STACHYS. 



Riv MonoD Irr t 27. f. i.)— Whorls of where moft botanical travellers have gathered this fpccies, 



S. montana. IV ' ^^l S'em wonlly, erect.— and from whence it came into the gardens of Parkinloi. and 



many n )Wtr^. i^idvis ticuni . ^ ..j/^ ■■ _... ^. 



Nanve of Germany, Siberia, France, England, a^ d Greece 



other curious cultivators of that time, though now ftarcely 

 to be met with. The plant is bufhy, of humble growth, 

 fpinous, pale green, with fmall lea-vet. Floiuers white, their 

 lip prettily fpotted with red. 



S. paldtftina. Greek Woundwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 1674. 



Willd. n. 15. Prodr. Fl. Grsc. n. 1363. (S. alba, an- 



gullo falvis folio; Barrel. let. 279. ) — Whorls of about 



'i"^/!!!!"^ '"'wooUv Woundwort. Murray in Linn. Syft. fix flowers, crowded, leafy. Leaves feifile, lanceolate, entire, 



W.tt, us ,t IS rare, occurring only on fome ch..lkv or iime- 

 il„ne fells, flowering in July. The/.wu are denlely clothed 

 wit I. (oft white wool. Leaves italked. ovate, acute, covered 

 with Inft white pubefce ce, molt wo..lly beneath. Flo'wers 

 numerous , f.lky and fdvery at the outhde ; purple and 

 white ill front. 



Ven. ed. 14. 536. J'aeq. M>fc. v. 2. 342. Ic. Rar. t. 107. 

 W'lld. n. 8. Alt n. 9.— Wliorls of many flowers. Leaves 

 woolly. ' Stems procumbent ai d rooting at the bafe.— Na- 

 tive of Siberia. Frequent in i^ardens, where it proves a 



nd 



veiny, finely downy ; as well as the nearly round item. — Na- 

 tive of the Levant. Dr. Sibthorp found it plentiful through- 

 out Greece, in rough and ftony mountainous places, as Di«>- 

 fcorides mentions of his t^x^-^ ^^^ therefore concludes it to 

 be that identical fpecies. It anfwers, indeed, well enough to 



hardy perennial, fl-werin. throughout the futrimer, and be that ide . .a w n, f ' I, . 



forming Wire tufts, confpicuous for their very white woolly the defcnption. The >/nj are ereft, bufhy, fornewhat 

 appeartice. The leaves are more ohtufe, and far more fhrubby, leafy, nearly round, clothed with peculiarly fine, 

 denfely woolly, than in the lalt. Dr. Sibthorp's manu- 

 fcnpts iiifor-n us that the prefent fpecies is called ra^"'' ^y 

 the modern Greeks in Laconia, 



S. coccinea. Scarlet Chili Woundwort. Willd. n. 3. 

 Ait. n. 3. Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 3. 18. t. 284. Curt. 

 Ma"-, t. 666. — Whorls of fix flowers. Leaves ovate, cre- 

 nate* hairy ; heart-fliaped at the bafe, with dilated footllalks. 



clofe, denfe, woolly hoarinefs. Leaves an inch and half or 

 two inches long, fcavcely one-third of an inch broad, very foft 

 and downy on both fides ; the floral ones fhort and ovate. 

 Calyx unarmed, downy, hke the outfide of the corolla, whofe 

 lips are purple, the throat variegated with white. 



S. rugofa. Rugged Yellow Woundwort. Ait. ed. i. 

 V. 2. 303. ed. 2. n. 17. Willd. n. 20. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 493. 



Native of South America. Said to have been brought — Whorls of fix flowers. Leaves lanceolate, ferrated, ru- 



from Sj>ain in ,798, by the late marchionefs of Bute. This gofe, downy ; tapering at the bafe, and fomewhat ftalked. 



is a haidv iJreei:lK.uic plant, readily increafed by cuttings, or Stem round, finely downy. — Native of the Cape of Good 



by parting its roots, and producing abundance of large Hope, from whence Mr. Maffon is faid to have introduced 



fiowers, of that rich fcarlrt hue fo prevalent in the vegetable it in 1 774, yet Thunberg has it not in his Prodromus. The 



produfti.ns of Chili and Peru. pm is flirubby, bufliy, quite round, very white, as in the 



S- hyjf'ipifolia. Hyflop-leaved Woundwort. Michaux lall, to which the leaves alfo bear a great refemblance, but 



Boreal-Amer. v. 2. 4. Purfli n. 1. (S. paluftris? Walt, are more ftalked. Jacquin'a plate fliews no ferratures. The 



Carol. 162.)—" Whorls of about four flowers. Stem ^oTO<T.f are axillary, with a white tube and yellow lips, 

 ereft. Leaver feffile, linear-lanceolate, nightly toothed, nearly &. annua. Pale Annual Woundwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 813 



fmooth." — Native of Carolina. A fleiider, upright, nearly 

 fmooth plant, with about ioin Jlowers in each whorl. Mi- 

 thaux. 



S. afpera. Harfh Woundwort. Michaux Boreal-Amer. 

 V. J. 5. Piirfli n. 2. (S. tenuifolia; Willd. n. 11. S. 



Willd. n. 23. Ait. n. 19. Jacq. Auitr. t. 360. (Sideri- 

 tis flore albo, barba luteola ; Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 70. S. 

 latifoha glabra ; Ger. Em. 699.) — Whorls of fix flowers. 

 Leaves ovato-lanceolate, ferrated, ftalked, fmooth, three- 

 ribbed. Stem branched, eredl. — Native of Germany and 



arventis ? Walt. Carol. 162.) — Whorls of about fix flowers, the fouth of Europe. Kept fomelimes in curious gardens. 



Stem ereft, very rough, with deflexed briftles. Leaves rather for curiofity than any valuable property. The root 



lanceolate, acute, ferrated, very fmooth. Teeth of the calyx is annual. Stem erecft, fquare, with oppofite fpreading 



fpinous, divaricated. — In low fields and on the banks of rivers, branches. Leaves green; the larger ones ftalked ; upper- 



frora New York to Virginia, flowering from June to Au- molt narrower, and feflile. Calyx-teeth fpinous. Corolln 



guft. It refembles S. palujlris. Root perennial. Flowers white, with a yellowifh lip. 



purple. Purjh. S. arvenjis. Corn W^oundwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 8 14. 



&. hifplda. Briftly Woundwort. Purfti n. 3. (S. fo- Willd. n. 24. Fl. Biit. n. 4. Engl. Bot. t. 1 154. Curt, 



liis lanceolatis, &c. ; Gron. Virg. ed. 2. 89, but not the Lond^fafc. 4. t. 41. Fl. Dan. t. 587. (S. arvenfis mini- 



plant of Linnaeus, nor of any other author cited, except 

 Clayton, n. 271.) — " Whorls of about fix flowers. Stem 

 briitly. Leaves ftalked, ovate-oblong, bluntly ferrated, 



ma ; Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 27. f. 2.) — Whorls of fix flowers. 

 Stem weak, fpreading. Leaves heart-fliapcd, obtufe, cre- 

 nate, rather hairy. — Common in the fields of Britain, and 



briftly. Calyx imoothini." — In old fields and low paftures, other parts of Europe, efpecially where the foil is light and 

 from Virginia to Carolina, flowering in July. Flowers fandy, flowering in July and Augutt. Root annual, fmall. 

 purple. Gronovius's fynonym has been erroncoufly referred Steins fpreading, often proitrate, a fpan long, iqnare, hairy 



to S. annua, from which his original fpecimen proves widely 

 diflerent. PurJh. 



S. Faniculum. Fennel-fcented Woundwort. Purfli n. 4. 

 — " Whorls of about fix flowers. Stem creft, downy. 

 Leaves ovate, fomewhat heart-ftiaped, toothed ; fmooth 



fmooth. Leaves ftalked, ovate, fetid, an inch long. 

 Flowers fmall, light purple, with a white and dotted palate ; 

 their calyx hairy, witii violet teeth. 



S.Jpinulofa. Prickly-branched Woundwort. Prodr. Fl. 

 GrsEC. n. 1368. (S. foliis hormini ; Riv. Suppl. t. 15. Si- 



The 



above; whitifli and downy beneath." — On the banks of the deritis cretica maxima, ocymaftri valcntini facie; Tourn 

 " "" ' " ■ - ■ •■ Q^^^ j^^^ — Whorls of fix flowers. Leaves heart-ftiaped, 



crenate, hairy. S'em erect, branched, minutely prickly. — 

 Native of Crete, where Dr. Sibthorp found it. Arduino 

 fent a fpecimen to Linnaeus, marktd with Tournefort's fy- 

 nonym ; and we have lately noticed a figure of this plant, 

 in the rare unpubliflied fupplement to Rivinus, of which the 



Miflburi ; annual, flowering in July. Flowers blue, 

 whole plant fmells extremely like Fennel. PurJh. 



S. fpinnfa. Thorny Woundwort, Afles' Thyme. Linn. 

 Sp.Pl. »i3. Willd. n. 13. Alt. n. 12. Sm. Fl. Grac. 

 Sibth. t. 559, unpubliflied. (Gaidarothimo di Candia ; Pon. 

 Bald. 106.) — Hoary. Branches crofling each other, tipped 



with fpincB- Flowers axillary, teruate — Native of Crete, only copy known to exift, apparently once belonging to 



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