PRUNE I/LA WEBBIA'NA. 
WEBBS SELF-HEAL. 
Class. 
DIDYN AM IA . 
Order. 
GY M NOSPERM IA. 
Natural Order. 
lamiacea:. 
Country 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. [Cultivated 
Uncertain. 
1 foot. 
Aug., Sep. 
Perennial.! in 1844. 
No. 1118. 
It rarely happens that any botanical name is 
found to have had its origin from the German 
language. The Greeks and Latins led the way in 
science, and to them chiefly, not only the Germans, 
but the people of most other countries, stand in- 
debted for their scientific nomenclature. The word 
Prunella, is however said, by Gerard, to have been 
deduced from the German Brunellen, a name 
adopted from the virtue of the plant in curing a 
disease of the throat, called die bruen. Some 
authors conceive the name to have been founded 
on pruno, a burn, from its efficacy in the healing 
of bums. 
This is a showy plant, of dwarf growth, flowering 
abundantly nearly all the summer. We have no 
information of the introduction of this plant to 
England, but it is supposed to have been sent 
home by Mr. P. B. Webb, an ardent botanist, who 
has travelled extensively in Europe and Asia, and 
hence the application of the specific name. 
This species we find to be quite hardy ; and it 
admits of ready increase by parting the roots ; or 
it may be raised from seeds. 
