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quality. The Nettle is a formidable root-weed on the sides 

 of banks and ditches, in hedges, in uncultivated places in 

 general, and in pastures ; the roots spread very much, and 

 cannot be thoroughly extirpated without the rooting iron. 



14. Urtica Caudata. Leaves opposite, cordate ; racemes 

 ito pairs, quite simple, and very long ; which distinguishes it 

 from the preceding species, of which it is suspected to be 

 only a variety. Found in Tunis, Egypt, and Arabia. 



15. Urtica Membranacea ; Wing-stalked Nettle. Leaves 

 on long petioles ; male racemes filiform, membranaceous, 

 naked underneath ; females sessile ; stem branched. Native 

 of Barbary. 



16. Urtica Rugosa ; Rugged-leaved Nettle. Leaves oppo- 

 site, oblong, serrate, nerved, wrinkled ; racemelets terminat- 

 ing, dioecious; stem simple, erect. Root annual. The stem 

 a foot high, round, downy. Native of Hispaniola. 



17. Urtica Repens. Leaves opposite, oval, racemes mo- 

 noecious; stem simple, creeping. Native of Hispaniola. 



18. Urtica Cannabina; Hemp-leaved Nettle. Leaves op- 

 posite, three-parted, gashed. Root perennial ; sterns five 

 or six feet high; flowers axillary, in long cylindrical catkins: 

 males on the lower part, females on the upper. It flowers in 

 July, and the seeds ripen in autumn. Native of Siberia. It 

 is easily propagated, either by seeds or parting the roots; 

 and will thrive in most soils and situations. 



19. Urtica Gracilis ; Slender-stalked Nettle. Leaves op- 

 posite, ovate, lanceolate, almost naked ; stem and petioles 

 hispid ; racemes in pairs. Native of Hudson's Bay. 



20. Urtica Alienata. Leaves opposite, ovate, quite entire, 

 marked with lines. Stem shrubby, rugged, round, stiffish, 

 nearly upright ; branches opposite, horizontal, diffused ; 

 flowers axillary, sessile. Native of Ceylon. 



21. Urtica Nudicaulis ; Naked-stalked Nettle. Leaves 

 subterminating, opposite, oblong, acuminate, entire, three- 

 nerved ; stem angular, naked below, racemed ; flowers dioe- 

 cious. Native of Jamaica. 



22. Urtica Stolonifera; Trailing Nettle. Subcaulescenl : 

 leaves opposite, oblong, subserrate ; flowers dioecious ; run- 

 ners radical. Native of Hispaniola. 



23. Urtica Parietaria; Pellitory -leaved Nettle. Leaves op- 

 posite, lanceolate, quite entire, narrower on one side. Roots 

 numerous, long, thready ; stem herbaceous, suffrutescent at 

 bottom, from two to eight feet in height, branching very much 

 at the top, erect, angular, four-sided, striated ; flowers dioe- 

 cious, very small. Native of lofty mountains in the West 

 Indies, flowering all the year. 



24. Urtica Ciliata. Leaves opposite, ovate, ciliate, ser- 

 rate; flowers terminating, aggregate, subpeduncled, monoe- 

 cious ; stem divaricate. Native of Jamaica. 



25. Urtica Radicans; Parasitical Nettle. Leaves oppo- 

 site, cuneate, ovate, crenate, shining; flowers axillary, sub- 

 sessile; stem and branches trailing, with downy radicals. 

 Native of Jamaica, in umbrageous forests, where it trails over 

 the trunks of trees, to their summits, thriving plentifully 

 under their shades, also on the rotten trunks of fallen trees. 



26. Urtica Ciliaris. Leaves opposite, ovate, ciliate ; ra- 

 cemes divaricate. Native of South America. 



27. Urtica Nummularifolia. Leaves opposite, orbicular, 

 crenate, hirsute ; flowers terminating, clustered, monoecious ; 

 stem filiform, simple, creeping. Native of Jamaica. 



28. Urtica Depressa. Leaves opposite, roundish, crenate, 

 smooth; flowers terminating, clustered; stem creeping, sub- 

 divided. Native of Jamaica. 



29. Urtica Hermiarioides. Leaves opposite, roundish, 

 entire, terminating in fours; flowers monoecious, distinct; 

 stem filiform, diffused. Native of Hispaniola. 



30. Urtica Serrulata. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, serrate, 

 smooth ; peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 in little heads, monrecious ; stem frutescent, four-cornered. 

 Native of Jamaica. 



31. Urtica Lucida. Leaves opposite, semipinnate, shin- 

 ing; peduncles axillary, longer than the leaf; flowers in little 

 heads, stem frutescent, angular. Native of Jamaica. 



32. Urtica Microphylla. Leaves ovate, acute, quite entire, 

 with smaller ones ovate, opposite, and intermixed; flower dioe- 

 cious ; stems almost simple, ascending. Native of the West 

 Indies, in waste or watery places, or on old walls, &c. flower- 

 ing all the year. 



33. Urtica Trianthemoides. Leaves opposite, oblong, 

 quite entire, the alternate ones greater ; flowers monoecious ; 

 stem erect, branched. Native of Hispaniola. 



34. Urtica Cuneifolia. Leaves opposite, cuneate, obovate, 

 toothed at the top, the alternate ones larger; racemelets pe- 

 duncled; flowers monoecious. Native of Jamaica. 



35. Urtica Spicata. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, serrate, 

 smooth ; spikes capillary, interrupted ; stem round, purple, 

 smooth ; branches filiform, hispid at the base. Native of 

 Japan, near Nagasaki. 



36. Urtica Macrophylla. Leaves opposite, roundish, 

 doubly serrate; flowers panicled; stem four-cornered, groov- 

 ed, purplish; flowers axillary, panicled. Native of Japan. 



37. Urtica Rhombea. Leaves opposite, quite entire, sub- 

 rhombed, three-nerved ; stem herbaceous, a foot high, erect, 

 much branched, smooth, leafy; racemes branched, axillary, 

 length of the petals. Found in Mexico. 



38. Urtica Virgata. Leaves opposite, ovate, serrate, three- 

 nerved ; spikes axillary, solitary, interrupted. Native of the 

 Society Islands. 



39. Urtica Ferox. Leaves opposite, hastate, cordate, 

 bristly, serrate ; racemes in pairs, divaricate ; stipules cor- 

 date. Native of New Zealand. 



40. Urtica Chamsedroides. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 

 ovate, serrate; glomerules axillary, sessile, subglobose, reflex ; 

 stem stimulose; stings white, very conspicuous. Grows in 

 the islands of Georgia. 



** Alternate- leaved. 



41. Urtica Lappulacea; Bur-nettle. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate, scabrous; flowers terminating, subsessile, monoecious ; 

 seeds three-cornered ; stem diffuse. Native of Jamaica. 



42. Urtica Sessiliflora. Leaves alternate, lanceolate-ovate, 

 crenate; racemes very short, axillary; flowers monoecious, 

 distinct; stem distinct. Native of Jamaica. 



43. Urtica Elata. Leaves alternate, ovate, acute, serrate; 

 stem arboreous; branches almost naked, racemiferous; flowers 

 dioecious. Native of Jamaica. 



44. Urtica ..Estuans. Leaves alternate, cordate ; racemes 

 dichotornous; fruits orbicular, corymbed; stem simple, afoot 

 high, round, with unarmed prickles : a branch and peduncle 

 from each axil. Native of Surinam. 



45. Urtica Argentea. Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 entire, glaucous underneath ; spikes axillary, solitary, inter- 

 rupted. Native of the Society Islands. 



46. Urtica Ruderalis. Leaves alternate, cordate, ovate, 

 bluntly serrate; panicles axillary, divaricate, corymbedi 

 Native of the Society Isles. 



47. Urtica Heterophylla. Leaves ovate, entire, and three- 

 lobed, serrate, toothed ; stem upright, angular, naked ; ra- 

 ceme glomerate. Native of the East Indies. 



48. Urtica Capitata. Leaves alternate, cordate; glome 

 rules in spikes. Native of Canada. 



49. Urtica Divaricata. Leaves alternate, ovate ; racemes 

 compound, divaricate. Native of Virginia and Canada. 



