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serrate, soft, downy haves ; and large, pale 3'ellow flowers. — Sandy 

 cornfields ; rare. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



4 G. speeiosa (Large-flowered Hemp-nettle). — A large, stout, 

 hispid plant, 2 — 3 feet high, with stem swollen at its nodes ; leaves 

 long stalked, oblong-ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate ; corolla 

 large, yellow, usually with a broad red spot' on the lower lip, tube 

 niuch longer than the calyx, upper lip arched, as broad as long. — 

 Cornfields; frequent. — Fl. July, August. ^Vnnual. 



5. G. TctraliU (Common 

 Hemp-nettle). — A closely- 

 allied species, not reaching 

 so gTeat a height, with more 

 strongly ribbed calyx, with 

 teeth as long as its tube, 

 and a smaller, generally 

 rose-colour and white 

 corolla, its Hihe not longer 

 than the calyx, and its upper 

 lip flatter and longer than 

 it is broad. — Cornfields ; 

 common. — Fl. July — Sep- 

 tember. Annual. 



^^15. Lfoxurus (Mother- 

 wort). — Erect, herbaceous 

 plants, with lobed leaves : 

 dense, distant, axillary 

 whorls of small flo'icers ; 

 calyx bell-shaped, with 5 

 prickly, spreading teeth ; 

 corolla with the upper lip 

 nearly flat, very hairy abo^e ; 

 anthers sprinkled with hard, 

 shining dots, bursting 

 lengthwise. (Xame from 

 the Greek leoii, a lion, oura, a tail, from some fancied resemblance 

 in the plant.) 



I.* L. Cardiaca (Common Motherwort).; — Distinguished I'rom 

 all British plants of the Crder by its radical leaves which are on 

 long, slender stalks, and are deeply palmatgly 3 — 5-kibed. The 

 stem is 2 — 4 feet high, branched mainly below, and very leafy. 

 The upper leaves are narrow and entire, of nearlv so, and, when 

 not in flower, the plant resembles Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) 

 in habit. The flowers are pink, and their whorls of prickly 



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