370 124. Scorodonia, 32. LABIATiE. 
PI. ex. cor. 
VI. 124. SCORODONIA. Val. Cordus. Wood-sage. 
Calyx tubular, bellied at the bottom, 2-lipped ; upper 
lip not cut, ovate, upright; lower lip 4-toothed; 2 side teeth 
short; 2 lower teeth jutting forwards; galea truncated, 
deeply cut; lobes rounded; lip 3-cut, side-lobe oblique 
spread ; middle lobe reverse heartshape ; stamens 4, didy- 
namous, exserted ; gynobasis or cariopsides smooth. — 
Flowers racemose, terminal, yellow ; racemes leafy. 
Scorodonia solitaria. Single-flowered wood-sage. 
Stems upright ; leaves heartshape, rather downy, toothed, 
petioled ; racemes axillary, facing one way. 
Scorodonia seu Salvia agrestis, Raii Syn. 245, 1 ; Ger. era. 662, 1. 
Scorodonia seu scordium alterum quibusdam et salvia agrestis, Park . 111. 
Teucrium Scorodonia, Lin. S. P. 789. 
Teucrium salvisefolium, Salisb. Prod. 76. 
Scorodonia heteroraalla, Moench Meth. 384. 
Scorodonia solitaria, Stokes B. M. M. 3, 374. 
Wood sage. Garlick sage. 
Woods and heaths ; perennial ; July. 
Rhizoma creeping; stem 4-sided, panicled, racemose'; 
leaves wrinkled ; flowers peduncled, yellow ; stamens violet. 
VII. 125. LAVANDULA. Gesner. Lavender. 
Calyx tubular, ovate; outside many-ribbed; inside bald; 
edge not cut or but slightly toothed ; periphyllum ovate, 
projecting; corolla tubular, long, bellied above; galea large, 
narrower than the lip, flat, 2-cut ; lip 3-lobed ; lobes equal, 
blunt; stamens 4, didynamous, from the side of the tube, 
convergent, enclosed. — Stem herbaceous or shrubby \ flowers 
spiked, bracteated. 
Lavandula Tragi. Tragus's lavender. 
Leaves sessile, lanceolate, linear, not cut, edge turned- 
under ; spike interrupted ; bractece lanceolate. 
Lavandula fiore crerulea, Ger. em. 583, I. 
Lavandula major, sive vulgaris, Park. 73. 
Lavandula Spica, Lin. S. P, 800. 
Lavandula Tragi, Salisb. Prod.18. 
Lavender spike. 
Cultivated shrubby; June and July. 
Stem upright ) stem-leaves scarcely turned under: branch- 
leaves turned under, airy underneath; hairs stellate ; bractese 
brown; flowers violet, sweet-scented. — Spikes yield much 
essential oil in distillation, oil very sweet-scented, contain- 
ing a large proportion of camphire ; flowers nervine, anti- 
spasmodic, cephalic. 
