THE SPOTTED DEAD- 

 NETTLE. 



Ldlll'iKUl IIIKfllhll lim. 



1 HE is an old i'rieud o£ the 

 cottage garden. What is it — 

 X sjiecies or a variely? And 

 if a varietur, what name does 

 the species Lear ? In the 

 opinion of the writer Laiiiium 

 pnrjmreuiit (the finrple dead- 

 nettle), Jj. ulljuiii (the white 

 dead-nettle);, and the plant 

 before us are but forms of 

 one and the same siJceies. But 

 as the}^ differ in habits and 

 i^pcct'., so also they differ in con- 

 stitution. The first is an annual 

 with broadish lieart-shajied leaves and 

 rosy-purple flowers; the second is a 

 perennial with heart-shaped leaves, more pointed than 

 the other, and white flowers ; the third, which is here 

 figured, has leaves of the same form as the last, l_)ut 

 spotted with white, and the flowers are purple and some- 

 what showy. Seen in a large p)atch in a rustic garden it 

 makes a goodly show, aud the grand gardener occasionally 

 takes it in hand to give colour to the rockery or to form 

 an edging. 



