356 THE LABIATE FAMILY. [Stachys. 
thick, creeping scions; the stem stout, erect, and branching, 2 to 4 feet 
high. Leaves all stalked, rather large, ovate, cordate, and crenate. 
Flowers in whorls of 6 to 10, distant from each other, forming long 
terminal spikes, without any bracts except the floral leaves. Calyx-teeth 
spreading and pointed, but not prickly. Corolla of a dark reddish-purple, 
the tube longer than the calyx, the lower lip variegated with white on the 
upper side. 
In ditches, on shady banks, and the edges of woods, throughout Europe ~ 
and Russian Asia, from the Caucasus and Altai to the Arctie Circle. Very 
abundant all over Britain. Fl. swmmer, 
4, S. palustris, Linn. (fig. 801). Marsh Stachys. Resembles S. 
sylvatica in its creeping rootstock and tall, stout stems, but the hairs are 
shorter and not so coarse, the smell is not so bad, and the leaves are 
much narrower; they are very shortly stalked, oblong or lanceolate, | 
slightly cordate at the base, 2 to 4 inches long. Flowers ofa pale bluish- 
purple, in whorls of 6 or 8, forming shorter and more crowded spikes than — 
in S. sylvatica ; the calyx-teeth long and pointed, but not prickly. Co- 
rolla-tube rather shorter, with a broader and somewhat shorter lower lip 
than in S. sylvatica, 
In ditches, and on moist banks, in Europe, Russian Asia, and northern 
America, generally a more northern plant than 8. sylvatica, Abundant in 
Britain. Fl. summer and autumn. <A form with rather broader and 
longer-stalked leaves, and a rather longer tube to the corolla, has been 
distinguished as S. ambigua, Sm., but it appears to be a hybrid.. 
5, S. arvensis, Linn. (fig. 802). Field Stachys.—A slender, hairy 
annual, very different in aspect from the preceding species; the stems 
branched, decumbent, or slightly ascending, from an inch or two to nearly a 
foot long. Leaves small, ovate, scarcely cordate. Flowers small, of a pale 
purple, in whorls of 2 to 6 or 8, forming loose, leafy spikes. Calyx-teeth 
as long as its tube. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. 
In fields and waste places, spread over Europe and Russian Asia, 
except the extreme north, and carried out with our crops even to tropical 
countries. Common in England, rare in Ireland and Scotland. J, the 
whole season. 
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XIII. GALEOPSIS. GALEOPSIS. 
Erect, or slightly decumbent annuals, with spreading branches and 
flowers in dense whorls in the upper axils or at the summit of the branches. 
Calyx nearly regular, with 5 pointed teeth. Corolla with a tube longer 
than the calyx ; the upper lip erect, concave and entire or slightly notched ; 
the lower spreading and 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in pairs; the cells of the 
anthers opening by a transverse slit, bordered with hairs, 
A small genus, consisting of European and north Asiatic weeds of cul- 
tivation, distinguished from Stachys chiefly by the anthers. 
Hairs of the plant short and soft. Calyx-teeth not longer than 
the tube. Stems not swollen under the nodes. : 
Flowers purple. : pe 5 A A . . “ » 1. G. Ladanwm. 
Flowers yellow ‘ J . ek tee P pO Na ‘ . 2. G. ochroleuca, 
Hairs of the plant long and stiff. Calyx-teeth long and almost 
prickly. Stems swollen under the nodes : o se 6 Be . Letmahet. 
