LABIATE FAMILY 



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flowers rose-colour, in interrupted, dense, many-flowered whorls. — 

 On a chalky soil ; very rare. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



3. S. alpina (Hill Woundwort). — Stem erect, little branched, 

 velvety, glandular at the top, 1 — 2 feet high, herbaceous; leaves 



StAchys SYlvatica {Hedge Woundwort). 



oval-lanceolate, cordate, distinctly and regularly crenate-serrate, 

 acuminate, velvety on both sides, green above, paler beneath ; the 

 lower long-stalked, the upper sessile ; -flowers purple, 5 — 12 in each 

 axil, in a distantly interrupted spike j bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the calyx, reflexed, velvety ■ calyx bell-shaped, 



