The BRITISH HERBAL, 
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DEADNETTLE 
LAMIUM, 
HE flowet is labiated, arid is forméd of a fingle petal. The tubular part at the bale ts very 
fhort : the openirig of the mouth is wide, and is formed into two lips and a palate. The bss 
per lip is of an arched form, and undivided, and turns in a kind of arch: the lower iip is ftorees 
and nipped at che end; and it turns back. The palate is inflated, compreffed, ahd terminated cacti 
way by a little jagg. The cup is tubular, and ic is terminatéd by five briftlés. The feeds are fout 
after every flower; and they are naked in the cup. 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia ; the flower having two threadg longef 
than the other two, and feeds remaining’naked in the tup without any capfule of particular covering. 
DIVISION I 
i. White Deadnettle. 
1. Lamium album vulgare. 
The root is fibrous and creeping. 
The flalk is fquare, hollow, upright, not 
branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are 
of a fine bright green: they are oblong, broad, 
fharp-pointed, and fharply ferrated. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves 5 
and they are large and white, a little hairy, and 
diftinguifhed very prettily by the black edges of 
the buttons on the filaments, which in fome man- 
ner mark the arithmetical figure 8. 
The feeds are four after every flower ; and they 
are blackith. The whole plant has a fingulars 
but not difagreeable fmell. 
It is common under hedges, and in all culti- 
vated ground. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lamium album non fatens 
folio oblongo. . Others only Lamium album, Our 
common people call it Deadnetile, and Arch- 
angel. 
The whole herb is fubaftringent. The foots, 
dried.and powdered, are good in fluxes 5 but the 
principal virtue is in the flowers: thefe are at 
once fubaftringent and balfamick. A conferve 
made of them with fugar is excellent againft the 
fiuor albus. It is a family-medicine, but very 
well deferves to be received in the fhops. I have 
known great cures performed in this troublefome 
and obftinate complaint by this conferve, and a 
decoétion of comfry root. 
2. Red Deadnettle. 
Lamium vulgare rubrum. 
The root is a little tuft of fibres. 
The: firft leaves are fmall, roundifh, and in- 
dented : they ftand on flender redifh footftalks ; 
and are of a dufky green. ; 
The ftalks are {quare and hollow: they are a 
foot long, but they do not ftand upright : they 
lean and trail in the lower part upon the ground : 
they have ufually a few leaves about the bottom, 
Tike thofe from the root ;- and about two pairs of 
‘others, placed at diftances, one pair near the 
bottom, the other near the top. At the fum- 
mit there are two or three other pairs, among 
which rife the flowers. 
Thefe aré fmall and red. 
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BRITISH SPECIES. 
The feeds are brown: 
It is common about gardens, and wherevet 
ground has been dug. It fldwers from April to. 
Oétober. TS 
C; Bauhine calls it Lamium purpureum faetidunt 
folio fubrotundo: Others only Lawiium rubrum. 
3. Red Deadnettle with divided leaves. 
. Lamium rubrum folits diffectis. 
The root is fibrotis arid brown. > 
The firft leaves are placed on flender foots’ 
ftalks ; and they are broad, fhort, and deeply diz 
vided by about five irregular indentings. 
The ftalk is of a pale green, and not very firm; 
ten inches high, and hollow. 
. The leaves are placed in paits on fhort foot= 
ftalks ; and they ate broad, fhort, and deeply dis 
vided. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leavess . 
and they are fmall’ and red. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is not uncorhmon on plowed land, and it 
flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Lamium rubrum minus foliis prox 
funde incifis. 
4, Great Henbit: 
_Lamium folio caulem ambienté. 
The root is fmall and fibrous.» 
The firft leaves are fupported on flender foot- 
ftalks ; and they are broad, fhort, and waved at 
the edges: frequently alfo there rife a kind of 
fuckers from the root, each fupporting fix or 
eight of thefe leaves. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare; hollows and 
about five inches in length :. they are not much 
branched, and they trail upon the ground. ‘ 
The leaves on thefe are unlike thofe.from the 
root: two naturally grow at a joint; but they 
unite, and form a kind of fingle roundifh leaf; 
through which the ftalk runs in a perfoliate 
manner, : i 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale red: they 
ftand in the bofoms of the leaves. ; 
The feeds are oblong and brown: 
It is common on ground that has been plowed 
or dug. It flowers in July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Lamium folio caulem ambiente: 
Authors fpeak of a leffer {pecies ; but it is only, 
a variety. 
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