CVL 

 BALLOTA NIGRA, 



Black or Fetid Horehound. 



Class. XIV. Didynamia. — Order I. Gymnospermia. 



Nat. Ord. Labiate. 



Gen. Char. Calyx salver-shaped, equal, with ten ribs 

 and five broad mucronate teeth, naked within. Corolla 

 with the upper lip erect, concave ; lower lip trifid, mid- 

 dle lobe large, emarginate. 



Spec. Char. Leaves ovate, crenate-serrate ; teeth of the 

 calyx shortly acuminate, spreading, longer than the 

 tube of the corolla. 



SYNONYM ES. 



r Marrubium nigrum foetidum, Ballote Dioscor. Bauh. Pin. 230. 



Ballote. Rail. Syn. 245. 



Marrubium nigrum. Ger. Em. 711. 

 Latin 1 Ballota nigra. Lin. Sp. PI. 814. 



Mentha aquatica. Fl. Dan. 673. 

 ^Ballota fcetida. Be. Cand. Fl. Fr. 2576. 

 French .... Marrube noir ; Marrube fetide ; Ballote ; Marrubin, 



Italian Marrubio nero. 



Spanish . . . Marrubio bastardo. 

 Portuguese. Marroyo negro. 

 German . . . Schwarze Ballote. 



Dutch Zwarte Malrove ; Stinkende Andoorn. 



Danish Swoart Marrube. 



Stvedish... Swart Andorn. 

 Polish .... Szanta Czarna, 



