162 TEUCRIUM. GALEOPSIS. 



432. Teucrium scorodonia. ?li33ootl ^age. Deans, and 

 heathy and stony places, very common. July, Aug. — The aromatic 

 scent of this plant proceeds from minute silver-like glands profusely 

 scattered over the inferior surface of the leaves. The withered flower- 

 stalks, with the long racemes of calyces, remain until the ensuing 

 summer. The herb is often given in infusion with medicinal inten- 

 tions ; and they who administer it mistake it for the Horehound. 



433. Ajuga reptans. ScatJman'iS JJfUolu:^, — a name which it 

 shares with Digitalis, Pedicularis sylvatica, and theBoleti. J. Hardy. 

 — Woods and moist meadows. In dry hilly situations, as on Lam- 

 berton moor, the plant becomes hairy. May, June. 



434. Ballota nigra. f^orf4jount( or f^atrijountJ. Waste 

 grounds. B. Common about Berwick, and also in the neighbour- 

 hood of several of our towns and old villages. — D. Norham and Corn- 

 hill. — R. Abundant about Roxburgh Castle : Point-walk, Kelso, &c. 

 Dr. F. Douglas. — We have two varieties, but in both the segments 

 of the calyx are broadly ovate with a mucronate point. The one 

 variety has ovate-acute rather small leaves, which often become more 

 or less coloured ; in the other variety the leaves are hoary, cordate 

 and rounded, and of a large size. The first is that which grows 

 about Berwick ; the second is found at Cornhill and Norham ; and 

 the peculiarities probably depend on the proximity or distance of the 

 station from the sea. — May 9, 1851. Saw an old man gathering the 

 Ballota. He called it the Horehound, and said that he mixed the 

 dried herb with his tea, believmg it to be a wholesome addition. 

 He expressed a firm belief in its anti-asthmatic virtue. 



435. Galeopsis tetrahit. ©ac or ©cuf^j^fttlt *. Corn- 

 fields, a common weed. Autumn. — The flowers are either reddish, 

 cream-coloured, or white, with a spot on the lower lip variegated 

 with purple and yellow ; but in the white variety I have been some- 

 times unable to discover any trace of the spot. — Labourers in harvest 

 are sometimes aifected with whitlows, and they ascribe the disease 

 invariably to the sting of a Deye-Nettle. It is probably the effect 

 of an unnoticed spram, for the prickles of the Galeopsis are not 

 "venomous." See Eng. Bot. iii. 207. Acting on their own theory, 

 our labourers apply a roasted onion, or a piece of cheese, to suck out 

 the " stang." When in flower the plant is much frequented by the 

 males of the common humble bee. 



436. G. VERSICOLOR. Corn-fields, a beautiful weed. It is 

 common in all the western parts of our district, growing most freely 



37. Galeopsis ladanum. — Growing prettj' abundantly in a field within a 

 few hundred yards of the Manse of Yetholm, Rev. J. Baird. It had not been 

 observed in this site previously, and it will again probably disappear. Mr. 

 Lees has some good remarks on this interesting subject in the Phytologist 

 for 1851, p. 131. , 



* Not Day-nettle, as usually written. The name is very old, and seems 

 to be derived from the belief of its injurious eflFect upon labourers employed 

 in agriculture. See Prompt. Parv. sub verb. Deye. 



