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It also differs in the shnpe of the barren stamen, which is divided 
into 2 divaricate lobes with a slight notch between them. 
S. Neesii, of Wirtgen, differs, in haying the lobes of the stami- 
node more erect, not divaricate; but it is doubtful if it be really 
distinct. I have seen specimens of S. Ehrharti only from the Scotch 
locality, but Botanists will do well to examine the abortive stamen 
in those from other places, to see if the staminode has the lobes 
always divaricate. 
Ehrharfa Water Betony. 
SPECIES III— SCROPHULARIA NODOSA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXLIX. 
Rack. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXIX. 
L'illot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1718. 
Rootstock tuberous, nodose. Stem acutely quadrangular, the 
angles without wings. Leaves ovate or triangular-ovate, with 
scarcely winged petioles, acute, serrate or crenate-serrate, abrupt or 
sometimes subcordate at the base, without lateral lobes from the 
petiole. Flowers in lax axillary cymes arranged in an elongate 
lax panicle. Lowest bracts resembling the leaves; upper ones 
linear. Pedicels rather slender, with gland-tipped hairs only 
at the base, two to five times as long as the calyx at the time of 
flowering. Divisions of the calyx oval-orbicular, with narrow 
scarious margins. Corolla three times as long as the calyx, not 
contracted at the throat. Abortive stamen transversely deltoid- 
reniform, very slightly notched. Capsule globose-conical, gradually 
acuminated. Plant glabrous. 
In damp shady places, woods, by the sides of ditches, &c. Very 
common, and generally distributed ; but not reaching to Orkney 
and Shetland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Rootstock much thickened, greenish-white, with fleshy knobs. 
Stem 18 inches to 3 feet high, not winged as in the two preceding 
species, but with a raised line at the angles. Petioles slightly 
winged at the very top, but not at all so for the lower two-thirds. 
Leaves 2 to 7 inches long, tapering from a little above the base to 
the apex, coarsely and unequally or doubly serrate, with the teeth 
largest near the base, the veins deeply impressed on the upper 
surface. Flowers f inch long, green, suffused with dull-brown 
towards the apex. The cymes are less divaricate than those of 
S. Ehrharti, and the peduncles much more erect, and only one or 
