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Th BRITISH HERBAL, 
"The ftalk is fquare, upright, branched, and a 
foot and half high. : 4 
The leaves ftand in pairs 6n fhort footftalks$ 
and they are Jarge and rough, of an angulated 
form, and pale green colour. 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
bright purple. 
DIVISION IL 
‘Eledgenettle with variegated flowers. 
Galeopfis flore magno luteo yariegato. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres. cae 
The ftalk is firm, upright, thick at the joints, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have flender 
footftalks: they are oblong and broad, largeft 
toward the middle, fmall at the bafe, and ferra- 
ted at the edges. Their colour is a pale greens 
and they are highly ribbed. 
The flowers are very large; and they ftand in 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
Jt is not uncommon in woods in our northern ; 
‘counties. It fowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Lemium fylvaticum [picatum 
futidum folio angulofo minus. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
tufts round the tops of the branches; and on thé 
fummits of them: they are yellow, but variega- 
ted on the lip with purple. 
This however i¥ an uncettain mark of the plant; 
for they are fometimes of a pale yellow through- 
out, and fometimes white. 
“The feeds are {mall and brown. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
Plukenet calls it Lanium cannabium aculeatum 
flore fpeciofo luteo labiis purpureis. 
GR Sake US 
C™AUT, Ma nN T. 
X. 
NEPETA. 
mur flower is formed of a fingle petal: it is tubular at the bottom, and crooked ; and it gapes at - 
the mouth, and confifts there of two lips, and a palate. The upper lip is fhort, obtufe, and 
nipped at the top: the lower lip is undivided, andi is larger than the other, and ferrated. The 
palate is of a heart-like fhape, and terminates in two little jaggs. The cup is tubular, and divided 
jnto five fegments at the edge; the upper ones of which are longer than the others, and the lower 
ones fpread, The feeds are four after every flower ; and’ they fland nakedin the cup. 
Linnzeus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia, the flower having two longer and two: 
fhorter filaments, and the feeds being naked in the cup, without any capfule, 
DyEW. & Sl OcNe 71. 
Gatmint. 
Nepeta. vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous and fpreading. 
The ftalks are fquare, firm, upright, branched, 
and two foot and a half high: they are of a 
whitifh colour, and fomewhat dufky. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and. have fhort foot- 
their colour is a whitifh green, ‘and they have a 
very ftrong fmell. 
The flowers grow in great clufters at the tops 
DIVISION I. 
Leffler Catmint. 
Nepeta minor. 
The root is long, thick, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, upright, very 
much branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have fcarce 
any footftalks: they are oblong and narrow, || 
fharp-pointed, ferrated at the edges, and of a 
pale green. 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
of the ftalks, forming a kind of {pike: they are 
fmall and white; but they have a few dots of 
purple within. 
The feeds are fmall and! dufky. 
“It is common by way-fides in dry places, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Mentha cattaria vulgaris 
| major. Others, Nepeta vulgaris. 
ftalks: they are oblong and large, broad at the } 
bafe, where they are fomewhat indented, ferrated } 
fharply at the edges, and pointed at the end: } 
It is a very powerful deobftruent. An infu- 
fion of it is excellent in ftoppages of the menfes ; 
and it is good alfo in nervous cafes. The tops 
beat into.a conferve are good againft that trouble- 
fome and obftinate diforder called the nightmare. 
FOR BIGGIN SPEC 15.8. 
The flowers ftand, in-a kind: of irregular fpikes 
atthe tops of the ftalks: and branches; and are 
numerous, {mall, and: white, with: a faint: tinge 
of. purples 
The feeds are brown. beans 
It is common in-the warmer parts: of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls-it Mentha cattaria minor. 
3 “GENUS 
