XCIV. 



LAMIUM PURPUREUM. 



Purple Hedge-Nettle, or Dead-Nettie. 



Class XIV. DiDYxNAMiA. — Order I. Gymnospermia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulate, ten-ribbed, with five 

 nearly equal, aristate teeth. Corolla with the throat 

 inflated ; upper lij) erect, entire, vaulted ; lower lip 

 patent, two-lobed, with one or two small reflexed teeth 

 on each side at the base. 



Spec. Char. Leaves cordate, obtuse, crenate-serrate, 

 stalked, the uppermost crowded. Corolla closed inter- 

 nally near the base with hairs. 



SYNONYMES. 

 f Lamium purpureum fcetidum, folio siibrotundo sive Galeopsis 

 Dioscoridis. Bauh. Pin, 230. 

 Lamium rubrura. Ger. Em. 703. Raii Syn. 240, 

 Urtica iners altera. Dod. 153. 



Lamium purpureum. Lin. Sp. PL 809. Eng. PL iii. p. 91. 

 L Eng. Bot. t. 1933. 

 French, .■,, Lamier pourpree ; Ortie morte puante. 

 Italian .... Ortica morta. 

 Spanish. . . . Ortiga muerta. 

 German . . . Purpura Todtennessel. 



Dutch Stinkende Doove Netelen. 



Danish ... . Dceduelde. 

 Swedish .... Blind nesla. 

 Polish .... Pokozywa martwa. 

 Persian .... Kargasina. 



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Description. — The root is annual, slender, and fibrous. The 

 stems are curved at the base and branched, then erect, naked, 

 but thickly clothed with leaves at the summit, quadrangular, 

 nearly smooth, and from six to nine inches in height. The 

 leaves are cordate, obtuse, crenate-serrate, stalked, clothed 

 with silky hairs, the uppermost with a purplish tinge. The 



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