LABIATiE. 71 



Scotland. Rather rare in Ireland, and confined to the north of the 

 island. 



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



Stem 3 to 18 inches long, succulent, brittle, decumbent at the base, 

 the flowering portion always erect. Leaves resembling those of 

 L. amplexicaule, but generally larger. Lowest pair of bracts com- 

 monly stalked, sometimes with the stalk nearly as long as the lamina, 

 but generally much shorter. Upper verticillasters generally approxi- 

 mate, with the bracts rapidly decreasing in size towards the apex of the 

 stem ; the lower pairs much larger in proportion to the flowers than 

 is commonly the case in L. amplexicaule, often 3 inches across from 

 point to point. Calyx i inch long, much less densely and softly 

 pubescent than in the last-named species. CoroUa f inch long, paler 

 red, with the tube shorter, and the limb much larger in proportion 

 than in L. amplexicaule. Nucules ^ inch long, olive, S2Jrinkled with 

 white scales, the triangular space at the obliquely truncate apex larger 

 in proportion than in the preceding. Plant dull green, thinly pube- 

 scent, with the stem subglabrous. 



Intermediate Dead-nettle. 



German, Mittlere Tauhnessel. 



SPECIES m.—L A MIUM INCISUM. w:ud. 



Plate MLXXXHI. 



Reich, la. Fl. Germ, at Helv. Vol. XYIII. Tab. MCCIV. Fig. 1. 

 L. hybridum, Vill. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. XH. p. 680. 

 L. confertnin, Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 15. 



Annual. Leaves stalked, roundish-deltoid, subcordate, subcordate- 

 Bubobtuse, irregularly and deeply crenate. Verticillasters usually all 

 contiguous at tlie apex of the stem. Lowest pair of bracts distinctly 

 stalked, deltoid, subcordate; upper ones rhombic, generally wedge- 

 shaped at the base ; all acute, deeply inciso-crenate or cut into lobes, 

 which are again crenate, none of the pairs overlapping and pseudo- 

 connate. Calyx thinly pubescent ; teeth nearly as long as the 

 tube, generally green, triangular-subulate, sparingly ciliated, slightly 

 diverging even after flowering. Corolla tube without an evident 

 internal ring of hairs, rather slender, straight, rather shorter than 

 the calyx-teeth. Nucules scarcely twice as long as broad, thickly 

 dotted with white scales. 



In cultivated ground and waste places, by roadsides, and on hedge- 

 banks. Rather common, and generally distributed. 



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



