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THE LABIATE FAMILY. 



Scotland as far as Edinburgh. Fl. 

 summer. In southern Europe it is 

 replaced by the small-flowered S. clan- 

 destina, a marked variety or perhaps 

 species, on a smaller scale, with nar- 

 rower, more cut leaves, and smaller 

 flowers, which has been indicated in 

 some parts of south-western England 

 and in the Channel Islands, but all the 

 British specimens I have seen are 

 nearer to the common ivild S. 



Fig. 771. 



II. LYCOPUS. LYCOPUS. 



Herbs, with the habit and flowers of a Mint, but with only 2 stamens, 

 and the nuts surrounded by a thickened, somewhat corky border. 



Besides the British species there are but very few, dispersed over 

 Europe, Asia, and America. Perhaps indeed all but one may be mere 

 varieties of the common one. 



1. Common Lycopus. Lycopus europseus, Linn. (Eig. 772.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1105. Gipsywort.) 



A tall, erect, and branching perennial, 

 slightly hairy, with a shortly creeping 

 rootstock. Leaves shortly stalked, lan- 

 ceolate or almost ovate, deeply toothed 

 or pinnatifid. Elowers small and very 

 numerous, in dense axillary whorls or 

 clusters, seldom exceeding the leafstalk. 

 Calyx-teeth 5, stiff and pointed. Corolla 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx-teeth, and 

 nearly equally 4-lobed. Stamens rather 

 longer. 



In wet ditches, and marshes, through- 

 out Europe, Russian and central Asia, 

 and north America, and perhaps the 

 same species in Australia. Abundant in 

 England and Ireland, extending into 



Scotland, but becoming rare as it advances northward. Fl. summer. 



