39 6 
URTICA DIOICA. 
COMMON NETTLE. 
8 T NO NT MA. Urtica. Pbarm. Land. £f Edinb 
Urt 
maxima 
Bauh, Pin. p 
3 
Urtica 
ica urcns 
706 
440 
Urtica maj 
Igaris & media fylveftris. Park 
Gerard. Emac. p 
Urtica racemifera 
maj 
perennis 
h 
R 
The at. . p 
60 
Synop. p, 
1 
Urtica ftirpibus fexu diftin&is, foliis ferrat 
39 
produ&is, Hal. Stirp. Helv 
614 
Urtica dioic 
a 
Hudf.Ang. p. 417. Light/. Scot. p.. 578. Withering Bot. Arr. p. 
1. Con. Flat. Dan,, p.. 746. Curt. Flor. Lond.. 
Clafs Monoecia. Ord. Tetrandria. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 1054 
Eff. Gen. Ch. Mjsc.- Gal: 4-phyllus. 
Cor. 
o. 
Neclarium cen 
trale, cyathiforme. 
M : .. Cal. 2-valvis. C 
or..o> 
• • 
umcum, nitidum 
> 
3 
Sp. Ch. 
U. foliis oppofitis cordatis, racemis geminis. 
/• 
THE root 
and fupplied with joints 
Up feveral ftalks, which 
is perennial, creeping, yellowifh, furrowed 
are erecl: 
which proceed many fibres : it fends 
ruia^fanm.L. f ' i ™~»- very little branched,, obtufely 
1 rT ^^ f ™ ed V PUr P lifh ' befGt With H S id hai ^ * nd Anally 
rile irom two to four feet in height: the 1™ *r* Wt.rw/ 
from two to four feet 
pointed, widely ferrated 
fling 
g 
hairs 
d ftand 
in height 
wrinkled 
leaves 
d 
are heart-fhaped 
j covered with fharp 
ppofitely upon flender footftalks : at the 
tS£?3S£\ JSRE *fe «* 
are narrow 
fl%*?iPK growin 
hairy racemi 
flow 
rer is 
or clutters of fo 
hannelled : the flowers are dioicous, 
branched pendulous 
ZTr „ Iour together: the calyx 
tour foall egg-fhaped obtufe fegments 
aly 
S!™5 : *f neaari ™ *• turbinated 
d at the top, and placed 
the 
moft tranfp 
centre of the fl 
of the male 
there is no 
blunt, per- 
r : the fila- 
ments 
