LABIATE. 



675 



more hairy ; the stock has a tuft of ra- 

 ther 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 quadran- 

 gular leafy spike. 



The species has a very wide range 

 over Europe, and central and Russian 

 Asia, to the Himalayas and China, al- 

 though not an Arctic plant. The pyra- 

 midal variety, common in northern Eu- 

 rope and the great mountain- ranges of 

 central Europe, is the only British form ; 

 it occurs but rarely in the Scotch High- 

 lands, and has been found by Mr. D. 

 Moore in the great island of Arran, off 

 the coast of Ireland. Fl. early summer. 

 tinguished as a species, but its peculiarities appear to be owing to 

 station, and it is never more marked than in recently burnt pastures. 



Fig. 812. 



This variety is usually dis- 



3. Yellow Bugle. Ajuga Chamsepitys, Schreb. (Fig. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 77.) 



A low, much branched, hairy annual. 

 Leaves much crowded, and deeply di- 

 vided into 3 linear lobes ; the lateral ones 

 sometimes again divided. Flowers yel- 

 low, in axillary pairs, always shorter 

 than the leaves. 



In dry, cultivated, and waste stony 

 places, roadsides, etc., chiefly in lime- 

 stone soils, in central and southern Eu- 

 rope and western Asia, extending north- 

 wards over the greater part of Ger- 

 many. In Britain, limited to some of 

 the south-eastern or eastern counties 

 of England. Fl. the whole season. 



Fig. 813. 



813.) 



