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C. 

 Flowers in axillai-y whorls. 

 Corollas small, very numerous, white. 



Plant thickly covered with white cottony hairs ; 

 leaves nearly circular, much wrinkled, and 



stalked. Stamens four 27. White Horehound. 



Plant nearly glabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 neai-ly sessile, serrate, sometimes pinnatifid 



at the base. Stamens two 1. Gipsy-woet. 



Corollas large, hairy, an inch long, conspicuous. 

 Leaves heart-shaped, serrate, pointed, and 

 stalked. 



Flowers white ; anthers black. (Fig. 150) 13. White Dead-nettle, 



Flowers full rich yellow; lower lip with orange- 

 brown streaks like a tiger's skin 12. YellowDead-nettle. 



Section 2. 



Flowers red, pink, lilac, purple, or blue ; sometimes a little mottled and 



freckled with ivhite. 



A. 



Whorls of flowers all, or nearly all, collected at the upper part of the stem, 



above the principal foliage of the plant. 



* Leaves round or heart-shaped. 



Stem rough with reflexed and sharp bristles, and\ 



swollen beneath the joints; calyx prickly ;[ I'''- <^'o™ion Hemp- 



flowers small, dull red i nettle. 



Stem glabrous, or clothed with soft hairs. 

 Leaves all sessile, broadly ovate or circular ; spike 



oblong; flowers nearly regular, pink 2. Kound-leaved Mint. 



Lower leaves, or all, on long stalks. 



Upper leaves crowded, with flowers intemiingled, 

 into a terminal and pyramidal head. Leaves 

 triangular, pointed, sen-ated, downy. Corolla 

 purplish-red. 

 Leaves moderately serrate 14. Common Red Dead- 

 nettle. 

 Leaves deeply and coarsely serrate 15. Cut leaved Dead- 

 nettle. 

 Upper leaves not crowded as above. 

 Whorls collected into dense round heads. Leaves 

 with short stalks. 

 Long linear bracts interspersed among the 



flowers ; calyx thirteen-ribbed 8. Hedge Calashnt. 



No bracts ; corolla nearly regular 4. Hairy Water-mint. 



WThorls collected into long, pyramidal spikes. 

 Leaves wdth long stalks. Stem two to 

 three feet high. Plant fostid. (Fig. 147) 21. Hedge Wound-wort. 



