BALLOTA 411 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, hedges, and borders of woods. Locally 



common in all the districts. P. April-June. 

 I^irst record. Yellow Archangel, Bagley wood by Oxford, W. Coles, 



Adam in Edefi, 1657. 



1. Isis. There is another Lamium which beares a yellow floure, it 



growes in Merley wood, MS. in Lyte's HerbcdJ, also in Sir Joseph 

 Banks' MSS. Wytham, BosweJl. Cumnor. Near Faringdon. 

 On the Eynsham Road, in the hedges. 



2. Ock. Bagley, W. Coles, I. c. White Horse Hill, Bolton King. 



Denchworth, Wait. Boar's Hill. Uffington. Tubney. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Moulsford. 



Unwell Wood. College Wood. Bennett's Wood. Ashampstead. 

 Yattendon. Aldworth. Bulham. Basildon. Tilehurst, &c. 



4. Kennet. Near Greenham, Weaver. Padworth. Aldermaston. 



Hampstead Marshall. Inkpen. Riever Wood. Bucklebury. 

 Theale. Mortimer. Snelsmore. 



5. Loddon. Park Place. Bowsey Hill. Remenham, Stanton. 



Swallowfield, Tufnail. Wellington College List. Ashley Hill. 

 Cookham. Wargrave. Bisham. Stubbing's Heath, &c. 

 When the upper bracts are so much developed as to become leaf-like, 

 it is Galeobdolon luteum, Reichb. 1. c. 



In some of our woods on the Chalk the barren creeping stems form 

 a considerable proportion of the undergi'owth. The leaves are often 

 variegated in a somewhat similar manner to those of L. maculatum. 

 L. Galeobdolon occurs in all the bordering counties. 



BALLOTA, Linn. Gen. n. 639 {Ballote, Tournefort, Inst. t. 85\ 



B. nigra, Linn. Sp. PI. 582 (1753). Black Ilorehoand, Stinking Hore- 

 hound. 

 B. foetida, Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 381 (1778). Marrubiiim nigra, Gerard, 566. 

 Top. Bot. 312. Syme, E. B. vii. 52, t. 1065. Nyman, 581. Fl. Oxf. 23. 

 Native. Viatical. Hedges, waste places, very common by footpaths and 

 by our dustiest roadsides, &c., throughout the county ; especially 

 abundant about some of the villages in the Pang, Kennet, and 

 Loddon disti'icts, and too frequent to need a list of localities. P. 

 June- Sept ember. 

 First record. B. 7iigra, Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809, 



It varies much as to its pubescence ; som.etimes it is nearly glabrous, 

 at others densely hairy. The /. alba occurs occasionally, as near 

 Reading, Pamplin : near East Ilsley, Abingdon, Waltham, &c. 



The calyx teeth also vary in their length and narrowness. A form 

 with these much narrower and more acuminate than the type occurred 

 near Loddon Bridge, but I do not consider it to be B. ruderalis ; see 

 Rep. Bot. Exch. Club, 1890. Many of the forms, which have a lanceolate 



