshire. P. VII. Downy Woundwort. E. 
3. S. sylvatica (L.); whorls 6—8-flowered, st. erect, 1. cordate- 
ovate serrate with long petioles, floral 1. linear entire, cal.-teeth 
lanceolate very acute, bracts minute—E. B. 416.—Cal.-teeth 
rather spinous. Petioles and 1. nearly equal. FI. reddish pur- 
ple. Nuts opaque, punctured and irregularly tubercular.  L. 
