THE 



YELLOW DEAD-NETTLE 



AND THE 



STITCHWOET. 



Galeobdolon luteum. Nat. Ord., Labiatcc. 



Stellarla holostea. 

 Nat, Ord., Caryophyllacecc. 



HE yellow - flowered plant, the 

 most conspicuous feature in the 

 present illustration, is a near rela- 

 tive of the white and red dead- 

 nettles already figured. It is 

 called indiscriminately the yellow 

 dead-n ettle, the yellow blind-nettle, 

 or yellow archangel, while a less 

 common name is weasel-snout. 



A certain amount of difficulty 

 seems to have been felt in assign- 

 ing it its true place in a syste- 

 ., matic botanical arrangement, as by some 

 of the older writers it is classed as a 

 Galeopsis, while later writers call it either 

 Galeobdolon luteum, or else Lamiiim Galeob- 

 dolon. Galeopsis is compounded of two 

 Greek words signifying a weasel and appearance, i.e., 

 resemblance to a weasel, a portion of the flower being 

 supposed, by a considerable stretch of the imagination, 

 to resemble the nose of a weasel, whence, too, its vulgar 

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