STA'CHYS CORSICA. 
CORSICAN STACHYS. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERSIIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATjE, 
Native of 
Heig’ht 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Corsica. 
f foot. 
July & Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1823. 
No. 676. 
The generic name, Stachys, is derived from the 
Greek word stachus, a spike; because, as Sir. J. 
E. Smith says, the flowers, though whorled, are 
more crowded into a spiked form than most others 
of the same natural order. 
Botanical writers enumerate upwards of a hun- 
dred species of Stachys, five of which are British. 
Some of these seem to have been held formerly in 
esteem for their properties of cleansing and healing 
wounds. One species — the Stachys coccinea, a 
native of South America, is a greenhouse plant of 
considerable beauty, but it has of late given place 
to the more splendid plants from the same country 
belonging to the genus Salvia. 
The Stachys Corsica grows compactly together, 
forming a neat tuft of foliage, mingled with flowers 
during two months of the middle of summer, and 
is deserving of culture either in the borders, on rock- 
work, or in pots ; in either of which situations it 
will grow freely, provided the soil be light and dry. 
When planted in a favourable situation it will ripen 
seeds, from which it may be increased as well as 
by division of its roots. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 4, 829. 
Class. 
DIDYNAailA. 
