196 Mr. Babington on a New English Species of Urtica, 



the other exactly corresponded with the U. Dodartii of Lin- 

 naeus, of which there is a specimen in the University Her- 

 barium, ticketed as the plant of Dodart by the elder Marty n, 

 and also another with the Lirmrcan description appended in 

 the hand-writing of the younger Martyn. In the Linnsean 

 Herbarium there is a specimen which quite accords with our 

 native plant, but its locality is unknown. Dodart's original 

 figure agrees very well with our plant, as do the descriptions 

 of all the authors to which I have been able to refer. In 

 Smith's Herbarium there is a specimen, marked U. Dodartii, 

 Martigny, Switz. in Herb. Davall, which differs from our 

 plant by having the leaves slightly serrated. 



I now proceed to give the characters and descriptions of our 

 two plants. 



1. U. Dodartii, Linn. Foliis oppositis ovatisovato-Ianceolatisve subintegris, 



stipulis lanceolatis, glomerulis fructiferis globosis pedunculatis, semini- 



bus sublsevibus. 

 U. altera pilulifera parietariag foliis, Dod* Mem. 131. plate. — U. Dodartii, 



Linn. Sp. PL 1395. Willd. Sp.Pl. 4. 347. Enum. Hort. Berol. 066. 



S>n. in Rees' Cyclop, v. 37. Alton. Hort. Kew. 5. 262. Reichen. FL 



excurs. No. 1106. 



Stems erect, numerous, cylindrical, hollow, leafy, 2 — 3 feet 

 high. Leaves ovate or slightly ovate-lanceolate, very nearly en- 

 tire, (in Marty n's specimens, gathered in the Cambridge garden, 

 September 1761, and in one of those in Smith's Herbarium, 

 they are decidedly serrate, but not in the same peculiarly 

 coarse way as in U. pilulifera,) 3 — 5 ribbed at the base, on 

 long stalks. Stipules small, narrowly lanceolate. Peduncles 

 axillary, two together. Male flowers on a slender common pe- 

 duncle, which is longer than the petiole, and has two or three 

 longish branches springing from the axil of a minute lanceo- 

 late bractea ; at the base and extremity of each branch there 

 is a cluster of very shortly branched flowers. 



Female flowers on a simple stalk which is shorter than the 

 petiole, in a dense globular head, Seed brown with numerous 

 dark purple dots, nearly smooth and shining. 



Locality, Copford, Essex, Rev. TV. Whitear ; Upwell, Nor- 

 folk, Rev. L. Jenyns ; near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, Rev. Dr. 

 Jermyn. The stations given by Reichenbach, who I believe 



