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Uncultivated land, dry meadows. – Reported by Fiori (1926: 426-427) for Southern and Eastern
Sicily, but perhaps only adventice. It does not appear in CAT neither PAL. – RR.
1831. Ballota hispanica (L.) Benth., Labiat. Gen. Sp.: 597 (1834) [Bas. Marrubium his-
panicum L., Sp. Pl.: 583 (1753); Ballota rupestris (Biv.) Vis.; Marrubium rupestre
Raf.; incl. B. sicula Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 2 (2): 229 (1904)]
Shady cliffs, ravines. – Sicilia, Bafia, Noara (Gussone 1844); Palermo (Ross 1899); M. S.
Giuliano, S. Bernabò, Martogna e M. Cofano (Ponzo 1900); Alcamo Macchia dei Ginepri e M.
Bonifato (Ponzo 1903); Sicilia dappertutto (Lojacono 1904); Siracusa (Zodda 1929); M.
Pellegrino (Raimondo ed. 1992); M. S. Giuliano, Sciacca Gole della Tardara (Raimondo & al.
2004). – NC.

* Ballota nigra L., Sp. Pl.: 582 (1753) subsp. nigra
Herbarium material needs to be revised because generally determined at the specific rank. –
Ruins, uncultivated land, hedges (nitrophilous). – Perhaps to be found in Sicily according to
Béguinot in Fiori and Paoletti (1903: 39), according to Fiori (1926: 426) it is certainly to be
found, however it is excluded by Patzak (1972), Pignatti (1982) and Greuter & al. (1986: 281).
To be verified. – ?R.
* Ballota nigra subsp. velutina (Posp.) Patzak in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 62: 67 (1958)
[Bas. B. velutina Posp., Fl. Österr. Küstenl. 2: 599 (1899); B. nigra L. subsp. meridio-
nalis (Bég.) Bég. in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 16: 106 (1909); B. meridionalis Calest.
(1904)]
Siracusa (Zodda 1929), not confirmed. It needs further survays. – ?R.

1832. Ballota nigra subsp. uncinata (Bég. in Fiori & Paoletti) Patzak in Ann. Naturhist.
Mus. Wien 62: 64 (1958) [Bas. Ballota nigra var. meridionalis (Bég.) Bég. in Nuovo
Giorn. Bot. Ital. 16: 106 (1909) fo. uncinata Bég. in Fiori & Paoletti, Fl. Anal. Ital. 3
(1): 39 (1903); Ballota alba L. p.p.]
Herbarium material needs to be revised because generally determined at the specific rank. –
Ruins, uncultivated land, hedges, nitrophiled ground. – Throughout the coastland but not very
common. Lago Gurrida, Pantano Gariffi, Lago Gorgo (Lopriore 1900); Palermo (Fiori &
Paoletti 1903: 39); Lucca Sicula (Marcenò & al. 1985); Gurna di Mascali (Minissale &
Spampinato 1990); Nicolosi Abbazia di S. Nicolò (Poli & al. 1990); M. Pellegrino (Raimondo
ed. 1992); Fiume Oreto (Traina & Marcenò 2001); Carcaci presso l’abbeveratoio (Raimondo
& al. 2004). – C.

1833. Stachys germanica L., Sp. Pl.: 582 (1753) var. germanica [S. polystachya Ten., Fl.
Napol. 1, Prodr.: xxxiv (1812)]
Pastures, uncultivated land on limestone. – Pantano Catania e Simeto fino a Paternò, Lago
Gurrida, Biviere Gela (Lopriore 1900); Militello Val di Noto strada della Cava dei Monaci,
Agosta tra il fiume del Molinello e Melilli, Trazzera di Tripi, Feudo di Riela (Lojacono 1904);
?Mistretta: tra Montagna e Medda (Gramuglio 1954); Castelbuono in Contrada Barraca,
(Raimondo PAL). – R.
1834. Stachys germanica var. dasyanthes (Raf.) Arcang., Comp. Fl. Ital. ed. 2: 437 (1894)
[Bas. S. dasyanthes Raf., Précis Découv. Somiol.: 39 (1814); olim S. cretica Guss.
(1828) non L. p.p., inde S. dasyanthes (1834); incl. “var. β caule humiliore + var. foliis
utrique virentibus” sensu Lojac. (1904)]