362 THE LABIATE FAMILY. [ Ajuga. 
lip longer and spreading, as in Germander. Stamens in pairs, projecting 
beyond the upper lip or tooth of the corolla. Nuts rough or wrinkled, 
A rather extensive genus, spread over Europe, Asia, Africa, and 
Australia, but unknown in America, differing from Germander in the 
tooth-like upper lip of the corolla, and still more in habit. 
Leaves entire, or coarsely toothed. Flowers blue or ash-coloured. 
Plant glabrous, or slightly hairy, with creeping scions . . 1. A. reptans. 
Plant very hairy, without creeping scions. . 2. A. genevensis. 
Leaves deeply divided into linear lobes. Flowers yellow . ° . 3. A. Chameepitys, 
1, 4. reptans, Linn. (fig. 817). Creeping Bugle.—The whole plant 
is glabrous, or with a few hairs chiefly amongst the flowers. The short 
stock emits creeping scions and a tuft of radical leaves, which are obovate, 
1 to 2 inches long, entire or broadly crenate, and narrowed into a stalk 
nearly as long as the leaf. Flowering stems erect, often only 2 or 3 inches, 
rarely near a foot high, with short, ovate or obovate, nearly sessile leaves ; 
the upper ones often coloured, small, and bract-like. Flowers in close 
whorls in the axils of nearly all the leaves; the upper ones forming a 
cylindrical leafy spike. Corolla blue, or rarely flesh-colour or white, with 
the tube much longer than the calyx. 
In pastures and woods, throughout Europe and w nee Asia, except 
the extreme north. Abundant in Britain. Fl. spring and early summer. 
2. &. genevensis, Linn. (fig. 818). Hrect Bugle.—Much like A. 
reptans, but has no creeping scions, and is much more hairy ; the stock has 
a tuft of rather large, spreading radical leaves, and one or more erect or 
ascending flowering stems, with the leaves often coarsely toothed. Calyx 
very hairy. Floral leaves in the pyramidal variety, the only one found in 
Britain, broadly ovate, longer than the flowers, and crowded with them in 
a pyramidal or quadrangular leafy spike. 
The species has a very wide range over Europe, and central and Russian 
Asia, to the Himalayas and China, although not an arctic plant. 71. early 
summer, ‘The pyramidal variety, common in northern Europe and the 
great mountain-ranges of central Europe, is the only British form; it 
occurs but rarely in the Scotch Highlands, and in the great Island of Aran, 
off the coast of Ireland. This variety is usually distinguished as a species 
(A. pyramidalis, Linn, ), but its peculiarities appear to be owing to station, 
and it is never more marked than in recently burnt pastures. 
3. 4. Chameepitys, Schreb. (fig. 819). Yellow Bugle, Ground Pine. 
—A low, much-branched, hairy annual. Leaves much crowded, and deeply 
divided into 38 linear lobes; the lateral ones sometimes again divided. 
Flowers yellow, in axillary pairs, always shorter than the leaves. | 
In dry, cultivated, and waste stony places, roadsides, etc., chiefly in 
limestone soils, in central and southern Europe and western Asia, extend- 
ing northwards over the greater part of Germany. In Britain, limited to 
some of the south-eastern or eastern counties of England, 7. the whole 
SEQSON. 
LVIII. VERBENACEAR, THE VERVEIN FAMILY. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with opposite or rarely alternate 
leaves. Flowers of Labiate, except that the ovary is entire, 
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