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5. Yellow Deadnettle. 
Lamium flore flavo. ~ 
~ This is a plant of regular growth, and of great 
beauty. 
The root creeps under the furface, and has 
many long, thick fibres. . 
“The ftalks are {quare, light, hollow, and a 
foot or more in height; they feldom grow per- 
fectly ereét, but trail or ftoop a little. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and are oblong, 
moderately broad, elegantly ferrated, and of a 
fine green. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful yel- 
low: they rife in confiderable number in the bo- 
foms of the leaves. 
The feeds-are oblong and brown. 
Tt is frequent in the dry ditches which furround 
woods, and elfewhere among bufhes, It flowers 
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__ C. Bauhine calls ic Lamium folio oblongo luteum. 
Others, Lamium flavo flore. 
6. Hemp-Deadnettle. 
Urtica foliis anguftis ferratis. 
The root is creeping and fibrous. 
The ftalk is fquare, hollow, light, and a foot 
or more in length. Its colour is brown; and it 
is covered wich a kind of briftles. 
The leaves ftand two at a joint; and they 
’ have flender footftalks: they are oblong, nar- 
row, fharp-pointed, and fharply ferrated; and 
they have on the under fide very large ribs: they 
have been fuppofed from this and from their 
colour, which is a dufky green, to refemble the 
fingle leaves of hemp. 
_ The flowers are large and gaping: they’are 
of a bright red; and they are placed in tubular 
cups, terminated by a kind of prickles: they 
ftand in tufts at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches. 
_ The feeds are large and blackith. 
It is common about corn-fields, and on ground 
that has beendug. It flowers in July. 
C. Baubine calls it Urtica aculeata foliis ferratis, 
Others, Cannabis [puria. 
7. Narrow-leaved Yellow Deadnettle. 
Lamium luteum foliis anguftioribus ferratis. 
The root is creeping, white, and hung with 
many fibres. 
DIVISION WL 
Indian Deadnettle. 
 Lamium foliis diffettis orientale. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, 
“brown fibres; very tough, and of a difagreeable 
fmell, ° ‘ 
\ ~The ftalk is upright, {quare, and of a brownith 
colour, 
_ The leaves are placed in pairs at diftances ; | 
‘and they are very beautiful. Their colour is a. 
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The ftalks are flender, fquare, and about a 
foot high: they are rarely branched; and their 
colour is a dark green or brown. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have flen- 
der footftalks : they are long, and very narrow, 
deeply ferrated, and of a faint green. 
. The flowers grow all the way: up in.the bofoms 
of the leaves ; and they are large, and of a pale 
yellow. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
We have it in woods in Suffex. 
September. 
Ray calls it Leminm luteum foliis anguftifimis. 
Tt flowers in 
8. Great-flowered Hemp-Deadnettle. 
Lamium cannabino folio flore magno, 
The root is long and flender, and has many 
fibres. 
The ftalk.is weak, fquare, branched, and two 
feet in length. ; 
The leaves are broad and oblong: they are 
deeply jagged, fharp-pointed, and of a very 
bright green. 
The flowers ftand aboue the tops of the 
branches in clufters growing in the bofoms of the 
leaves: they are very large, and of a {nowy 
white. 
The feeds are large and blackith. 
We have it about the edges of forefts, It 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Cannabis fpuria flore albo magno ele- 
ganti. 
9. Hemp-Deadnettle with variegated Aowers. 
Lamium folio carinabino floribus variegatis. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, and 
flender fibres, 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, hairy, and two feet 
and a half in height. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and they are long, 
narrow, of a dark green, and fharply ferrated, 
The flowers are placed in a kind of {pikes at 
the tops of the ftalks, and beautifully variegated 
with white, red, and yellow. : 
It is common in the northern counties, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lamium cannabino folio flore amplo 
luteo labio purpureo. 
REIGN SPECIES, 
fine green; and they are deeply divided at the 
edges, : 
The flowers ftand in clufters in the bofoms of 
the upper leaves ; and are large and beautiful. 
The feeds are large and purplith, 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and of the 
Greek iflands, and flowers in Auguft. 
Tournefort calls it Lamium orientale folits ele- 
Santer laciniatis. 
GENUS 
