Labiatae. 
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454. Stachys. Woundwort. XIV, 24. 
1. FIs red ......... 2 
— FIs pale yellow or white and yellow ... 8 
2. Clusters composed of 6 or more fls. Bracteoles (of the 
separate fls) at least half as long as the cal. . 3 
— Clusters 1—3- (rarely 5-) fld. Bracteoles very small or 0 5 
3. PI. green, villous, glandular above.—Mountain woods; 
distrib. 7 ..alpina L. 1767. 
— PI. covered with a dense white tomentum, without glands 4 
4. Rad. Is gen. cordate at the base. PI. covered with a 
white-woolly, long, spreading, villosity.—Stony waste 
places, and road-sides in warm parts (wanting in U. L.). 7 
germanica L. 1768. 
— Rad. Is narrowed at the base. PI. covered with a more 
appressed, white-woolly, almost silken tomentum.—Natu¬ 
ralised since 1814 on a hill near La Sarraz. 7, 8 
*lanata Jacq. 1769. 
5 (2). Ls cordate-oval, obtuse, almost as broad as long, 
crenate. Cor. hardly longer than the cal. Root fusiform. 
— Fields; western Switz. as far as Aargau. 6 
arvensis L. 1770. 
— Ls distinctly longer than broad. Cor. twice as long as 
the cal. Rt-stock creeping ..... 6 
6. Stem glandular above. Ls with long petioles, oval or 
oval-oblong, acuminate, deeply cordate at the base.— 
Woods; distrib. 6 . . . . sylvatica L. 1771. 
— Stem without glands (except sometimes at the top). Ls ob¬ 
long or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or feebly cordate at 
the base, sessile or shortly petioled ... 7 
7. Ls shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, almost toothed 
(the crenatures acuminate). Fls of a rather deep red. 
St. palustris-sylvatica!—Damp places, ditches; fairly 
distrib. 7. *ambigua Sm. 1772. 
— Ls, except those at the base, sessile, rarely (v. petiolata 
Cel.) the upper also petioled, oblong-lanceolate or lanceo¬ 
late, crenate. Fls light rose. —Damp fields, ditches; dis¬ 
trib. 6. palustris L. 1773. 
8 (1). Ls glabr. or almost so. Bracts of the clusters lanceo¬ 
late or linear-lanceolate. Root fusiform.—Fields; distrib. 7 
annua L. 1774. 
— Ls hairy. Bracts of the clusters oval. Rt-stock hard, 
woody, branched. —Stony places, hills; distrib. 6 
recta L. 1775. 
OBS. Hybrids: St. alpina-lanuta ; St. alpina-sylvatica. 
455. Betonica. Betony. XIV, 26. 
1. Fls pale yellow. B. Alopecurus auct. not L. (the true 
B. Alopecurus of the Pyrenees and of Dauphine appears 
