LABIATE. 



663 



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 

 Eussian Asia, from the Caucasus and 

 Altai to the Arctic Circle. Very abun- 

 dant all over Britain. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 795. 



4. Marsh Staehys. Stachys palustris, Linn. (Fig. 796.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1675.) 



Eesembles the wood S. 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. 

 Elowers of a pale bluish-purple, in 

 whorls of 6 or 8, forming shorter and 

 more crowded spikes than in the wood S. ; 

 the calyx-teeth long and pointed, but 

 not prickly. Corolla-tube rather shorter, 

 with a broader and somewhat shorter 

 lower lip than in the wood S. 



In ditches, and on moist banks, in 

 Europe, Eussian Asia, and northern 

 America, generally a more northern 

 plant than the wood S. Abundant in 

 Britain. FL summer and autumn. A 



variety with rather broader and longer-stalked leaves, and 

 longer tube to the corolla, has been distinguished under the 



Fig. 796. 



a rather 

 name of 



