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forming whirls wherever the leaves are. Leaves ovate, stalked, 

 hairy, very deeply toothed. The whole plant of a very dis- 

 agreeable scent. 



HEMP-NETTLE. GALEOPSJS. 



COMMON HEMP-NETTLE. Galeopsis tetrahit. 



Plate 8, fig. 13. 



A very juicy, hairy plant, that varies much in size, from a 

 few inches to two feet in height, growing in dry ditches, and 

 the borders of corn-fields. The flowers are in whirls, many 

 together, pale purple, with a long pointed calyx. The stem 

 is swelled below each joint. Leaves ovate, deeply serrated, 

 tapering into footstalks. 



O. S. Red Hemp-nettle, Downy Hemp-nettle, and Large Flowered 

 Hemp-nettle. 



DEAD-NETTLE. LAMIUM. 

 WHITE DEAD-NETTLE. Lamium album. 



Plate 8, fig. 14. 

 Flowers white. Tube of the calyx shorter than the points. 



Abundant everywhere in the ditches and hedge-rows, known 

 at once by its white or cream-colored flowers, the tubes of 

 which are so loaded with honey that they are very sweet to 

 the taste, and a favorite resort of the bees, though the rough, 

 serrated leaves are distasteful to cattle. In flower from June 

 to September. 



RED DEAB-NETTLE. Lamium purpureum. 

 PlateS, fig. 15. 



Still more common than the last, and found in flower 

 throughout the year. Even in February and March to be seen 

 rearing its small, but beautifully pink and spotted flowers on 

 every bank, pathway, meadow, and hedge-row where it can 

 procure a gleam of sunshine, and enticing the bees at this 

 early season when flowers are scarce ; and there are few of 

 even a later season that yield them so sweet a banquet. Its 

 leaves are much crowded together on the top of the stem, and 



