Lumium.'] DIDYNAMIA — GYMNOSPERMIA. 231 



Sandy corn-fields, rare. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, and 

 Bangor in Wales. Fl. July, Aug. Q.— Flowers large, pale yellow. 



3. G. Tetrdhit, L. {common Hemp-nettle); stem hispid swollen . 

 below the joints, leaves ovate hispid serrated, corolla with the 

 upper lip erect ovate entire. E. Bot. t. 207. 



Corn-fields and cultivated grounds, frequent. Fl. Aug. ©. 1 2 ft. 



high. Flowers purplish, or often white. 



4. G. versicolor, (^m'i.{large-Jlowered Hetnp-nettle); stem hispid 

 swollen below the joints, leaves ovate hispid serrated, corolla 

 with the upper lip horizontal inflated. E. Bot. t. 667. 



Corn-fields, Norfolk ; common about Warrington. Near Llanrwst. 

 Abundant in Scotland, especially in the Highlands. Ireland. Fl. July, 

 Aug. . — Quite different from the last, (though the distinguishing marks 

 are ditiicult to be described,) and very beautiful. Often 2 — 3 feet high, 

 with large rank foliage. Flowers showy, yellow, with a broad purple 

 spot on the lower lip. 



10. Lamium. Linn. Dead-nettle. 



1. L. album, L. {white Dead-nettle); leaves cordato-acuminate 

 deeply serrated, calycine teeth long subulate, tube of the corolla 

 curved upwards the throat dilated, upper lip oblong, lateral lobes 



of the lower one with a long subulate tooth L.vulgatum,Benth. 



— u. flowers white. L. album, E. Bot. t. 768. — (B. flowers purple, 



leaves spotless. L. Icevigatum, L Reich. Ic. Bot. t.2\Q L.rugo- 



sum, Ait. — Reich. I. c. t. 217. — L. maculatimi, Sm. E. Bot, t. 2550. 

 — 7. leaves smaller with white blotches. L. maculatum, L. Reich. 

 I. c. t. 215. 



Borders of fields and waste places, abundant. — /3. Naturalized near 

 Bristol, London and Fifeshire, in Scotland ; Dr Dewar. — y. Fifeshire, 

 Dr Dewar ; indigenous ? — Fl. spring and summer. If. — I have follow- 

 ed Mr Bentham in uniting the L. Icevigatuni and tnaculatum. of L., and 

 L. rugosum of Aiton with the album : — and indeed in Fifeshire and else- 

 where the white flowers of the latter are often tinged with red or purple, 

 and the plant seems to pass gradually into Icevigatum. 



2. L. purpureum, L. (red Dead-nettle); leaves roundish-cor- 

 date crenate uppermost crowded longer than the flowers, tube 

 of the corolla straight within having a hairy ring the throat 

 dilated, lateral lobes of the lower lip with a short tooth. E. 

 Bot. t. 1933. 



Borders of fields and in hedges, plentiful. Fl. May — Sept. 0. — 

 Leaves, especially the upper ones, with a silky hairiness, and a purplish 

 tinge on the floral ones. 



3. L. intermedium, Fries, {intermediate Dead-nettle); leaves 

 orbicular inciso-crenate the floral ones sessile, teeth of the calyx 

 subulate longer^than the tube, tube of the corolla straight with a 

 very indistinct hairy ring within (none, Benth.) lateral lobe of 

 the lower lip with a short tooth. Reich. Ic. Bot. t. 224, et t. 

 722. Tyachcin Trans, of Bot. Soc. Ed., 1837, p. 27. 



