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in such a position that they touch that part of the bee's head that will 

 in the next flower touch the stigma and not the eyes. The bee touches 

 the stigma first, then the anthers, and so pollinates the stigma with 

 pollen from a previous flower. 



The White Dead Nettle is visited by Bombus, honey bees, Antlw- 

 p/iora, Eucera, Melecta, Halictus, Diptera, Rhingia rostrata, being 

 specially adapted to humble-bees. The nutlets fall free around the 

 parent plant when ripe. 



White Dead Nettle is a clay-loving plant and addicted to a clay 

 soil, but is equally a sand plant and grows on sand soil, being common 

 on Triassic, Liassic, and Boulder Clay rock soils. 



It is a food plant for several beetles, Meligethcs difficilis, M. kunzei, 

 M. brunnicornis, M. pedicularius, and the Lepidoptera, Golden Y- 

 Moth (Plusia iota], Speckled Yellow ( Venilia maculatd], and the Small 

 Rivulet {Lygris alchemillata}, and the Burnished Brass Moth. 



The second Latin name refers to the white colour of the flowers. 

 Other names for this plant are: Archangel, White Archangel, Bee- 

 nettle, Blind Nettle, Day Nettle, Dead Nettle, White Dead Nettle, 

 Deaf Nettle, Dee Nettle, Dumb Nettle, Dummy Nettle, Dunny Nettle, 

 Nettle, White Nettle, Snake Flower, Stingy Nettle, Suck-bottle, Suckie 

 Sue. In Italy the plant is assigned to St. Vincent. 



The leaves have been eaten in Sweden as a pot-herb. The smell 

 is disagreeable when bruised. Boys make whistles of the stalks. It 

 has been used in internal, lung disorders, the leaves being bruised for 

 tumours and scrofula. It has also been used as a tea or herbal drink. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



259. Lamium album, L. Stem erect, stout, leaves cordate, serrate, 

 stalked, flowers large, white, with an oblique ring of hairs in the 

 curved corolla-tube, upper lip arched. 



All-good (Goosefoot) (Chenopodium album, L.) 



This common waste-land species is another Arctic species not 

 found in early deposits. It is found to-day in Arctic Europe and 

 Temperate Asia, and is introduced in North America. It is found 

 in every district in Great Britain as far north as the Shetlands, up 

 to 1000 ft. in Yorkshire, and is found in the Channel Islands, ami 

 in Ireland. 



All the Goosefoots except the maritime species are found on culti- 

 vated ground, and to this All-good is no exception. It is common in 

 gardens, allotments, on building ground, manure heaps, and in culti- 



