BETO'NICA SERO'TINA. 
late-flowering betonica. 
Class. 
iudynamia. Order. 
GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
labiate. 
Native of 
Austria. 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
18 inches 
August, 
Perennial. 
Introduced 
in 1832. 
No. 1186. 
Tile generic name, Betonica, seems to have been 
a corruption of Vettonica, which, according to Pliny 
m the twenty-fifth book of his Natural History, was 
an appellation employed in France, for a herb of 
many virtues. 
odem botanists, on a revisal of the order Labia- 
te, haye found it advisable to distribute all the spe- 
cies of Betonica amongst other genera, and the 
greater portion of them, as left by Linneus and more 
recent authors, are transferred to Stachys. These 
it IS true, are inconveniences, but they are not the’ 
fruits of mere caprice; they originate from the dis- 
covery of new plants, possessing intermediate or new 
combinations of character, which cannot be botani- 
cally located, but by a revisal of the existing defini- 
tions of vegetable families. We notice this revision 
but employ the name established in gardens. 
Betonica serotina, when first introduced from Aus- 
tria soon became a much esteemed hardy plant, for 
border culture, requiring no peculiar attention, and 
continuing long in flower. If its stems be cut down 
e ore it has done flowering, a second crop will be 
produced. 1 
