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A J U G A alpina.
Alpine Bugle.
D ID Y N A M 1 A Gymnofpermia.
G e n . C h a r . Upper lip of the Corolla very minute,
and much fhorter than the ftamina.
S p e c . C h a r . Stem Ample. Leaves almoft fmooth,
irregularly toothed, all nearly of a fize. Whorls
not crowded, of many flowers.
S y n . Ajuga alpina. Linn. Mant. 8o.
A.genevenfis. With. 516. Scholler FI. Barb. 135.
A. pyramidalis. Hudf. 248.
Bugula casrulea alpina. Pluk. Phyt. t. 18. ƒ. 3.
Rail Syn. 245.
E have received a fpecimen of this plant from Durham
by favour of Mr. Robfon, and another gathered by Mr. Daw-
fon Turner, in July 1795, on the fummit of a mountain near
Caftleton, Derbyfhire. There is no doubt of its being the
A. alpina of Linnaeus, as his defcription and numerous fpeci-
mens prove; notwithftanding great variations to which it is
liable in the upper leaves, which are fometimes quite entire, or
llightly waved, at other times furnifhed with a few large deep
indentations or lobes.
The root is perennial, with long fibres. Stems fimple,
eredt, near a foot high, deftitute of running fcyons at the bafe,
angular, llightly hairy, leafy; the pairs of leaves and the whorls
are rather diftant, by no means crowded into a pyramidal form
as in A. pyramidalis, nor are the radical leaves (as in that fpe-
cies) 3 or 4 times as large as thofe on the Item, and very hairy;
but, on the contrary, the lower leaves are but little larger than
the others, and all very nearly fmooth, veiny, unequally toothed.
The bradteae are. fometimes quite entire, fometimes toothed ;
the uppermoft only tinged with purple; whereas in A. pyramidalis,
they are all reddilh. Flowers from 10 to 20 in each
whorl. Calyx chiefly hairy at the teeth. Flowers pale,
ftreaked with deeper blue.— The real A. genevenjis of Linnaeus,
in his herbarium, is very woolly, and more denfely fpiked than
our plant, with leaves rather crenate than toothed. Yet we
are by no means certain of its being more than a variety.
Whether the pyramidalis be alfo a Britilh plant, we have not yet
fatisfadtorily determined.