136 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
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PRUNELLA. Selfh2al* 
The cup is monophyllous, bilabiated, fhorter than the 
faux, and remains till the fruit be ripe. The upper lip 
is plain, broad, truncated, (lightly tridentated ; the lower 
lip is ere6t, narrow, acute, and femibifid. The flower is 
monopetalous and ringent, the tube is ,(liort and cylin- 
draceous, the faux is oblong. The upper lip is epneave, 
entire, and nodding-, the lower lip is reflex, trifid, and 
obtufe-, the middle fegment is broader, emarginated 
and ferrated. The four filaments are fubulated, bifurcat- 
ed at the apices, of which two are a little longer; the an- 
theras are Ample, and* inferred into the filaments beneath 
the apex. The germen is quadripartite, the ftyle flendeit- 
and inclined 'with the ftamma to the upper lip and the 
fliigma is emarginated; the cup is (hut and contains four 
fubovate feeds. , _ ^ ^ r . 
Obf. Linn. 1 he eflfential charadler confifts in the 
bifurcated filaments like Cramhes. , 
Vulgaris. Selfheal^iih ovaco-oblong leaves upon foot- 
ftalks. Per. Aug! I found (in company with J. Benson, 
Efq. Mr. Parkinson, and feveral.. others) a variety of 
this plant, with a milk -white flower, in a fleldncari)^?/- 
ton-liaU Burion-^Wefi. . 
angiospermia; 
