310 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



GALEOPSIS. Gen, pL 717. 

 Corolla labium fuperius fubcrenatum, fornicatum ; 

 labium inferius fupra bidentatum. 

 tetrahit i. GALEOPSIS internodiis caulinis fuperne incrafia- 

 tis, verticillis fummis fubcontiguis, calycibus 

 fubpungentibus. Lin. fyji, nat. p. 393. Sp. pL 

 810. {Ger. em, 709./. i. Rivin. /. ^i) 

 Nettle-Hemp, or Hemp-lcav'd dead Nettle. Jnglis. 

 In com fields and hedges. G. VIII. 



The (lalk is ere6l, from two to four feet high, 

 branched, covered with rigid hairs, and gouty 

 juft under the joints : the leaves are of an oval- 

 lanceolate figure, nervous, ferrated, and fup- 

 ported on footftalks : the flowers are either pur- 

 pie or white, with a fpot on the lower lip, vari- 

 gated with purple and yellow : the Corolla is 

 twice as long as the Cdy^, 

 var, (^. There is a very beautiful variety of this common 

 in corn fields, with large yellow flowers, four 

 times as long as the Calyx, having the middle 

 fegment of the lower lip purple. Tliis is made 

 by Haller a diftind fpecies. {vid.fig. Rivin, /. 32. 

 Barrelier ic. 11 58. Ger. em, 709./. 2 ? PluL L 

 4I-/-4) 



^^7 tjj GALEOPSIS verticillis fexfloris; involucro tetra- 



'^^''^^ ' phyllo. Sp.pl 810. {Ger, em. 702. /. 2. Rivip, 



i, 20. Mor. bifi, f, II. t, II, f. 5. Pet, herb. i. 



Yellow 



