Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 343 369 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Betonica hirsuta Linnaeus , Mantissa Plantarum Altera : 248. 1771 . "Habitat in Apenninis. D. Bassi hanc rescuscitavit." RCN: 4231. Neotype (Cristofolini in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 50: 510. 2001): Italy. Apennines. " Betonica foliis hirsutis floribus purpureis amplissimis / Monti in Zan:46 / Betonica alpina incana purpurea / Barrel:Ico:340:" F. Bassi (BOLO). Current name: Stachys pradica (Zanted.) Greuter & Pignatti ( Lamiaceae ). Note: Linnaeus provided a new diagnosis, cited a Mentzel polynomial in synonymy, and gave an extensive description. He added "Habitat in Apenninis. D. Bassi hanc rescuscitavit". Herb. Linn. 735.6 ( LINN ) , material from Allioni, is unannotated as to identity by Linnaeus, although Smith subsequently determined it ( in sched. ) as B. hirsuta . It is not accepted as original material for the name and, in the absence of any original elements, material from Fernandino Bassi's collection (BOLO) was designated as a neotype by Cristofolini. The epithet "hirsuta" is not available in Stachys because it is preoccupied by S. hirsuta Kunth (1817) . The current name was given as S. monieri (Gouan) P.W. Ball by Heywood (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 65: 356. 1972). However, Greuter & Pignatti (in Giorn. Bot. Ital. 113: 360-361. 1979) argued that Betonica monieri Gouan is a synonym of Stachys officinalis (L.) Trevis. , not of B. hirsuta , based on a study by Lacaita (in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. , n.s., 28: 118-124. 1921). Greuter & Pignatti argued that B. pradica Zanted. is the next available name for the latter, and made the necessary combination.