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The White Horehound (Marrabium vulgare), has pale flowers 

 and white-tinged leaves. It is also used as a village medicine, 

 and grows in waste places. 



The Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), I have not been able 

 to find. It has a good deal of white wool about it ; its flowers 

 are purple, and its leaves lanceolate, some three-lobed and 

 some simple. The stems grow to the height of two feet in 

 hedges. It is not common. 



The Weasel-snout or Yellow Archangel (Galeobdolon luteum), 

 is a very old friend of mine. It abounds in a little wood 

 on the west side of Hewick Bridge, Ripon, and we used to I 

 / go there on holiday afternoons. It has lance-shaped, ser- \ 

 ' rated leaves, large, spotted, yellow flowers, and a square hairy V 

 stem. Little children call the clusters of buds nuts, and 

 play with JJiem as such. It is abundant, too, in Kent and / 

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 The common Hemp*Ts ertle is a familiar weed in corn fields, 

 with its rough leaves, three-branched stem, and cream-coloured 

 flowers. 



The Red Hemp Nettle (G-aleopsis ladanum), grows well 

 there also. It is likewise three-branched, and its pairs of 

 crimson flowers are prettily spotted with white ; the leaves are 

 narrower, and comparatively small, and the plant is of a much 

 slighter habit ; the stem is tinged with crimson. 



The Downy Hemp Kettle I have never found. It resembles 

 the common Hemp Kettle in its colour, and the Red Hemp 

 Kettle in its habit. 



The Large-flowered Hemp Kettle (Gr. versicolor), I found in 

 Cheshire. It is a good deal like the common species in its 

 manner of growth, but the flower is large, yellow, and with 

 purple blotches on the upper part of the lower lip. 

 <^The White Dead Kettle (Lamium album), is the most 

 showy member of its family. We call it White Archangel, 

 and forgive it for its resemblance to a Kettle in consideration 

 of its pretty white flowers. Its smell is disagreeable, but 



