SOME ENTIRE-LEAVED FORMS OF LAMIUM 151 
form appearing under L. molle Ait., with the reference to Plukenet’s 
figure 6 description and the synonyms given 
t Solander’s unfortunate endorsement - the Banksian 
ns undoubtedly misled Bon thant , that monographer never 
quite corrected his error, as Mr. Britten seems * think he did. 
His first note (Labiate (1832-6), p. 512) is:—‘ L. purpureum... 
B. molle, a minus rages ceseettooa pauci-crenatis. L. 
molle Ait.! Hort. Kew. 2, 297, fide Herb. Banks.” To which is 
added the cautious note:— Huic adjecta sunt in herbario Bank. 
siano exemplaria 2, ex horto quodam antiquiore, que ad hi gg 
propriam corolle forma distinctissimam pertinere videntur, sed 
ob ace sige mancis a vermibus partim destructis describere 
nequiv 
Cotes on in the same work (p. 739) he sinks L. rssceibrnag Sm., 
which represents one of ai two forms on the Bank sheet, 
under L. purpureum, and proposes, as Mr. Britten slate ‘cal the 
‘ae species L. paritariafli, adding the query, “An L, 
var. insignis in hortis o and the note, “I have not adopted 
the name of L. molle, as grat appears to have been given by —_ 
aad to the entire-leaved variety of L. purpureum. Bot 
n the Ban csi ian herbarium on the same sheet under the name ee 
. molle. 
agit revision of the Order, Bentham lumped L. album and 
L. A under the revived pre-Linnean name L, vulgatum; 
and his subsequent treatment of the form in DeCandolle’s Pro- 
dromus (1848, vol. xii. p. 509) shows that he pars ci me ti molle 
nearer to L. maculatum. Why he shoul o, I am at a loss 
ere 
retains L. molle Ait. as var. “ 6.m pee L. pur. ag eum, While 
qupking ‘©, molle hortul. et Ait. ex eae 9”? under L. parietaria- 
Both the stems at sisi are more slender and sinuous ah e 
; n as long as in the markedly serrate 
Himalayan form L. rere Royle, and the entire ovate-acuminate 
leaves give it a very distinct appe 
correlated results of callivstion. so that it will be safest 
the varietal name L. album var. B integrifolium in Sonder 
Arthur Be 
vol. iv. 1879), an entirel different | lant, belonging to a different 
ec a & sero saved onia, allied to L. gargant- 
cum L. of the Scien 
The second of the forms ‘with goers are concerned is that 
which, having confused with the ak is per mentioned by 
