66 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



In cultivated fields, principally on sandy ground. Common in the 

 north of England and south of Scotland, but becoming rare towards 

 the extreme north and south of the kingdom. Local in Ireland, and 

 most frequent in the north of that island. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, rather stout, more or less thickly 

 clothed with long bristly hairs, which are slightly bent downwards, 

 much branched in large specimens. Leaves with the stalk shorter 

 than ihe lamina, which is 1 to 3 inches long, hispid on both sides, 

 especially on the veins beneath. Calyx ^ inch long, sparingly hispid, 

 with numerous ribs, and a strong border connecting the teeth, which 

 are triangular, gradually acuminated into long subulate points, 

 consisting mainly of the spinous-pointed midrib. Corolla about 1^^ 

 inch long, yellow, speckled with purple at the base of the lower lip; 

 the middle lobe with a large purple blotch occupying nearly the whole 

 disk, surrounded by a pale margin ; tube gradually enlarged upwards, 

 hairy externally ; upper lip usually acuminated and bifid at the apex ; 

 lower lip with 2 rather large protuberances at the base ; middle lobe 

 flat, creuulated, generally notched. Nucules l inch long, obulate, 

 compressed, olive-brown, speckled with patches of whitish scales; 

 slightly convex on the back, strongly so on the inner face, where there 

 is a broad shallow fovea on each side of the middle line towards the 

 base; the top marked with veins, diverging from the middle line just 

 above the fovea. Plant rather pale green. 



Large-Flowered Hemp-nettle. 



German, Banter Daun. 



? Sub-Species II.— Galeopsis eu-Tetrahit. 



Plates MLXXVIII. MLXXIX. 

 G. Tetrahit, Auct. plur. 



Calyx-teeth usually a little longer than the tube. Corolla tube 

 slightly exceedmg the calyx-teeth ; upper lip nearly flat, longer than 

 broad, entire or crenated ; lower lip with the middle lobe quadrate, 

 notched or nearly entire. Nucules slightly convex on the inner face 

 towards the apex. 



■ Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MLXXVIII. 



Bekh. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCXXXI. Fig. 1. (?) 



G. Tetrahit, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 651. Eeich. fil. 1. c. p. 17. (?) 



Corolla twice as long as the calyx-teeth ; lower lip nearly entire, 

 flat. 



