S T A C H Y S. 
the exploiteur or marshal’s office; after which the public 
jail, for the confinement of criminals, debtors, and runaway 
or arrested negroes. In the adjoining town, to the south¬ 
east, is the burial-ground, comprising ten acres of land. In 
the new town, or Cumingsburgh, is the fiscal’s office, cus¬ 
tom-house, post-office, and a colonial hospital, for the recep¬ 
tion of those who are unable to defray medical expences, or 
being reduced by illness, are out of employ. Good houses, 
well situated for mercantile concerns, either in Stabroek or 
the new town, let with avidity for three, four, and five hun¬ 
dred pounds yearly. The population in Stabroek consists 
of about 1500 whites, 200 free people of colour, and 5000 
negroes. 
STABULA'TION, s. [ stabulatio , Lat.] Act of housing 
beasts. Not in use. Cockeram. 
STACHYS [of Pliny, 2 t of Dioscorides. So named 
from the flowers being in a spike], in Botany, a genus of 
the class didynamia, order gymnospermia, natural order of 
verticillatae or labiatse.—Generic Character. Calyx: pe¬ 
rianth one-leafed, tubular, angular, half-five-cleft, acuminate, 
permanent: toothlets acuminate, awl-shaped, a little unequal. 
Corolla one-petalled, ringent: tube very short: opening 
oblong, at the base gibbous downwards: upper lip erect, 
subovate, arched, often emarginate: lower lip larger, re¬ 
flexed on the sides, trifid; the middle segment very large, 
emarginate, folded back. Stamina: filaments four, two of 
them shorter, awl-shaped, when the anthers have shed their 
pollen curved back to the sides of the opening. Anthers 
simple. Pistil: germ four-parted. Style filiform. Stigma 
bifid, acute. Pericarp none. Calyx scarcely changed. Seeds 
four, ovate,angular.— Essential Character. Corolla, upper 
lip arched; lower reflexed at the sides; the middle segment 
larger, emarginate. Stamina finally reflexed towards the sides. 
1. Stachys sylvatica. Hedge woundwort, or hedge nettle. 
•—Whorls six-flowered; leaves cordate, petioled. Root 
perennial, creeping, but not very extensively. Stems from 
one to three feet high, upright, little branched, square, hairy, 
leafy. Sheep and goats eat it; horses, cows and swine 
refuse it. The herb will dye yellow. Frequent in hedges 
and other shady places: flowering in July and August. 
2. Stachys circinata, or blunt-leaved stachys.—Whorls 
six-flowered; leaves cordate-rounded, crenate. Root peren¬ 
nial.—Found in the mountains Zouwans of Tunis. 
3. Stachys palustris. Marsh woundwort, or clown’s all¬ 
heal.—Whorls six-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate, half¬ 
embracing. Root perennial, creeping to a great extent; the 
extremities at the close of summer becoming tuberous. Stems 
two feet high, upright, hollow, four-cornered, the sides 
flatfish, the corners rough with hairs pointing downwards ; 
the joints also are hairy and purple.—Native of Europe, in 
marshes, on the banks of rivers, in watery places, by road 
sides and in corn fields, especially in moist situations: flow¬ 
ering in July and August. 
4. Stachys Alpina, or Alpine Stachys.—Whorls many- 
flowered; serratures of the leaves cartilaginous at the tip; 
corollas with a flat lip. Root perennial. Colour of the 
plant dusky —Native of Germany, Switzerland, Carniola, 
Italy, and the South of France. 
5. Stachys Germanica. Downy stachys, or woundwort. 
—Root perennial. The whole herb remarkably invested 
with a white soft silky pubescence, in which respect it is 
only inferior to the garden stachys lanata, a species that 
differs from it besides in having blunter leaves, with stems 
procumbent at the base and taking root at that part. Leaves 
ovate, rather pointed, sharply crenate, reticulated with 
veins, silky above, most woolly beneath, the radical ones on 
long petioles, the rest smaller and nearly sessile: they feel 
very thick and soft like woollen cloth. Whorls axillary, 
numerous, many-flowered; the upper ones crowded. Co¬ 
rollas purple within, streaked about the mouth with white; 
their outside whitish and very downy, especially the upper 
lip. Stamens hairy. Seeds roundish, black. It varies with 
a white flower, and with narrrower leaves.—Native of Den¬ 
mark, Germany, Switzerland, France, England,. Austria, 
Carniola, Piedmont and Siberia, 
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6. Stachys intermedia, or oblong-leaved stachys.— 
Whorls many-flowered; calyxes subpungent; leaves ob¬ 
long, subcordate, crenate; stem somewhat woolly.—Native 
of Carolina. 
7. Stachys lanata, or woolly stachys.—Whorls many- 
flowered ; leaves woolly ; stems procumbent and rooting at 
the base. Root perennial.—It is a native of Siberia. 
8. Stachys Cretico, or Cretan stachys.—Whorls thirty- 
flowered; calyxes pungent; stem rough-haired.—Native "of 
the island of Crete or Candia. 
9. Stachys patens, or spreading stachys.—Very much 
branched; branches filiform; spreading; leaves lanceolate, 
serrate, smooth; flowers subverticillate.—Native of His¬ 
paniola. 
10. Stachys glutinosa, or clammy stachys.—Branches 
very much branched; leaves lanceolate, smooth. This is a 
little shrub, a foot high, very much branched, wholly 
smooth: branches opposite, dichotomous at top, four-cor¬ 
nered ; the last branchlets end in a spine.—Found in Candia. 
11. Stachys spinosa, or thorny stachys.—Branchlets ter¬ 
minated by a spine.—Native of Candia, in the western part 
of the island, in very dry places, among thyme. 
12. Stachys orientalis, or Levant stachys.—Leaves tomen- 
tose, ovate-lanceolate; floral-leaves shorter than the whorl. 
—Native of the Levant. 
13. Stachys Palaestina, or Palestine stachys.—Flowers 
subspiked; leaves lanceolate, sessile, tomentose, wrinkled, 
quite entire; calyxes awnless.—Native of Palestine. 
14. Stachys maritima. Yellow or sea stachys.—Leaves 
cordate, obtuse, tomentose, crenate; bractes oblong, quite 
entire.—Native of the South of Europe, on the coast. 
15. Stachys iEthiopica, or Cape stachys.—Whorls two- 
flowered.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
16. Stachys hirta, or procumbent stachys.—Whorls six- 
flowered ; stems prostrate; upper lip of the corolla bifid, 
divaricate, reflexed.—Native of Spain, Italy, the Levan', and 
Barbary, about Tunis. 
17. Stachys Canariensis, or Canary stachys.—Whorls 
six-flowered; leaves cordate, villose, crenate; stems almost 
erect; fruiting calyxes of a very spreading bell shape.—Na¬ 
tive of the Canary islands. 
18. -Stachys lavandulifolia, or lavender-leaved stachys.— 
Whorls six flowered, very hirsute; leaves lanceolate, quite 
entire, marked with lines.—Native of the Levant. 
19. Stachys recta, or upright stachys.—Whorls subspiked ; 
leaves cordate-elliptic, crenate, rugged; stems ascending.— 
Native of the South of Europe. 
20. Stachys arenaria, or sand stachys.—Whorls subspiked,, 
six-flowered, villose; leaves lanceolate, obtuse,serrate; stems 
procumbent at the base. 
21. Stachys annua, or white annual stachys — Whorls 
six-flowered; leaves ovate lanceolate, three-nerved, even, 
petioled; stem erect.—Native of Germany, Austria, Car¬ 
niola, Switzerland, Piedmont and France. 
22. Stachys rugosa, or rough stachys.—Whorls six-flow¬ 
ered ; leav.es lanceolate, attenuated at the base, tomentose, 
wrinkled, serrate; calyxes awnless.—Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
23. Stachys arvensi. Corn stachys, or woundwort.— 
Whorls six-flowered ; leaves cordate, obtuse, crenate, some¬ 
what hairy; stem weak. Root small, annual. Stem from 
a span to a foot in height, among corn upright, but alone 
weak or procumbent, branched, somewhat hairy ; branches 
brachiate. Leaves three-nerved at the base, widely crenate, 
somewhat hairy on both sides, petioled, except the upper¬ 
most. Flowers all in whorls. Calyx hairy, with the teeth 
ciliate. Corolla small, scarcely exceeding the calyx, pale 
purple or flesh-coloured : upper lip short, blunt and entire. 
Filaments white below and purple above: anthers blackish; 
pollen yellow. Seeds greenish, dotted with, black.—Native 
of Europe, in corn fields, in a gravelly or calcareous soil: 
flowering from June to August. 
24. Stachys latifolia, or broad-leaved stachys.—Whorls 
many-flowered, subspiked; upper lip bifid, with the little 
segments acute; leayes broad, cordate, wrinkled, hairy, 
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