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47. LEONtTRUS, L. MOTHERWORT. (Aiuv, a lion, and oiJpa, tail.) 

 Herbs of the Old World, weeds or escapes from gardens in the New : herbage 

 bitter : flowers small, in summer. 



L. CARDIACA, L. (COMMON MOTHERWORT.) Tall perennial, more or less pubescent : leaves 

 long-petioled, pnlmately cleft ; the lower rounded ; floral rhombic-lanceolate, 3-clcft ; 

 lobes lanceolate: flowers much shorter than the petioles; corolla pale purple; its upper lip 

 very villous outside, narrowed at base, hardly galeate, at length often recurved ; lower 

 deflexed, spotted : stamens often recurving outwards after anthesis : anther-cells parallel. 



Waste and cult, ground, in manured soil. (Nat. from Eu.) 



L. MARRUBIASTRUM, L. Tall biennial, minutely soft-pubescent : leaves ovate or oblong, or 

 the floral lanceolate, coarsely serrate or incised: calyx-teeth slender, rather aristiform 

 than spinescent : corolla minute, whitish, almost glabrous ; its lips less divergent : stamens 

 little exserted beyond the throat: anther-cells diverging. C/iaitiirus Marrubiastntm, Ehrh. 



Waste grounds, New Jersey to Delaware, and southward; rare. Related as much to 

 Sideritis as to Leonwnis; might be placed next to Marrubium. (Nat. from Eu.) 



L. SIBIRICUS, L. Tall biennial, minutely puberulent or nearly glabrous: leaves 3-parted; 

 the divisions 2-5-cleft, or deeply 3-7-cleft and incised : corolla purplish, twice the length of 

 the calyx ; upper lip fornicate, lower little spreading. Waste grounds, Pennsylvania 

 (near Philadelphia, Martindale), New Mexico, &c. (Sparingly nat. from Eu. & Asia.) 



48. LAMIUM, Tourn. DEAD-NETTLE. (From laifio^-, the throat, alluding 

 to the ringent corolla.) Spreading or decumbent herbs, with mostly cordate 

 incised or doubly toothed leaves ; the lower long-petioled ; upper becoming sessile 

 or roundish at base, subtending sessile and loose or capitate clusters of purple or 

 sometimes white flowers. Anthers in our species hirsute. Natives of the Old 

 World, some naturalized in waste places or fields, eastward. 



L. AMPLEXICAULE, L. Biennial or winter annual, weak and slender, low : leaves distant ; lowest 

 small, roundish-cordate, coarsely crenate, long-petioled ; upper subsessile or clasping, cre- 

 nately lobed and incised : corolla slender, purple, with spotted lower lip, truncate lateral lobes, 

 and upper lip villous on the back. Rather common, Canada to Florida. (Nat. from Eu.) 



L. PURPUREUM, L. Resembles the last, but with leaves (even the upper floral) all petioled 

 and only crenate-serrate : calyx-teeth more slender : small lateral teeth to the orifice of the 

 corolla. Penn. and New England. (Sparingly nat. from Eu.) 



L. ALBUM, L. Stouter, a foot or two high, more leafy and hirsute-pubescent : root peren- 

 nial : leaves ovate, cordate or truncate at base, acuminate, coarsely serrate, mostly peti- 

 oled : corolla white, an inch long, with tube curved upwards and throat rather narrow ; 

 upper lip oblong; a long slender appendage at each side of the throat. E. New England. 

 (Sparingly nat. from Eu.) 



49. G-ALE6FSIS, L. HEMP-NETTLE. (Faltrj, a weasel, and oyig, re- 

 semblance, " very like a weasel" to a lively imagination only. The popular name 

 is little less natural. ) Annual weeds of Europe : naturalized in waste places 

 and garden soil : fl. late summer. 



G. TETRAIIIT, L. Hispid : stem swollen below the joints : leaves ovate, acuminate, coarsely 

 serrate : corolla light purple, variegated, 6 to 10 lines long. Common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



G. LADANUM, L. Pubescent, lower and smaller : leaves oblong-lanceolate : corolla red or rosc- 

 color. E. New England, in few places. (Barely nat. from Eu.) 



50. STACHYS, Tourn. WOUNDWORT. (JVa/iv, a spike, primarily a 

 spike or ear of corn, and the ancient Greek name of this genus or of some similar 

 plants, from the spicate inflorescence.) A large genus, widely dispersed ; ours 

 all herbs, with the flowers verticillastrate-capitate or clustered, or sometimes few 



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