38G LABIATE. [Lamium. 



1. L. amplexicaule, L. Great Henbit. Henhit Dead-nettle. 

 " Leaves orbicular wrinkled inciso-crenate, the floral ones sessile 

 becoming distant by the lengthening of the stem, teeth of the 

 calyx lanceolato-subulate about as long as the tube erect after 

 flowering, tube of the corolla straight naked within, tooth of the 

 lateral lobes of the lower lip obsolete." — Br. Fl. p. 318. E. B. t. 

 770. 



In waste and cultivated ground, gardens, fallows, ahout dung-hills, &o. ; not 

 uncommon, especially on a sandy soil. Fl. whole year, but most perfectly in 

 spring and summer. 0. 



2. Ti. purpxireum, \j. Red Dead-nettle. Red Archangel. "Leaves 

 cordate crenate all stalked, upper ones crowded, teeth of the calyx 

 as long as the tube always spreading, tube of the corolla straight 

 within having a hairy ring, the throat much dilated, lateral lobes 

 of the lower Up with two short teeth." — Br. Fl. p. 317. Sm. E. 

 Fl. iii. p. 91. E. B. xi. t. 769. Curt. Fl. Lond. i. fasc. 1, t. 42. 

 Benth. Lab. p. 112. 



j3. Flowers white or nearly so. 



In cultivated and waste ground, gardens, fallows, ditch- and hedge-banks, 

 walls, and in grassy places; everywhere abundant. Fl. spring— autumn, and 

 partially the year through. 0. 



/3. Hedgebank at Fishbourne. 



Hoot of numerous slender pale fibres. Stem 6 — 10 inches high, reclining and 

 usually branched at the base, where it is more slender than towards the summit, 

 and is sometimes procumbent and rooting, hollow, curved, partly purplish, weak 

 and succulent, square, roughish and slightly winged or bordered at the angles, 

 leafless in the middle, with a pair or two of opposite roundish leaves on long hairy 

 footstalks above or below the centre ; uppermost leaves crowded, deflexed, broadly 

 cordate,, bluntish, unequally crenate (rarely entire), strongly veined and wrinkled, 

 soft and hairy, more or less tinged with purple, the terminal ones very small and 

 pointed. Flowers in axillary, many -flowered, sessile whorls, the upper ones 

 closely crowded, the lowermost whorl sometimes a little remote. Calyx a little 

 curved, the teeth subulate, fringed, spreading, purplish black along the angles, as 

 are also the corners of the stem between the whorls. Corolla rose-coloured, much 

 smaller than in L. album ; upper lip oval, entire or slightly notched, shaggy, deeply 

 coloured, lateral lobes inflated, forming with the throat a sac or pouch, their supe- 

 rior margin reflexed, stained with purple within anteriorly, where they terminate 

 each in a single, sharp, recurved, tooth -like appendage, having another and 

 smaller bluntish one beneath it; loiver lip in 2 roundish, deeply divided, deflexed 

 or spreading lobes stained with purple in the centre, their margins slightly notched 

 in front; teie nearly straight, streaked with purple, as is the throat, and having 

 within a ring of stiff white hairs, pointing a little forwards, inserted between the 

 coloured portion of the tube and its pale annular base Stamens hairy ; anthers 

 with several tufts of stiff hairs or bristles on the face of each cell, and according 

 to Mr. Leighton accompanied by 6 — 8 small, white, oval, tuberculate bodies at 

 their base, but of which I can find no trace in my specimens, and presume there- 

 fore they are not constantly present ; pollen bright scarlet, of many oval or ellip- 

 tical grains. 



8. L. incisum, Willd. Cut -leaved Dead-nettle. "Leaves 

 broadly cordate or deltoid - cuneate deeply inciso - crenate all 

 stalked, the uppermost crowded, teeth of the calyx subulate about 

 as long as the tube always spreading, tube of the corolla straight 



