Lamitim.] labiate. 385 



On gravelly and chalky banks, in waste places, along fences, hedges and road- 

 sides, but rarely. F/. July — September. If. 



£. Med. — On the rough slope of the down above, and amongst the brushwood 

 on the rocky ground behind, Bonchurch, in several places, 1840. At Ventnor, by 

 the ' Crab and Lobster,' very sparingly, Dr. Martin!!! On a heap of stone rub- 

 bish a little to the E. below the road near Flint cottage, Ventnor, Rev. G. E. 

 Smith. Near Little Duxmore farm, 3/r. r/ios. il/eeAa«,7'«n., 1845!! Hedjje at 

 Truckles, sparingly, Dr.Bell-Salter, 1845!! A plant or two by the roadside 

 between Old Park and Mirables, 1844. 



W. Med. — Gravel-pit near Calbourne bottom. Weston farm (a plant or two 

 just within the fence by the roadside!!!). Sconce towei-, Mr. Sliooke. 



Root very large, of several thick, fleshy, horizontal fibres. Stem 2 — 4 feet 

 high, hollow, quadrangular, branched and downy like the whole plant. Leaves 

 ovato-cordate, on ihoxX, petioles, dull green above, whitish beneath, very soft to the 

 touch, with large, equal, bluntish, tooth-like serratures. Flowers white, prettily 

 speckled with pink, in dense shortly stalked clusters fiom the base of the upper 

 leaves, so closely set as to appear whorled in a spicate form, but the clusters 

 are in pairs only, and not ranged round the stem as in a true whorl. Calyx tubu- 

 lar, a little oblique, hairy, with about 15 stronsf green ribs, its teeth nearly equal. 

 Corolla hairy, longer than the calyx, its throat suddenly dilated above the very 

 slender contracted tuhe, its upper lip in 2 rounded nearly erect lobes, lower lip with 

 the 3 smaller or lateral lobes spreading or reflexed, the middle lobe broad, round- 

 ish, dotted with purple, its turned-np edges deeply and irregularly notched, hairy 

 within about the throat. Anthers rose-coloured. Style scarcely as long as the 

 stamens; stigma short, notched. Nuts rather large, dark brown, roundish oblong 

 or elliptical, subcom pressed, flatly and very obtusely triquetrous, minutely roughish 

 or subluhercular, the hilum marked by two snow-white mealy depressions, gla- 

 brous except a slight mealiness here and there, chiefly at the base. 



The herb has a strong not very pleasant smell, excepting to the feline race, 

 which are said to delight in rubbing themselves against and rolling upon it, to its 

 destruction, in gardens. 



2. N. Glechoma, Benth. Ground-ivy. Gill Alehoof. "Pro- 

 cumbent, leaves reniform crenate, whorls axillary stalked unilate- 

 ral 3 — 4 flowered, teeth of the calyx ovate mucronate." — Br. Fl. 

 p. 820. Glechoma hederacea, L. : E. B. t. 853. 



/3. All the stamens reduced to staminodia. 



Abundant on hedge- and ditch -banks, in damp gardens, orchards, woods, 

 groves, and other moist shady places. Fl. March — May. If. 



/3. In moderate abundance in Cow- or Primrose-lane, between Play-street farm 

 and Stone-pits toll-gate, near Byde, Dr. Bell-Salter !! 



Tribe VII. Stachyde.^, Benth. 



" Stamens approximating, parallel under the upper lip of the 

 corolla, 2 inferior longest. Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, spreading 

 in fruit." — Bab. Man. 



* Stamens longer than the tube of the corolla. 



X. Lamium, Linn. Dead-nettle. 



"Anthers approximating in pairs; cells diverging, bursting lon- 

 gitudinally. Upper lip of the corolla arched." — " Calyx bell- 

 shaped, 5-toothed, teeth nearly equal." — Bab. Man. 



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