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referring similarly to its supply of honey.) — FI. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



12. Marrubium (White Horehound). — Woolly, herbaceous 

 plants with small flowers in whorls in the axils of leafy brads ; 

 calyx tubular, 5 — lo-ribbed, with 5 — 10 somewhat prickly teeth, 

 and a hairy throat ; corolla with tube longer than the calyx, 

 unequally 2-lipped ; upper lip straight, very narrow, deeply 2-cleft, 

 lower 3-lobed, the middle lobe the largest ; anthers included. 

 (Name, the Classical Latin name.) 



MELfxTIS MELISSOPHYLLUM {IVtld Balm). 



I. M.vulgdre (White Horehound). — The only British species, 

 well distinguished by its bushy stem, i — 2 feet high, covered with 

 white woolly down, by its wrinkled, ovate, crenate leaves, and its 

 dense whorls of small white flowers, of which the calyx-teeth are 

 sharp and hooked. — Waste ground; not uncommon. — The whole 

 plant is aromatic and bitter, and is a common remedy for coughs. 

 — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



13. Stachys (Woundwort). — Herbs or shrubs with their flowers 

 usually in terminal spikes; calyx sub-campanulate, 5 — lo-ribbed, 



