Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
The feeds are black. 
It is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
Augutt. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Horminum fylvefire lavendule 
Sore. 
DIVISION I. 
Garden-Clary: 
Horminum bortenfe. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and hung with 
a few ftraggling fibres. The colour is brown, and 
the tafte warm, and not difagreeable. 
The leaves that rife from it are very large, of 
a whitifh green, and rough: they are broadeft at 
the bafe; whence they grow {maller to the end, 
where they terminate obtufely ; and they are 
flightly waved at the edges. . 
Theftalkis {quare, firm, upright, andayardhigh. 
The leaves ftand in pairs on its and they are 
large, rough, and of a greyith green: they are 
placed on footftalks ; and are broad, and a little 
waved at the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches in long, thick fpikes ; and they are very 
large, of a gaping figure, and of a pale blue co- 
Jour. The cups in which they ftand are gluti- 
nous to the touch. 
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; HEDGENETTLE,: 
GALEOPSIS, 
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Tt poffeffes the virtues of the garden-clary, but 
in an inferior degree ; for which reafon it is not - 
regarded in medicine. 
FORETGN SPE C1 E's? 
The feeds are fmooth, and of a dufky redifli 
brown, oblong, and of a glofly furface, 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and is found 
wild alfo in Apulia. Te fowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Horminum felarea ditum. 
Others, Horminum hortenfe,.and Horminun vil- 
gare fativum. 
This plant is cordial, incifive, and deobftruent, 
It is good againft flatulencies and indigeftions, 
as alfo in nervous complaints, headachs, and 
lownefs of fpirits, i : 
A conferve of the tops of this plant warms. 
the ftomach, and operates as a cordial. A dif- 
tilled water of it has alfo the fame effe&s but it 
muft be of the {pirituous kind, for it does not 
fully give its virtues to water. 
Tt has been a cuftom to add the leaves to wine 
in the making: they give it a cordial virtue, and 
not a difagreeable flavour. | 
1X, 
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HE flower is formed of a fingle petal ; which is tubular at the bottom, and divided in the la- 
biated manner at the mouth. 
The tube is fhort, and between the upper and under lip there 
is a kind of palate, terminated each way bya little crooked tooth. The upper lip is large, hookeds 
and undivided : the lower lip is fhort, broad, and heart-fafhioned, and it turns back. The cup 
is tubular, and at the top is terminated by five flender parts, refembling briftles, 
in number ; and they remain naked. 
The feeds are four 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia; the threads in the flower being four, 
two of which are longer than the others, and the ftyle fingle. ! 
This author creates confufion by his diftribution of thefe plants. He takes away'the name of 
galeopfis from this, making it a fpecies of ftachys; and he ufes the word galeopfis, antiently and 
diftinétly given to this plant, as the name of another genus, including the Lempnettles, and fome other 
kinds; of which we fhall {peak hereafter. 
DIVISION «IL 
Hedgenettle. 
1. Galeopfis legitima. 
The root is long, flender, and creeping : it is 
white, and fends out long fibres on every part, 
from which in feparate places rife. numerous 
plants. : 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, hairy, and of a 
brownifh green: it isa yard high, and is rarely 
much branched. : 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they ftand at 
diftances; and they have footftalks, which are 
green, and hairy. The leaves are very broad 
and fhort, heart-fafhioned at the ftalk, and pointed 
at the end: they are nicked a little at the edges, 
and their colour is a pale, greyifh green. ‘Their 
fubftance is rough, the veins are large, and they 
are hairy. 
The flowers ftand in loofe fpikes at the tops of 
the ftalk; and are large, and of a beautiful 
BER FD TS Sep s Re Es 
purple, agreeably diverfified with dots of white. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common in hedges and among bufhes, and 
flowers in June.and July. 
C.Bavhine calls it Lamium maximum fylvati. 
cum fatidum. Others, Galeopfis, and Galeopfis le 
gitima Diofcoridis. 
Tt is a deobftruent : its principal virtue is 
againft obftructions of the fpleen; and. the beft 
method of taking it is the juice freth preffed. 
2. Small Hedge-nettle: 
Galeopfis minor foliis angulatis. 
The root is long and thick : it is furnifhed with 
many fibres, and fends out many creeping parts, 
which run under the furfaces and fend up plants 
in various places, 
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