| Description | Botanical study of Prunella vulgaris, common name self-heal. A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society... 1725' by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society volume 34, issue 395 (1727), p.125.
Plant with green and purple leaves, and tall green stems topped with clusters of tubular purple flowers, shown open and in bud. Inscribed in ink 'Brunella Caroliniana magno flore dilute coeruleo internodiis longissimiss. Rand.' Not signed. |