No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 155 



rows and waste places. May — ^June; fruit late June — July. 

 Naturalized from the Old World. 



Early in the last century extensively planted to furnish 

 food for silkworms, and many large old trees remain about 

 farmhouses. Birds and poultry are so fond of the fruit that 

 one or more of these trees, when properly situated, would 

 tend to prevent the destruction of cultivated berries maturing 

 during the same period. 



URTICA L. Nettle. 

 Urtica gracilis Ait. (slender). 

 Slender or Tall Wild Nettle. 



Frequent or common. Roadsides, fence-rows and waste 

 places. June — Aug. 



A troublesome weed, best exterminated by digging. 



Urtica Lyallii Wats. 



Waste places, roadsides and low ground along streams. 

 Stafford (Graves & Bissell), Southington (Andrews), New- 

 town (Eames) ; and probably occurring throughout the state, 

 as the species has been confused with Urtica gracilis. July — 

 Aug. 



Urtica dioica L. (dioecious). 

 Stinging or Great Nettle. 



Rare. Waste places in rich soil: Guilford (G. H. Bart- 

 lett), Seymour (Harger), North Canaan (M. B. Tobey). 

 June — Aug. Adventive from Europe. 



The plant is medicinal. 



Urtica urens L. (burning). 

 Small or Dwarf Nettle. 



Rare. Waste places, cultivated ground and about farm- 

 yards : Groton and Lebanon (Graves), New London (D. C. 

 Eaton), Southington (Andrews), Woodbridge (A. W. 

 Evans) . June — Aug. Adventive from Europe. 

 The plant is medicinal. 



LAPORTEA Gaud. Wood Nettle. 



Laportea canadensis (L.) Gaud. 

 Urticastrum divaricatiim Kuntze. 

 Wood or Canada Nettle. Albany Hemp. 



