Labiatse. 
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bent.—Dry pasturages; southern and western Switz. 
(but wanting in W.). 6 . . . . alba Pall. 1786. 
— FIs violet, rarely white. Teeth of the lower cal.-lip 
shortly ciliate with feebler hairs. Ls gen. undiv., rarely 
pinnatifid ........ 2 
2. Spike placed immediately above the highest pair of ls. 
Cor. 7—13 mm long, sometimes hardly longer than the 
cal. (v. parviflora). The longer stas with an acute, fairly 
straight, tooth below the anthers.— Varied: with pinnati¬ 
fid ls (v. pinnatifida Pers.).—As the last; everywhere. 6 
vulgaris L, 1787. 
— Spike some distance from the highest pair of ls. Cor. 
much larger than in the last, 20—25mm, but also 
sometimes smaller, the tube distinctly bent and the 
upper lip compressed-keeled. Stas long, with a short 
obtuse tubercle. — Varied: Ls pinnatifid, more strongly 
hairy (v. laciniata: P. pinnatifida Gaud, not Pers.).— 
As the last. 6.grandiflora Jacq. 1788. 
463. Ajuga. Bugle. XIV, 4. 
1. FIs yellow, solitary (rarely 2 together) in the l.-axils. 
Ls deeply 3-fid, with linear lobes.—Fields, fallow; not 
everywhere (wanting in G. T. A.). 6 
Chameepitys Schreb. 1789. 
— FIs blue, rose or white, 3—6 together in the axils of 
ls which are often coloured and form a spike. Ls un¬ 
div., sinuate or crenate ...... 2 
2. Fl.-ls (or bracts) coarsely dentate-crenate, the lower 
and middle ones gen. 3-lobed. Rad. ls 0 (destroyed) at 
the time of flowering, rarely existing (in an autumnal 
form). PI. without prostrate stolons, but often with several 
stems, the villosity denser than in A. reptans, and fls 
of an intenser blue.—Fields, bare mountain slopes, hills; 
distrib. 5.genevensis L. 1790. 
— Fl.-ls (bracts) entire or lightly sinuate-crenate. Rad.-ls 
large, not destroyed by the time of flowering . 3 
3. PI. with prostrate, leafy stolons, the stolons rarely, in 
an alpine form (b. alpestrix), wanting. Upper bracts 
shorter than, or at most as long as the Is.—Meadows, slopes; 
everywhere. 5 .... reptans L, 1791. 
— PI. without prostrate leafy stolons, bracts, the upper 
also, twice as long as the ls. PI. with a tufty habit, 
pyramidal; raceme or spike often commencing from the 
base of the stem.—Alp. and subalp.; (entirely wanting 
in the Jura and lowlands!). 6 . pyramidalis L. 1792. 
OBS. We have found A. genevensis-reptans (hybrida Kern.) near Munich 
(Eberle near St. Josephen). 
