wood not far from Kingsweare, near Dartmouth : Miss Burges. Woods near 
Biddeford; and near Hall : Dr. Wavei.l. Woods near Ugbrooke. Buckland 
and Spitchwiek Woods. Rora and Pen Woods ; Ilsington. Hayes Wood near 
Budleigh. Road between Taphouse and Crediton ; and about Tedburne. 
Sandridge Wood, and about Torquay : FI. Devon. Woods at Leemouth : Mr. 
Watson, in N. B. G. Common in most coppices in every part of the county : 
Rev. Dr. Beeke. By the road-side at Hall, near Barnstable: Mr. W. Curtis. 
A mile from Ashburton on the road to Plymouth in the hedges, in great plenty : 
Dawson Turner, Esq. The last two localities belong to M. grandiftora of 
E. Bot. On Hilsboiough Hill, near Ilfracombe, not far from the sea: Miss 
Down. — Hampshire ; In the New Forest, and near Netley Abbey : Hudson. — 
Southampton : N. J. Winch, Esq. — Sussex ; In St. Leonard’s Forest, going 
down into Isemonger’s Gill, by the cross-road from Hand Cross to the Horsham 
road: W. Borrer, Esq. — WALES. Pembrokeshire; Woods about Haver- 
fordwest : Ray. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root fibrous, somewhat creeping. Stem from a foot to 18 inches 
high or more, upright, simple, square, rough with spreading hairs. 
Leaves opposite, on short petioles, egg-shaped, somewhat pointed, 
an inch and a half or two inches long, copiously and equally ser- 
rated, veiny, wrinkled, slightly hairy ; paler beneath ; petiole con- 
cave above, hairy. Flowers large and handsome, 1, 2, or 3 in the 
axil of each leaf, on round, simple peduncles, of about the same 
length as the petioles, all turned one way, the peduncles frequently 
crossing each other. Calyx lare;e, somewhat 2-lipped, reticulated 
with hairy veins, coloured, fringed, the margin gaping, in 3 or 4 ir- 
regular lobes, the upper one usually the longest, and often with a 
single notch at each side. Corolla twice or thrice the length of 
the calyx, downy, white, stained with purple, except the middle 
lobe of the lower lip, which is a deep reddish-purple edged with 
white. 
Melittis Melissophyllum, and M. grandiftora, (Engl. Bot. t. 577, & t. 636.) 
are considered by the most eminent Botanists of the present day to he mere varie- 
ties of the same species. Dr. Withering says, “ On further examination of 
specimens from Devonshire and other parts, we much doubt the permanency of any 
specific distinction in Smith’s M. grandiftora , (E. t. 636, said to grow in most 
coppices of Devon and Cornwall ; as the road-side between Liskeard and Calling- 
ton, and a mile from Ashburton on the road to Plymouth). The character at- 
tempted to be established, of ‘ calyx three-lobed,’ in M . Melissophyllum ; and 
• calyx four-lobed,’ in M. Grandiftora , appears to be far from invariable. Curtis 
declares the divisions of the lips of the calyx to be * altogether inconstant.’ ” The 
Rev. J. P. Jonf.s, and J. F. Kingston, Esq. authors of Flora Devoniensis, ob- 
serve, “We suspect that M. Melissophyllum and At. Grandiftora are the same 
plants. In the habitats where the former is said to grow, we have found the plant 
described in Smith’s FI. Brit, by the name of M. grandiftora. As we have 
never found but one species of Melittis in the county, we have retained the old 
specific name ( Melissophyllum J ■ Dr. Smith’s specific distinction, respecting 
the division of the lobes of the calyx, is altogether fallacious ; on the same plant 
we have observed the calyx both 3- and 4-lobed.” FI. Devon, p. 102. The Rev. 
J. S. Tozer is also of opinion that the two plants of English Botany are only va- 
rieties of the same species. This gentleman tells us, (Hook. Brit. FI. p. 281), 
that he resided many years at Totness, in which neighbourhood the M. Melisso- 
phyllum is said to grow ; and there he found a plant identical with that which still 
grows “ a mile from Ashburton in the road to Plymouth — the habitat given in 
English Botany for M. grandiftora. Mr. Tozer met with this plant also in the 
woods of Pembrokeshire, and in almost every individual he examined the calyx 
was to be found in every state, 3-lobed, 4-lobed, and in every intermediate grada- 
tion. — The plant when growing has a rather strong disagreeable smell, but when 
dry it smells like new hay. 
