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Var. a, erecta. — Stems erect, bushy; leaves stalked, the 
petioles as long as, or longer than, the leaflets ; leaflets 
ellipticai-obovate, bluntish. 
Var. j3, prostrata. — Stems prostrate, spreading; leaves 
shortly stalked or sessile ; leaflets ovate-acute, acu- 
minate. 
The Cornish form, here named j3, prostrata , differs from 
the normal plant chiefly in its habit of growth, which, 
instead of being erect and bushy, is remarkably prostrate, 
the branches spreading out in fan-shaped patches, and 
growing flat upon the ground; the branches, particularly 
in the upper half, are densely clothed with short spreading 
hairs ; the leaves have shorter stalks, with a greater ten- 
dency to suppress the two lateral leaflets, the majority of 
the leaves, in fact, being unifoliate ; the pods are less nume- 
rous, have their dorsal and ventral sutures covered with 
long silky hairs, and are black rather than brown, shorter, 
and have fewer seeds. 
The season Was too far advanced for any flowers to be 
met with, either on Vellan Head or in the small valley 
running down from J ollytown — the only other locality in 
Cornwall where the plant was observed. 
II. — Stachys Betonica, Bentham var. 
Of this plant three well-marked forms have been de- 
scribed : a, Betonica hirta, Reich. ; b , B. serstina, Host. ; and 
c, B. stricta, Ait. ; and in many respects the form about to 
be described agrees with the first of these forms. In Mr. 
Babbington’s Manual (ed. v., p. 261) it is stated that “the 
English plant has the round crenate, not emarginate, lower 
lip of B. hirta (R.);” but Professor Boreau is of opinion 
that, while the three forms just named preserve their re- 
markable differences of aspect when cultivated together, the 
distinctive characters furnished by the divisions of the 
corolla are but slightly constant. (Flore du Centre de la 
Frcmce , &c., ed. iii., vol. ii., p. 530.) 
