LAMIUM MOLLE. 131 
Morison says: ‘‘Lamium parietarie facie: in omnibus Lamio 
vulgari wiseudi: Facilé autem dignoscitur, ex primo, intuitu & 
ae cum parietarie foliis, similitudine’’ (Hort. Reg. Bles. 
279 (1660) 
n his Hist. Plant. Oxon. oe | shale description, and 
Paton = plant: the description rv 
“TLamium Americanum album pisiines foliis. Lamio albo 
vulgari satis accedit, tenuius tamen. /oliis marginibus integris 
i onatis. arietari i cile di a ke. 
Vid. icon. tab. en. 11. Virginie incola est ” (l. c. iii. 385) (1699). 
Morison’s figure, though small, rippin f ch atinriene = plant. 
It is not easy to explain the introduc of «‘American and of 
“Virginia” into the description, cay "chat ean be no aon as to 
what “plant was intended. 
Plukenet (Almagestum, p. 208 (1696) ) ek and (Phyto- 
graphia, t. 41, fig. 1) figures the plant, and his men is preserved 
Herb. Sloane (Ixxxiii. f, 288). It is rmantiened in the Hortus 
from Hort. Kew. (1781), is ea impor erfect pet af from Yalden’s 
garden which seems to belong her 
There are numerous other specimens of the plant in the Sloane 
Herbarium: from ‘the Physick garden in Westminster, 1687” (H. 
§. xxv. f. 32); in ‘*a book of dried plants gathered at Padua by John 
Machionuss a gardner there, which belonged to Dr. Merret, with 
it’’ (xxix. f. 155); in ‘‘ George Loudon’s H 
11, and f. 377) ; ‘Miller s Chelsea Garden plants (H.S. cexxx. f. 9) ; 
in Uvedale’s Herbarium (H.5. eccvii. 84); and in the voit of 
Banister’s plants probably gathered by him before he went to 
the West Indies in the Garden of Oxford & in the fields” (H. 8. 
elxviii. f. 188). 
From these references it would appear that the plant must at 
one time have been frequent in cultivation—a view put forward by 
BB 
Sam 
- tha. 
sero er sent him by De Candolle from the Paris Garden 
Planta in hortis botanicis antiquioribus culta, a 
7 vipat talbo] differt foliis etiam infimis rarissime cordatis, 
ipremis multo angustioribus . supine integerrimis et corollis 
minoribus. An L. vulgati var. n hortis orta?” "Thee 
ie . think, be little doubt that ha’ ‘dank should be referred to 
atioum., 
The only wild specimens I have seen are in Hansen’s Herb. 
Slesv. Holst., no. 1028, where it i . correctly identified with L. molle 
Ait., and bears the name L. album var. integrifolium Nolte, which 
I have not found in print: it is localized: ‘Unter Zannen, an 
Wegen u. Deichen; bl. Jun.” Mr. Rolfe tells me there are no wild 
acne in the Kew Herbariu 
should probably be mentioned that the phrase “ parietarie 
foliis” was also applied, though less frequently, to a form of L. 
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