70 ENGLISH BOTAXr. 



sometimes abortive. Nucules thrice as long as broad, thickly dotted 

 with white scales. 



Ill cultivated ground and waste places, especially on sandy and 

 chalky soil. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Stems usually several from the crown of the root, 3 inches to 1 foot 

 high, decumbent at the base, with branches in the axils of the leaves. 

 Leaves on long stalks, confined to the lower part of the stem, the 

 uppermost pair usually at a considerable distance from the lowest pair 

 of bracts; lamina i to IJ- inch long. Yerticillasters few, the lower 

 ones often separate'd from the others ; each pair of bracts bearing a 

 superficial resemblance to a pair of connate leaves, f to 2 inches from 

 point to point, the upper pair smaller. Calyx \ inch long. Corolla 

 purplish rose, about |^ inch long or more, but frequently imperfectly 

 developed, although such flowers produce fruit ; tube dilated only at 

 the tlivoat; upper lip entire, oblong, densely hairy externall}^; lower 

 lip with the lateral teeth extremely minute or absent. Nucules -^^ 

 inch long, olive, speckled with white scales. Plant green, thinly 

 pubescent throughout, with the stem subgiabrous. 



Henhit Dead-nettle. 



Freucli, Lamier emlrassant. German, Stengelumfassende Tauhiessel. 



SPECIES II.— LAM I UM INTERMEDIUM. Fries. 



Plate MLXXXII. 



Reich, Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVm. Tab. MCCIV. Fig. 1. 

 S. amplexicaule, var. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 246. 



Annual. Leaves stalked, deltoid-orbicular, cordate or subcordate 

 at the base, obtuse, Avith a few large rounded entire or notched 

 crenatures on each side. Verticillasters usually distant below, ap- 

 proximate above. Lowest pair of bracts generally distinctly stalked, 

 reniform-deltoid, cordate, obtuse or subobtuse, irregularly and coarsely 

 inciso-crenate, not contiguous at the basal margins; upjiermost 

 ones transversely-rhomboidal-reniform, those of each pair overlap- 

 ping each other at the margins and thus pseudo-connate. Calyx thinly 

 pubescent ; teeth longer than the tube, generally purple, triangular- 

 subulate, sparingly ciliated, slightly divergent even after flowering. 

 Corolla tube without an evident internal ring of hairs, rather slender, 

 straight, half as long again as the calyx- teeth. Nucules thrice as long 

 as broad, thickly dotted with white scales. 



In cultivated ground. Chiefly on sandy soil. Local. Rare in 

 England, from whence I have not seen specimens. Not uncommon in 



