PLex.mon. 9. URTICE^. 18. Urtica. 253 



Urtica raceniifera major perennis, Raii Syn. 139, 1. 



Urlica urens, Ger.em. 706,2. 



Urtica major vulgaris, and Urtica media sylvestris, Park, 440. 



Urtica dioica, Lin. S. P. 1.''96. 



Common stinging-nettle. Great stinging-nettle. 



Banks and hedges ; perennial ; July and August. 



Root creeping ; herb dark green ; sie7n erect, 3 feet high ; 

 stipules ovate, erect; racemes many-flowered. — Stalk dressed 

 as hemp, for cordage, cloth, or paper ; young shoots eaten 

 in spring as a potherb; leaves recover paralytic limbs by 

 whipping; one pressed against the roof of the mouth will 

 stop a bleeding at the nose ; juice dyes wool green ; a de- 

 coction of the herb with salt used to coagulate milk. 



2. Urtica urens. Stingiiig nettle.. 



Leaves opposite, elliptical, 3 or 5-ribbed, acutely ser- 

 rated; racemes in pairs, nearly simple, shorter than the 

 petiole. 



Urtica minor, Raii Syn. 140, 2 ; Ger. em. 707, 3. 

 Urtica urens, Lin. S. P. 1396, 

 Small stinging-nettle. 



Fields and way-sides ; annual ; June to October. 

 iJoo^i fibrous ; AerZ* light green ; ^/ipw/e reflexed; raceme 

 androgynous. 



S. Urtica pilulifera. Pelleth earing nettle. 



Leaves opposite, ovate, broadly serrate ; fruitbearing 

 heads globose, peduncled, in pairs. 



Urtica pilulifera, Raii Sijn. 140,3; Lin. S. P. 1395. 

 Urtica Romana, Ger. em. 706, 1 ; Park. 440. 

 Roman nettle. 



Ruins by the sea-side; annual; June and July. 

 Root fibrous ; stem blueish ; leaves rarely rather heart- 

 shape. 



III. 19. PARIETARIA. Pliny. Pellitory-of-the^waU. 

 Flowers 2 hermaphrodite and 1 female in a 6 or 8-leaved 

 involucrum. — Herm. Perigonium 4-sepaled; stamens 4; 

 Jilaments at first incurved, afterwards spreading elastically ; 

 anthers double, opening elastically; ovary 1, above; stigma 

 penecilfiform ; utriculus crustaceous, shortly pedicelled, in 

 the persistent sepales ; seed 1, inverse; corculum straight; 

 cotyledons leaflike ; radicle above. — Fem. Like the herma- 

 phrodite, but without the stamens. — Herb rather rough, 

 juicy ; leaves alternate ; fi.owers glomerate, axillary. 



