708 ORD. XII. Scabride. 
URTICA. DIQISA: 3 COMMON NETTLE. 
a a RTE EA 
SYNONYMA. Urtica. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Urtica urens 
maxima. Bauh. Pin. p. 232. Urtica urens.. Gerard. Emac. p. 
706. Urtica major vulgaris & media sylvestris. Park. Theat. p. 
440. (Urtica racemifera major perennis, Raii Synop. p. 139, 
Hist. p. 160.  Urtica stirpibus sexu distinctis, foliis serratis 
ovato-lanceolatis productis. Hal. Stirp. Helo. n. 1614. Urtica 
dioica. Huds. Ang. p. 417. Lightf. Scot. p. 578. Withering 
Bot. Arr. p. 1071. Con. Flor. Dan. p. 746. Curt. Flor. Lond. 
Class Monoecia. Ord. Tetrandria, : Lin. Gen. Plaut. 1054. 
Ess Gen. Ch. Masc. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 0. Nectarium cen- 
trale, cyathiforme. 
Fem, Cal. 2-valvis. Cor.0. Sem. unicum, attain, 
Sp. Ch. U. foliis oppositis cordatis, racemis _geminis. 
THE root is perennial, creeping, yellowish, furrowed, tough, 
and supplied with joints, from which proceed many fibres: it sends 
up several stalks, which are erect, very little brahched, obtusely 
quadrangular, furrowed, purplish, beset with rigid hairs, and 
ly rise from two to four feet in height: the leaves are heart- 
staped, pointed, widely serrated, wrinkled, veined, covered with 
sharp stinging hairs, and stand oppositely upon slender footstalks: 
at the base of the leaf-stalks there are four stipule, which are 
narrow, spreading, and on the underside channelled: the flowers 
are dioicous, or male and female on different plants, growing in 
branched pendulous hairy racemi, or clusters of four together: 
the calyx of the male flower is cut into four small egg-shaped 
obtuse segments: there is no corolla: the nectarium is turbinated, 
almost transparent, blunt, perforated at the top, and placed in the 
