154 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
In Sir J. KE. Smith’s herbarium is a evga identical speci- 
men, labelled, as attested by a Soe 2 note of Smith’s, in the 
in P 
ambitum nee serratis nec erenatis, found by Mr. Joseph Andrews, 
Apothecary, at Sudbury in Suffolk; who says the flower is not 
one fourth part so large as that of the Common, & that the Calyx 
has but 4 spinulee, whereas the Common has Five & that it pro- 
duced no Seed.” 
rom these two labels, compared with others in Andrews’s 
herbarium, in which he always gives eget for names, it 
would appear that the Latin descriptive me is his and not 
Martyn’s. In English Botany, 769, under pron purpureum, it 
is stated that ‘“ teen is also a more rare variety with entire leaves, 
resembling those of a Parietaria, which appears by a manuscript of 
This last 
Chelsea Garden.” In Rees’s Cyoltpatie : hawev ver, Smith writes, 
under L. Dib! hat ‘* A curious variety was found near Sudbury, 
by Mr. Joseph An >) who communicated it to the a Professor 
Sessa senr., & whose original specimen is in our thi 
the margin of all the leaves is perfectly entire. The flowers are 
rather smaller than ordinary & were said to produce no seed. This 
iety is in Engl. Bot. n. 769, at the end, mistaken for our 
} lium.” 
This mistake, I presume, led to both the statements which I 
have oat in this quotation; for the leaves of both specimens 
are like those of typical L. purpurewm in all respects save their 
margin, 7. ¢. the ey are broadly ovate-reniform, obtuse and cordate, 
and do not, therefore, resemble those of a Parietaria. So, too, in 
=f English Flora (iii. 92), Smith has, under Lamium purpureum, 
e small size of the ay Tame ors vr ge tea ocainele 
pointed out, are not ‘ rather smaller than ordinary,” as — eae 
it, but ‘‘not one fourth part so rhage suggests a cleistogen 
thi 
ae : 
of Relhan’s Flora Codieetare ed. 2, is L. incisum Willd. 
hope hic scars therefore, that this form be “aes L. purpureum 
siana. 
It may be worth while to point out that none of these t three 
rms has oe claim to rank as a British wild plant. Smith’s 
oe Pe ; 
: way of spea 
of a weed in the of an an apothecary in hes town ‘elf. Neither 
~ nor Ges thought of —s the other two forms in 
