Lamium.] labiate. 387 



naked within, lateral lobes of the lower lip with a short tooth." — 

 Br.Fl. p. 317. E.B.t. 1933. 



In waste and cultivated ground occasionally, but not common, though probably 

 only a variety of the species last desciibed. i^i. with L. purpur. 0. 



E. ilfffZ.— Amongst tuiuips in a field at Nettleston green, 1838. About Shank- 

 lin in several places, 1843. Fields near Shanklin, Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders .'.'.' 

 [St. Helens spit, A. G.More, Esq. Garden-grouud at Bembridge, Dr. Bell-Sal- 

 ter. — Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Hedgebanks in the lane leading from Marvel wood to White croft, 

 in some plenty, 1845. [Near Kingstone, A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] 



I am almost persuaded this is simply a form of L. purpureum, as Wahleuberg 

 makes it (Fl. Suec), but in deference to the opinion of such eminent authorities as 

 Smith, Hooker and Bentham, who believe these two species to be really distinct, 

 I have refrained from reuniting them. 



4. Li. album, Li. White Dead-nettle. White Archangel. "Leaves 

 cordato-aciiminate deeply serrated stalked, calycine teeth long 

 subulate always spreading, tube of the corolla curved upwards 

 within having a hairy ring, the throat dilated, upper lip oblong, 

 lateral lobes of the lower one with 1 — 3 long subulate teeth." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 317. E. B. t. 768. L. vulgatum, Benth. Lab. p. 514. 



On hedgebanks and walls, in waste ground, the grassy borders of fields, and 

 amongst rubbish ; not rare, but less frequent and general than the second of our 

 species. Fl. April, &c., and partially into autumn. ©. 



E. Med. — At Binstead and elsewhere about Ryde, occasionally. Extremely 

 common about Newchurch, in waste ground and hedgerows. At E. Cowes, at the 

 top of the new plantations. 



W. Med.- — Plentiful along the hedgebank of the raised causeway betwixt New- 

 port and Cavisbrooke, and along the road from Carisbrooke to Shorwell, where I 

 have gathered it with the flowers faintly tinged with red on the back of the upper 

 lip of the corolla. Frequent at Thorley. 



Root fibrous, emitting rhizomata in all directions, which again take root at the 

 joints, and send up fresh stems annually. Stems from about 6 — 12 inches high 

 or taller when drawn up in hedges, ascending or even decumbent at the base, 

 afterwards erect, pale green or purplish, qnandrangular, the angles slightly bor- 

 dered, simple or in the larger with a pair or two of opposite branches near the 

 base, harsh with spreading or deflexed hairs, hollow, weak and succulent. Leaves 

 pale green, soft and flexile, very like those of the common Nettle in shape, in 

 pairs, opposite, mostly ovato-cordate, but often rounded, truncate or subattenuated 

 at thebase, acute or acuminate, strongly and rugosely veined above, paler and 

 prominently netted beneath, roughish on both sides with short, erect, simple and 

 jointed hairs, deeply and unequally incised-dentato-serrate, the serratures rounded, 

 acute or even incurved ; lower leaves distant, on long, channelled, hairy petioles, 

 smaller than the upper leaves or those accompanying the whorls, and which are 

 on much shorter, more dilated, fringed petioles ; the highest leaves again dimi- 

 nishing in size, almost subsessile. Verticillasters of several closely sessile flowers, 

 the exterior blossoms of each semiwhorl with 2 or 3 small bracts at their base, 

 that are shorter than the calyx. Calyx tubular, campanulate, prominently 10- 

 ril)bed, a little compressed laterally, pale green dotted and blotched with brownish 

 purple, that extends to the adjacent portion of the stem and petioles ; the limb in 

 5 triangular segments, acuminated into as many long, weak, subulate, oblique 

 points of nearly equal length ; superior segment suberect, very widely separated 

 from the 2 exterior, which approximate to and project parallel with the inferior 

 pair. CoroWa nearly an inch long, curved somewhat like a long/, milk-white 

 with a faint tinge of yellow and some dots and streaks of pale olive-green on the 

 central lobe of the lower lip and at the base of the latter just within the throat ; 

 upper lip of corolla large, obovate, vaulted, much narrowed behind, traversed by 



