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8. Hedge Calaminx — {Clinopddium vulgare.) 

 Dry hedgebanks, very rare, being a plant loving limestone. Cheadle, 

 Baguley, and about Congleton. Fl. July, August. 

 E. B. XX. 1401 ; Baxter, v. 34C. 



9. Common Germander — {Teucrium Scorodonia.) 

 Dry bedgebanks, and in heatby and stony places, in profusion every- 

 where. Fl. July — September. 



Curtis, ii. 332 ; E. B. xxii. 1543 ; Baxter, i. 22. 



An elegant and conspicuous plant of the autumn. The withered stems, with 

 their little hrown calyces, remain till the following spring. From tlie resemblance 

 of the leaves to tliose of the Salvia officinalis, it has acquired the popular but 

 erroneous name of " wood-sage." 



10. Common 'BuQL^~{Ajuga reptans.) 

 Moist meadows ; on slopes towards water or marshy places ; by shady 

 waysides ; and by paths in woods and groves, beneath the shelter of 

 trees, common everywhere. Fl. May, June. 



Curtis, i. 116; E. B. vii. 481) ; Baxter, ii. 94. 

 The blossoms occasionally yzxy to white, and I have found it with the blue of 

 the flowers and stalks exchanged for light red. 



II. Black. Hokehound — {Ballota nigra.) 

 Dry hedgebanks. Bowdon, but rather uncommon ; Barton (J. E.) ; 

 Stand and Pilkingtou. (J. P.) Fl. July, August. 

 E. B. i. 46; Baxter, ii. 86. 

 Like most of the other red-flowered Labiates, it is sometimes found with the 

 corollas white. 



12. Yellow Dead-nettle — (^Galeubdolon liUeum.) 



Woods and thickets, common. Cotterill; Ashley; banks of the 



Irwell, near Clifton ; and in the highest luxuriance and most delightful 



golden profusion in the Hen-pen Woods, Worsley ; in the woods at 



Styal, and in some parts of the Reddish Valley. Fl. May, Jime. 



Curtis, ii. 200 (as GaUCbdolon Galeopsis) ; E. B. xi. 787 ; Baxter, iii. l'J4. 



13. White Dead-nettle — (Ldmtum album.) 

 Hedgebanks, rare. Strctford, Ashley, Lymm, Warburton, Mob- 

 berley, but in every place sparingly. In the lane leading from Dids- 

 buiy to the path on the banks of the Mersey. Tyldesley (J. E.); 

 Bramhall (Mr. Isaac Williamson) ; Wcastc Lane, and by the side of 

 the high road at Eccles. (J. S.) Fl. April, May. 



Curtis, i. 118 ; E. B. xi. 70H ; Baxter, i. 31. 

 Ik-murkable for its black anthers. 



