DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Prunella. 725 
the base, slightly hairy. Calyx with two lips, but very slightly cloven; 
upper lip with a flat ridge Vunning across it, which, when the blossom 
falls, enlarges, and pressing down the upper lip, closes the mouth of the 
calyx, giving it the appearance of a helmet; middle segment rather 
shorter, nearly flat; lower lip broad, rather reflexed, but neither notched 
at the end nor keeled beneath. Blossom pale reddish purple, the lower 
lip mottled within with deeper coloured spots. Anthers white. Summit 
slightly cloven. ( Leaves broader and less wrinkled than those of the 
preceding species. Flowers scarcely half so large; very rarely blue, 
according to Curtis. E.) 
Lesser Scull-cap. Boggy ground and edges of ponds. Hampstead 
Heath, (where Gerard first discovered it, in 1590, ce neere unto the head 
of the springs that were digged for water to be conveied to London/ 7 E.) 
Mr. Aikin. Lewesdon Hill. Mr. Baker. In Goldmire, near Dalton. Mr. 
Atkinson. Seaman’s Moss, on the part next to Altringham, Cheshire. 
Mr. Caley. (In Bagot’s Park, and on Norton Bog, Staffordshire. Hon. 
Mr. Bagot. Needwood Forest, Staffordshire. In Terrington Car, York¬ 
shire. Teesdale. Sides of bogs on the forest near Tunbridge Wells. 
Forster, in Bot. Guide. In a pit at Streatham. Martyn. Putney and 
Shirley Commons. Curtis. Wareham Heath, and in Purbeck. Pulteney. 
Culgaith Moor, and Keswick. Hutchinson. Mr. Winch says no Botanist 
has since noticed it in Cumberland. Boggy places in Staley Moor, 
Cheshire. Mr. Bradbury. Swampy meadows and pastures about Car¬ 
narvon and Llanberris. Bingley. On the bogs of Haldon, Devon. Rev. 
J. Pike Jones. At Brabourne, Willesboro’ Leas, and Ham Ponds, Kent. 
Mr. G. E. Smith. On Cae rhos Lligwy, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Banks 
of the Clyde at Rose-bank. Ure. Hook. Scot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
PRUNEL/LA. # Filaments forked, one of the divisions bearing 
the anther : Summit cloven. 
P. vulga'ris. All the leaves egg-oblong, serrated, on leaf-stalks: 
upper lip of the calyx lopped, tridentate. 
Curt. 229— (E. Bot. 961. E.) — Ludw. 19— Kniph. 5—FI. Dan. 910— 
Blackw. 24— ‘Mill. 69. 2 —Dod. 136. 1 —Lob. Ohs. 251. 3, and Ic. i. 474. 
2— Ger. Em. 632. 1— Park. 1680. 1— II. Ox. xi. 5, row 1. 1. f. 4— Pet. 
32. 11— Wale .— Riv. Mon. 29. 1. Brunella — Ger. 507. 1 —Fuchs . 621— J. 
B. iii. 428. 2—Trag. 310— Matth. 963. 
In open sunny situations it grows trailing, and not above a finger’s length, 
but in woods it is upright, and near a foot high. Linn. Whole plant 
thinly set with hairs. Leaves opposite. Floral-leaves heart-shaped, 
ribbed, edged with purple and fringed. Calyx, upper lip with seven ribs;; 
lower lip with two spe^r-shaped segments, each marked with three lines, 
and serrated with short stiff hairs. Blossom blue, purplish, or white ; 
upper lip slightly notched at the end : lower lip, middle segment jagged. 
Summit, segments revolute. ( Stem often branched, set with whitish hairs. 
Flowers densely whorled, forming an obtuse, cylindrical, oblong, solitary 
spike. E.) 
(Var. FI. alb. Aspatria Moss, Cumberland. Rev. J. Dodd. E.) 
Self-heal. (Irish: Keannavan beug. Welsh: Meddyges las. E.) Mea« 
dows and pastures. P. Aug. 
* (From the German die breune, sore throat; the plant having formerly been esteemed, 
as a vulnerary for the cure of apthse and inflammation of the fauces. E.) 
