96 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Galeopsls. 



swelled upwards. Leaves ovate, large, dark green, acute, 

 coarsely serrated, closely hairy on both sides, strongly scented 

 when bruised, but not aromatic. Fl. numerous, in many dense 

 whorls. Cal. with long sharp teeth, and a bristly tube. Cor. 

 about twice the length of the calyx ; tube slender, white ; upper 

 lip nearly straight, but slightly convex, purple, crenate, not 

 cloven ; lower about equally 3-lobed, variegated with white and 

 purple, with dark lines in the middle. 

 The^owe7S vary somewhat in size and colour, being occasionally 

 quite white. The terminal one of all is now and then regular, 

 with 4 equal stamens, first observed in 1/88, at Matlock, as re- 

 corded in Linn. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 201. 



4. G. versicolo?'. Large-flowered Hemp-nettle. Bee 



Nettle. 

 Stem bristly; swelled below the joints. Corolla thrice the 

 length of the calyx ; upper lip tumid; middle lobe of the 

 lower heart-shaped. 



G. versicolor. Curt. Lond. fasc. C. ^38. Fl. Br. C30. Engl. Bot. 



V. 10. t. G67. Hook. Scot. 1 82. Winch Guide v. 1. 56. Burton 



v.3.5(i5. 

 G. cannablna. Willd. Sp. Bl. v. 3. 93. BulUch v.2. 1 48. Fl. Dan. 



t.929. 

 G. Tetrahit (o. Linn. Sp. Bl. 810. Light/. 310. Huds. L 257. 

 G. n. 269. Hall. Hist. v.\. 1 17. 

 Lamium cannabino folio, flore aniplo lutco, labio purpureo. Rait 



Sijn. 241. 

 L. cannabinum aculeatum, flore specioso luteo, labiis purpureis. 



Bluk.Jlmag. 204. Bhyt.t.AX.fA; bad. 

 Cannabis spuria, flore majore. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 32. 

 C. spuria angustifolia, variegato flore. Barrel. Ic. t. 1 158. 

 (B. Lamium cannabinum, floribus albis, verticillis purpurascentibus. 



Rail Sijn. 241. 

 y. Cannabis spuria, flore albo magno eleganti. Merr. Bin. 19. 



Dill, in Raii Syn. 240. 



In sandy corn-fields. 



Not rare in the north of England or in Norfolk. I have observed 

 it also at Moffat and near Edinburgh ; as Sir T. G. Cullum did 

 very abundantly at Gretna Green. 



Annual. July, August. 



Like the last in general habit, but with paler and broader leaves. 

 Fl. much larger, yellow, with red or orange marks on the pa- 

 late, the 2 protuberances in front much more considerable ; the 

 middle segment of the lower lip inversely heart-shaped, purple, 

 bordered with white ; upper lip broad, convex, very hairy, co- 

 piously notched. 



Tliis is doubtless a distinct species, propagating itself by seed un- 



