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LABIATE 



calyces are conspicuous. — Hedges and waste places ; rare and not 

 indigenous. — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



i6. Lamium (Dead-nettle). — Hairy herbs with leaves so closely 

 resembling those of the Stinging Nettles that many persons are 

 afraid to handle them, though the square stems in the case of the 

 Dead-nettles, and the small, green flowers in spiked clusters in 



that of the Stinging 

 Nettles, are sufficient 

 to distinguish them 

 from one another. 

 The Dead - nettles 

 liave their flowers in 

 many-flowered whorls 

 in the axils of leafy 

 brads ; caly:: tubular 

 or bell-shaped, 5- 

 toothed ; corolla with 

 an inflated throat, 

 arched tipper lip, 

 3-lobed lower lip ; 

 stamens 4, the 2 

 lowest the longest ; 

 anthers generally 



hairy, bursting length- 

 wise. (Name from 

 the Greek latinos, the 

 gullet, from the shape 

 of the corolla.) 



I. L. amplexicaiilc 

 (Henbit - nettle). — 

 Sienz 4 — 10 in. high, 

 branched from the 

 base ; loit'er leaves 

 long-stalked, round- 

 ish, deeply cut; upper 

 sessile, amplexicaul, kidney-shaped ; flowers crimson, in distant 

 whorls ; calyx small, very downy, with teeth converging in fruit ; 

 corolla with long, slender tube. — Dry waste ])laces ; common. — 

 Fl. May---August. Annual. 



2. L. molucellijMiiim (Intermediate Dead-nettle). — Intermediate 

 between the preceding species and L. ptirpt'ireum, but most 

 resembling the former ; stouter and more succulent ; calyx slightly 

 hairy ; teeth much longer than the tube, not converging in fruit ; 



LEOnCkus cardiaca {Common tlothej'juort). 



