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times a few glands, upper lip of the corolla sliglitly notched. 

 E. B. t. 884. 



Gravelly or chalky fields, or on limestone rubbish. Rare in Scotland ; 

 near Dunfermline. 0. 1— 10.— Stem iO— 12 inches high, with 

 opposite branches. Leaves rather small, petiolate, hairy. Flowers 

 purplish rose-coloured. Hairs on the calyx in the common fonu 

 appressed, with a few o;lands : when the hairs are spreading without 

 glands, the plant becomes the G. canescens Sch. /which has been ob- 

 served at Southampton. 



2. (x. ochroleitca Lam. {doiony HJ) ; stem softly pubescent 

 with deflexed hairs not swollen hdow the joints, leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate serrate, soft and downy on both sides, calyx gland- 

 ular hairy, upper lip of the corolla deeply notched. G. villosa 

 Huds.: E.B. t. 2353. 



Sandy corn-fields, rare, 

 shire ; Berechurch, Essex, 

 large, pale yellow. The name given by Lamarck has unquestionably 

 the priority by twelve years of that by Hudson. 



3. G, Tetrdhit L. {common H.); stem hispid swollen below 

 the joints, leaves oblong-ovate acuminate hispid serrate, calyx- 

 teetli twice as long as the tvibe, corolla with the tube as long as 

 the calyx, upper lip erect ovate. JE, B. t. 207. 



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Yorkshire ; Lancashire ; Nottingham- 

 I5an2;or, Wales. 0. 7, 8. — Flowers 



Corn-fields and cultivated grounds, frequent. ©. 7 — 9. — Stem 



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2 ft. high. 



Flowers purplish, often white. 



4. G. versicolor Curt. 



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stem hispid 



swollen below the joints, leaves oblong ovate acuminate hispid 

 serrate, calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, corolla with the 

 tube much longer than the calyx, upper lip horizontal inflated. 



B.B. t 667. 



Corn-fields, Norfolk ; common about Warrington. Near Llanrwst, 

 N. Wales. Abundant in Scotland, especially in the Highlands. Ire- 

 land. 0. 7, 8. — Often 2 — 3 feet high, with large rank foliage. 

 Flowers showy, yellow, with a broad purple spot on the lower hp. 

 Mr. Bentham unites it to the last. 



11. Galeobdolon Huds. Weasel-snout. 



CaL campanulate, 5-rlbbed, nearly equal, 5-toothed. Upper 

 lip 0^ \\\Q c(;r. incurved, arched, entire; lower one smaller, in 

 r3 nearly equal lobes. The two anterior stamens the longest : 

 anther 'Q^W'A diverging, opening longitudinally. Achenes acutely 

 triquetrous, flatly truncate at the end. — Named from ya\tr]y a 

 weasel^ and jScoXoc^ a fetid scei^f^ — formerly considered synony- 

 mous with Galeopsis, from which genus it is now removed. 

 (Mr. Bentham unites it to Lamium.) 



1. G. luteum Huds. {yellow TF., or Archangel) ; lateral lobes 

 of the lower lip of the corolla oblong acute. JS. B. t. 787. 



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