CANNABIS: CXXX. URTICACKiE. 511 



ing in shades, smooth and shining. Leaves on long petioles, especially the 

 lower ones, smoothish, about 2' long and | as wide. Flowers in short heads 

 or corymbs, axillary. A species without stings. Aug., Sept. 



5. U. URENS. Burning ar Dwarf Nettle. 



Lvs. broadly elliptic, about 5-veined, acutely serrate ; cluster^' glomerate, 

 by pairs. — (T) Weed, in cultivated grounds. Stem 12 — 20' high, hispid with 

 venomous stings, branching. Leaves 1 — 2' long, f as broad, on short petioles 

 and with large serratures. Stipules small, lanceolate, reflexed. Flowers in 

 drooping, pedimculate clusters about as long as the petioles, both the sterile and 

 fertile in the same axil. Rare. June, July. ^ 



6. S. GRACILIS. Ait. Slender Nettle. 



St. erect, strict, sparingly hispid; Ivd. ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, 

 coarsely and somewhat doubly serrate, 3-veined, smoothish above, hispid be- 

 neath on the veins ; spikes elongated, pinnately branched, a little shorter than 

 the leaves ; Jls. glomerate. — Q\. Northern and Western States, and Brit. Am. 

 Stem 2 — 3f high. Flowers minute, green. July, Aug. 



6. BCEHMERIA. Willd. 



Named for G. F. Boehmer, a German botanist. 



Flowers c? or c? 9- — <^ Calyx 4-parted, with lanceolate, acute seg- 

 ments ; stamens 4. 9 achlamydeous ; ovary and style 1, in the axil 

 of a bract ; achenium compressed, margined. — Herbs or shrubs^ nearly 

 allied to Urtica. Lvs. opposite or alternate. Fls. clustered. 



B. cTLiNDRiCA. (Urtica cylindrica and capitata. Linn.) False Nettle. 

 Herbaceous; lvs. opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, dentate, smooth; 

 jls. cf 9 i sterile spikes glomerate, interrupted, /er/zYe cylindric. — A coarse, nettle- 

 like plant, in swamps and bottoms, Mid. and. Western States ! Stem slender, 

 obtusely 4-angled, channeled on each side, 2 — 3f high. Leaves 3-veined, 3 — 5' 

 long, J as wide, on long petioles. Flowers minute, the fertile ones in axillary, 

 cylindric spikes, 1 — 2' in length, the barren spikes rather longer and more 

 slender. July, Aug. 



/?. Spikes shorter, subcapitate ; petioles somewhat shorter. 



y. (B. lateriflora. MiM.) Lvs. roughish ; spikes longer and much interrupted. 



7. PARIETARIA. 



Lat. paries, a wall ; some of the species prefer to grow on old walls, &c. 



Flowers monoecious-polygamous, in clusters surrounded by a many- 

 cleft involucre ; calyx 4-parted ; stamens 4, at first incurved, then 

 expanding with an elastic force ; ovary and style 1 ; achenium pol- 

 ished, enclosed within the persistent calyx. — Herbs with usually al- 

 ternate leaves. Clusters of green Jiowers axillary . 



P. Pennstlvanica. PelUtory. 



Lvs. oblong-lanceolate, veiny, tapering to an obtuse point, punctate with 

 opaque dots ; invol. longer than the flowers. — (J) A rough, pubescent herb, found 

 in damp, rocky places, Vt., N. Y., W. to Wise. ! &c. Stem erect, simple or 

 sparingly branched, 6 — 12' high. Leaves alternate, entire, hairy and rough, 

 about h' wide and 3 or 4 times as long, petiolate, and ending with an obtuse 

 acumination. Segments of the involucre about 3, lance-linear. Flowers dense, 

 greenish and reddish-white. Rare. June. 



Section 3. CAXXABINE^. 

 Herbs, erect or twining, with a watery juice, c? racemose, or panicu 

 late, 9 in a cone-like ament. Albumen 0. 

 8. CANNABIS. 



XTahic gane.i, hemp. 



Flowers S' 9. — c? Calyx 5-parted. 9 Calyx entire, oblong-acumi 

 nate, opening longitudinally at the side ; sty. 2 ; ach. ? 2-valved, en- 



