THE SAGE FAMILY. 249 



14. Common Red Dead-nettle — {Lamium purpiireum.) 

 By waysides and on the borders of ploughed fields, a common weed 

 everywhere, commencing to bloom in February, and continuing, more 

 or less, till the close of summer. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 42 : E. B. xi. 769. 



15. Cut-leaved Dbad-nettle — [Ldmium incisum.) 

 In similar situations, tolerably common, but not universal. Plenti- 

 ful about Withington and Bowdon. Fl. May, June. Annual. 

 E. B. xxvii. 1933, 

 This can hardly be deemed anything more than a variety of the preceding. 



16. Hen BIT— (Zamewm amplexicaule.) 

 In cultivated ground, as a weed, not uncommon about Bowdon and 

 Ashton-upon-Mersey. Fl. May, June. Annual. 

 Curtis, i. 119; E. B. xi. 770. 

 The dead-nettles are remarkable for their hairy anthers, and the frequently 

 vivid colour of their pollen. In Lamium purpureuin and amplexicaule it is the 

 colour of red-lead or vermilion. 



17. Common Hemp-nettle — {Galeopsis Tetrahit.) 

 Borders of cornfields, and in other dry ploughed land, also in woods, 

 common. Fl. July — September. Annual. 



Curtis, iv. 624; E. B. iii. 207. 



18. Large Variegated Hemp-nettle— (G^a^e6/?«?s versicolor.) 

 In ploughed land, especially potatoe fields and cornfields. Abundant 

 about Carrington, and in the whole district between that and Wilm- 

 slow and Alderley. Mobberley, fine and plentiful. (Mr. Holland.) 

 Fl. July — October. Annual. 



Cmtis, ii. 402 ; E. B. x. 667 ; Baxter i. 75. 

 One of the most splendid of our native wild-flowers. 



19. Betony — {^Betdnica officinalis.) 

 Dry fields, and in rough bushy places, common. Fl. July — 

 September. 



Curtis, i. 178 ; E. B. xvi. 1142; Baxter, iii. 214. 



Betony is at once distinguished from all our other red-flowered Labiates by the 

 lowest whorl of flowers, forming the spike, being at a considerable distance below, 

 and with a pair of leaves underneath it. Occasionally found white. 



