STACHYS. 
2f)l 
j)uq)lish, variegated or wliite. Cal. -teeth twiee as long as the 
tube, which is shorter but quite as broad and more strongly 
ribbed than in the next species, rather inflated below the mouth. 
Nuts wholly green, the oblique toj) longitudinally marked with 
veins all si)ringing fi-om the wholly acute inner angle of the nut. 
L. slightly pubescent above. Tl. large ; middle lobe of lower lip 
of cor. subquadrate, flat, crenulate, obtuse or slightly emarginatc. 
— 13. bifida ; middle lobe of lower lip of cor. oblong entire emar- 
ginate : margins at length revolute. G. bifida Boenn.?, Fries?, 
St. 62. 7.1 A more slender j)lant with paler 1. and smaller fl. 
which are said to be differently marked. — Woods and cultivated 
ground. A. YII. — IX. Common Hemp-nettle. 
4. G. versicolor (Curt.) ; st. hispid thickened below the joints, 
1. oblong-ovate acuminate serrate, cal. bellshaped teeth shorter 
than the tube, tube of the cor. much longer than the cal., upper lij) 
roundish-oval. — E. B. 667- St. 62. 8. — Tube of the cor. inflated 
above. Fl. veiy large, yellow, nith usually a broad purple spot 
upon the lower hp. Cal. -teeth shorter than the tube. Nuts 
with the obhque summit dark brown, inner angle rounded off 
almost to the base. DifficiUt to distinguish upon paper from G. 
Tetrahit. — Cultivated ground. A. YII. YIII. 
15. Stachys lAnn . 
1. S. Betoniea (Benth.); ereet, lower 1. ovate-oblong with a 
cordate base crenate obtuse with long stalks, upper 1. oblong- 
lanceolate seiTate acute sessile, bracts linear-lanceolate as long 
as the cal., whorls many-flowered condensed into an oblong 
slightly inteiTupted spike, cal. nearly glabrous, stam. shorter than 
the lip. — Betoniea officinalis Sm., E. B. 1142. — YTiorls some- 
times separated considerably. Tube of the cor. exserted. The 
English plant does not exactly agree with either of those de- 
scribed by Keichenbach having the subidate-spinous cal. -teeth 
of B. officinalis ! and the round crenate not emarginate lower lip 
of B. hirta !. From the examination of authentic specimens I 
am led to fear that the fonns of the cor. represented on his plates 
are exaggerated. — Woods and thickets. P. YII. YIII. Belong. 
2. S. germanica (L.) ; whorls many-flowered, st. erect woolly, . 
I. oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate with a cordate base crenate- 
serrate stalked, upper 1. lanceolate acute sessile, all densely silky, 
cal. silky : teeth acute mucronate spinose, bracts equalling the 
calyx. — E.B. 829. — Fl. purple. \S. polystachia (Ten.!) onlv 
differs by having more truly crenate 1. ; S. germanica of Ten. ! 
and of R. ! is a less w'oolly plant w ith more distant whorls and 
less spinous cal.-teeth.] — Chalky soil in Oxfordshu-e and Bed- 
fordshire. P. YII. Doumy Woundwort. E. 
