PRUNE'LL A.* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Didyna'mia f, Gymnospe'rmia. % 
Natural Order. Labia'tas, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 110. — Lind. Syn. 
p. 196 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 239. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 439. 
— Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 99. ; Eng. FI. v. iii. p. 63. — Loud. Hort. 
Brit. p. 528 . — Verticilla'ta;, of Ray, and of Linnreus. 
Gen. Ciiar. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, bell-shaped, 2-lipped; 
upper lip flat, dilated, very abrupt, with 3 very short pointed 
teeth; lower lip much narrower, but about as long, straight, di- 
vided half way down into two sharp pointed segments. Corolla 
(fig. 2.) ringent (gaping) ; tube short, cylindrical ; throat longer 
and wider ; upper lip concave, entire, inflexed ; lower lip reflexed, 
divided into 3 rounded, blunt, crenate lobes, the middle one 
broadest. Filaments 4, (fig. 4.) two a little longer than the other 
two, awl-shaped, forked at the summit. Anthers on the lower 
branch of each filament, opening transversely by 2 valves. Ger- 
man 4-lobed. Style (fig. 5.) thread-shaped, directed, like the 
stamens, towards the upper lip, and on a level with them. Stigma : 
divided into 2 sharp recurved points. Seeds (figs. 6 & 7.) 4, some- 
what egg-shaped, shining, in the bottom of the closed, dry, reti- 
culated calyx. 
Distinguished from other genera in the same class and order, by 
the 2-lipped calyx, and the forked filaments, one of the points 
bearing the anther, the other naked. 
One species British. 
PRUNE'LLA VULGA'RIS. Common Self-heal, or Slough- 
heal. 
Spec. Char. Leaves stalked, between oblong and egg-shaped ; 
teeth of the upper lip of the calyx very minute. 
Eng. Bot. t. 961. — Curt. FI. Lon<i. t. 229. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 837. — Huds. FI. 
Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 264. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 646.— Lng. FI. v. iii. p. 114. — 
With. (7th ed.) v. iii. p. 725. — Lindl. Syn. p. 205. — Ilook. Brit. FI. p. 281. — 
Mart. FI. Bust. t. 137. — Siblh. FI. Oxon. p. 190. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 133. — 
Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 281. — Rehl. FI. Cantab. (3rd ed.) p. 248. — Hook. FI. 
Scot. p. 185. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 134. — FI Devon, pp. 102. and 146. — John- 
ston’s FI. of Berwick, v. i. p 134. — Rev. G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 32. — 
Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 173. — Mack. Catal. of the PI. of Ireland, p. 57. — Prunella, 
Ray’s Syn. p. 238. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 632 —Brunella vulgaris, Gray’s 
Nat. Arr. v. ii. p.389. 
Localities. — I n meadows and pastures. Common. 
Root somewhat creeping, fibrous. Stem from 6 inches to a foot 
high, upright or ascending, commonly branching from the very 
base, jointed, the lowermost joints sending down roots, nearly 
square, with a deep groove on 2 opposite sides alternately, clothed, 
especially at the angles, with whitish hairs, which point upwards. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. Corolla. — Fig. 3. A Stamen. — Fig. 4. Outline of a 
flower, cut open, showing the four Stamens, with the Anthers attached to the 
inner forks of the Filaments. — Fig. 5. Germen, [Style, and Stigma. — Fig. 6 and 
7. a Seed. — All, except fig. 6, more or less magnified. 
* From the German, braiine, the quinsy, whence Brunella of Ray, softened 
into Prunella. — Dr. Hooker. 
t See Lamium album, p. 31 . note t. t See Lamium album, p. 31 . note f. 
