STACHYS annua.
Pale annual Woundwort.
DID YNA M IA Gymnospemiia.
Gen. Char. Cal. campanulate, 10-ribbed, 5-toothed,
nearly equal, acuminate. Cor. with the tube as
long as the calyx; upper lip mostly arched, entire
; lower one 3-lobed, with the 2 lateral lobes
reflexed. JBentham.
Spec. Char. Annual, erect, downy. Leaves ob-
lon go-lanceolate, rather acute, crenato-serrate,
3-nerved; the lower ones stalked. Whorls of
about 6 flowers, spicate. Calyx hairy, its segments
subulate. Seeds roundish, glossy.
Syn. Stachys annua. Linn. Sp. PL 813. Willd.
Sp. PI. v. 3. 105. Jacq. Austr. v. 4. t. 360.
Smith in Rees’ Cyel. n. 8. Spreng. Syst. Veget.
v. 2. 734. Duby, Bot. Gall. 367.
Sideritis arvensis, &c. Bauh. Pin. 233.
Betonica foliis ovatis, &c. Hall. Helv. n. 263.
F o r the addition of this species of Stachys to the catalogue
of British plants, we are indebted to Joseph Woods,
Esq., who communicated specimens from a field on the
right of the road between Gad’s Hill and Rochester, in the
month of August 1830, to Mr. Sowerby. The field, however,
was cropped with white wheat, and it is possible that
the seeds may have been introduced with the grain of that
plant from the Continent; the species being certainly indigenous
in France and Germany.
The root is small, fibrous, annual. The stem from a