DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Betonica. 167 



two-lobed, hairy. Upper whorls nearly contiguous. Ls. egg- 

 spear-shaped, hispid, saw-tootlied. Cal.-teetli very long, bristle- 

 shaped. Colour of the ^. variable. 



Harvest men attribute to handling this plant, occasional severe 

 inflammation of the hand, or finger. F. T. 



G. versicolor. Large Floivered H.^ Bee-Nettle. Stem 

 bristly, swollen below the joints. Corolla thrice the 

 length of the caljrx ; upper lip swollen ; middle lobe of 

 the lower lip heart-shaped. E. B. 667. C. 6. 38. 



Sandy fields. * * Near Bladon. Mrs. Tlwmas, Oxford^ and Mr. 

 Coles, Woodstock. 



An. July, Jlugust, 



Fl. larger than in G. Tetrahit, yellow marked with red, or orange, 

 on the palate : lower lip, middle segm., purple, bordered with 

 white ; upper lip, broad, very hairy, much notched : a hand- 

 some plant in^. 



GALEO^BDOLON. Weasel-snout. 

 G. luteum. Yellow W, Yellow Archangel. E. B. 

 787« G. Galeopsis. Sb. 185. Lamium luteum. G. 

 E. 702. 



Shady, rather moist places. 



Per. May. 



Stems upright, simple, about one f., square, as in all this nat. order. 

 Ls. upper ones sub-egg-shaped, pointed, of various length, bright- 

 green, deeply, unequally saw-toothed, somewhat hauy. Fl. 

 whorled, large, yellow, longer than the cal. ; the under lip acute, 

 spotted and streaked with red. Cal.-teeth spreading, bristly. 

 Bract., linear. Ls., uppermost egg-spear-shaped. 

 Fl., of a Leonurus ; habit of a Lamium. Leaves sometimes 



variegated. 



BETONICA. Betony. 

 B. officindlis. Wood B. Spike interrupted. Middle 

 segment of the lower lip notched. E. B. 1142. C. 

 3. Q^. Betonica. G. E. 714. 



Woods, thickets. Shotover Hill. Stow Wood. Southleigh. Sb. 

 Per. July. 



Plant rough with stiff hairs: hence its power of provoking sneez- 

 ing, when dried. Stem simple, about one f., and a half, almost 

 leafless. I^s., root-ones on long stalks, egg-shaped, saw-toothed 

 bluntly : uppermost Is., oblong, opposite, nearly stalkless. Spike 

 blunt, of several whorls, the lowermost generally remote, with 

 a pair of leaf-like bract. Small entire bract., to each fi. Cor., 

 dull-rose-colour, downy, sometimes pale, or white. 

 Said to be mildly astringent, and the root emetic, violently pur- 

 gative, intoxicating, when fresh : often smoked as tobacco. In 



