90 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Lamium. 



Galeopsis. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 62. f. 1. 



In waste gronndj the borders of fields, and by road sides, common. 



Perennial. May, June ; also September. 



Root creeping. Stems erect, 12 or 18 inches high, roughish with 

 short deflexed hairs. Leaves deep green, unspotted, strongly 

 serrated, stalked, veiny, hairy. Fl. large, white, rarely tinged 

 with a blush-colour, hairy J lip cream-coloured. Jnth. h\ac\i. 

 The herbage is scarcely eaten by cattle, and has a slightly fetid 

 scent. The flowers abound with honey. 



2. L. maculatum. Spotted Dead-nettle. 



Leaves heart-shaped, pointed, strongly serrated, hairy. 

 Flowers about ten in a whorl. Tube of the calyx curved, 

 as long as its teeth. Upper lip of the corolla notched; 

 lateral teeth solitary, bristle-shaped. 



L. maculatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 809. mild. v.3. 87. Coinp. ed. 4. 



102. Engl. Bot.v.36.t. 2550. Cyclop.n.5. Hook. Scot.\Q\. Ait. 



Hart. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3.393. Ehrh. PL Off. 426. Bauh. Pin. 231. 

 L. n. 270. Hall. Hist. V. 1.118. 

 L. purpureum foetidum, folio.parvo, acuminate, flore majore. Pluh. 



Almag. 204. Pfujt. t. \9S.f. ]. 

 Urtica mortua alia divaricata, et guttatim dispersa. Column. 



EcpLr. 191. 



On banks in warm situations, rare ; perhaps a naturalized plant. 



In a lane nearRedland Court, not far from Bristol. Mrs. Vaughan. 

 Once found at Bayswater, near London. In woods in Scot- 

 land, but rare. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. April. 



Habit like the preceding, from which however this species is truly 

 distinct. The leaves are marked, either with a white central 

 line, or with scattered white spots. Fl. crimson ; the lip beau- 

 tifully speckled ; their lateral teeth slender. Cal. very unlike 

 that of L. album ; the tube more slender and curved, as long as 

 the teeth, which are also recurved and narrow, mostly purplish. 

 Authors have greatly confounded the synonyms of this Lamium. 

 Haller took it for the Icevigatum, and Pallas, more iinaccount- 

 ably, for the purpureum, of Linnaeus. Rivinus did not distin- 

 guish it, as a species, from album. At^ to blunders in compiling, 

 quoting and copying, they are peculiarly numerous throughout 

 its whole history. The editor of J. Bauhin's Hist., v. 3. 322, has 

 actually given for this plant an old figure of the Almond, from 

 Dorstenius, p. 24. Ours is the plant of Haller and Rivinus, the 

 leaves being only slightly dotted. It scarcely seems specifically 

 distinct from that with a white line. 



