70 ENGLISH BOTANY-. 



sometimes abortive. Nucules thrice as long as broad, thickly clotted 

 with white scales. 



In cultivated ground and waste places, especially on sandy and 

 chalky soil. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Stems usually several fi-om the crown of the root, 3 inches to 1 foot 

 high, decumbent at the base, with branches in the axils of the leaves. 

 Leaves on long stalks, confined to the lower part of the stem, the 

 uppermost pair usually at a considerable distance from the lowest pair 

 of bracts ; lamina ^ to 1^ inch long. Yerticillasters i'aw, the lower 

 ones often separated from the others; each pair of bracts bearing a 

 superficial resemblance to a pair of comiate leaves, f to 2 inches from 

 point to point, the upper pair smaller. Calyx \ inch long. Coi'olla 

 purplish rose, about ^ inch long or more, but frequently imperfectly 

 developed, although such flowers produce fruit ; tube dilated only at 

 the throat; upper lip entire, oblong, densely hairy externally; lower 

 lip with the lateral teeth extremely minute or absent. Nucules -jL 

 inch long, olive, speckled with white scales. Plant green, thinly 

 pubescent throughout, with the stem subglabrous. 



Uenbit Dead-nettle. 



Frencli, Lamicr emhrassant. German, Stcngelumfassende Taiibnessel. 



SPECIES n.-L AMI UM INTERMEDIUM. Fries. 



Plate MLXXXII. 



Eeich, Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV 111. Tab. MCCIV. Fig. 1. 

 S. amplexicaule, var. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 246. 



Annual. Leaves stalked, deltoid-orbicular, cordate or subcordate 

 at the base, obtuse, with a few large rounded entire or notched 

 crenatures on each side. Yerticillasters usually distant below, ap- 

 proximate above. Lowest pair of bracts generally distinctly stalked, 

 reniform-deltoid, coi'date, obtuse or subobtuse, irregularly and coarsely 

 inciso-crenate, not contiguous at the basal margins; uppermost 

 ones transversely-rhomboidal-reniform, those of each pan* overlap- 

 ping each other at the margins and thus pseudo-connate. Calyx thinly 

 pubescent ; teeth longer than the tube, generally purple, triangular- 

 subulate, sjJaringly cUiated, slightly divergent even after flowering. 

 Corolla tube without an evident internal ring of hairs, rather slender, 

 straight, half as long again as the calyx- teeth. Nucules thiice as long 

 as broad, tliickly dotted with white scales. 



In cultivated ground. Chiefly on sandy soil. Local. Rai'e in 

 England, from whence I have not seen specimens. Not micommon in 



