68 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Herbs Avitli the leaves generally deeply lobed, lower ones nearly 

 round; the bracts narrower. Verticillasters many-flowered. Flowers 

 rather small, pink or white. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from Xt'wr, a lion, and oi/pti, a tail, from 

 lis supposed likeness. 



SPECIES I.—L E O N U E, U S CARDIAC A. Linn. 



Plate MLXXX. 



Eeich. Ic. al. Germ, et Hclv. Vol. XVni. Tab. MCCXXII. Fig. 2. and MCCXXXIII. 



Fig. 2. 

 BUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2516. 



Leaves stalked ; the lower ones roundish, palmately cleft. Bracts 

 3-cleft; the uppermost ones elliptical, generally with only a tooth on 

 each side. Corolla tube with an oblique ring of hairs within ; upper 

 lip flattish; lower one spreading, the middle lobe entire. Plant 

 puberulent or pubescent. 



In waste jilaces and hedge-banks. Rare, and doubtfully native. 

 Thinly spread over England. Rare in Scotland, where it can have no 

 claims to be considered native. In Ireland it has been recorded from 

 near Dublin and about Cork ; but the authors of the Cybele Hibernica 

 do not admit it as a native. 



England, [Scotland, Ireland]. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 2 to 5 feet high, stout, erect, branched above in large 

 examples. Leaves stalked, 2 to 4 inches long; the lower ones 

 broader than long ; the upper a little longer than broad ; the lower 

 ones more divided than the upper, which are cut into 3 segments, 

 but more or less laciniate or coarsely toothed. Bracts all stalked, 

 the lower ones resembling the upper leaves, the intermediate 

 ones 3-cleft or Avith a single lai-ge tooth on each side, the uppermost 

 nearly entire. Verticillasters all remote, very numerous, crowded. 

 Calyx \ inch long ; the teeth at length spreading, recurved, and strongly 

 spinous, rather shorter than the tube, which is subglabrous or slightly 

 pubescent. Corolla pale rose, scarcely ^V inch long, densely clothed 

 with long white woolly hairs, especially on the upper lij), which is 

 longer than broad, and scarcely vaulted. Nucules olive, trigonous, 

 smooth, slightly shining, truncate, and densely clothed with short 

 stiff white woolly hairs at the apex. Plant dull green, the leaves paler 

 below, pubescent, especially on the angles of the stem and under side 

 of the leaves, the hairs vai-ying much in length and abundance. 



Motherwort. 



Frencli, AQrijmnmc canh'iiqne. German, Gemeines Hvi-^gcspami, 



