388 LABIATE. [Lamium. 



a bifid or trifid prominenl ridge or keel, the forks of which terminate in the irre- 

 gularly crenate anterior margin, very downy with long white hairs externally, 

 glabrons within; lower lip glabrous, the lateral lobes minute, almost merged in 

 the in Hexed throat, tlieir superior horizontal margins a little folded down or 

 reflexed, and terminating anteriorly in a blunt angle, beinw which is a subulate 

 tooth or process, the margin continuing downwards in a vertical direction to the 

 base of the anterior lobe, obscurely dentato-ci-enate ; central or anterior lobe 

 roundish oboordate or nearly circular, deeply emarginate, strongly and irregularly 

 crenate in front; all the lobes move or less reflexed, and suddenly contracted 

 behind into a short neck or claw ; tube scarcely a line in length, its mouth closed 

 vpith a ring of white hairs ; throat dilated, with a membranaceous sac-like gibbo- 

 sity underneath, running back to the orifice of the tube, and rounded at the apex 

 or somewhat spurred. Stamens unequal ; filaments white, downy, partly with soft 

 and weak, partly with stiff glandular hairs ; anthers not cohering in pairs, black, 

 strongly bearded at the back with long white hairs ; pollen greenish yellow, grains 

 oval : 1 do not find the small tubercular bodies at the base of the anthers men- 

 tioned by Leighlon. Style as long as the stamens, very slender, slightly enlarged 

 upwards, brfid at the summit, the forks equal, divaricate. 



With a wide distribution, L. album is yet a somewhat local species, nor is it by 

 any means universally diffused over the Isle of Wight. At Great Yarmouth, as I 

 learn from Mr. Dawson Turner, it is amongst the rarest plants. 



5. L. Galeoldolon, *Crantz. Yellow Archaiuiel. Yelloiv Wea- 

 sel-snout. " Lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla oblong 

 acute." — Br. Fl. p. 316. Benth. Lab. p. 510. Galeobdolon 

 luteum, Hiicls. : E. B. t. 787. 



In moist shady places, woods, groves and under hedges ; plentifully in various 

 parts of the island. i^Z. April — June. 2|. 



E, Med. — Abundant in Great wood, Lucconibe copse, and other woods near 

 Shanklin, also in the chine. At Apse castle, and about Appuldurcombe, frequent. 

 Steephill and other parts of the Undercliff. About Cowes, in Shamblev's copse, 

 in Barton copse, between Norris castle and King's quay. Near Mirables, Mr. 

 Fred. Russell in With. 



W. Med. — Bottomground copse, near Newport. 



Root fleshy or somewhat tuberous at the crown, often a little creeping, with 

 copious long, pale, branched fibres, emitting barren shoots procumbent and root- 

 ing at the joints. Stems several, from about 12 to 20 inches high, flexuose or 

 ascending at the base, then erect, simple, quadrangular, hollow in the centre, 

 purplish and hispid in their lowest part with white, stiff, mostly deflexed hairs, 

 greenish and comparatively glabrous for f rds of their length, the barren shoots 

 hairy throuKhout. Leaves opposite, stalked, bright green, sometimes spotted with 

 while or purplish beneath, the lower pair or two sm.iUer and more distant, 

 as well as on longer stalks and without flowers in their axils; ovate or as they 

 ascend becoming ovato-lanceolate, acute, strongly depiesso-venose, rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, coarsely, deeply and unequally inciso-sevrate, the serra- 

 tures rounded or acute, with glandular tips, flexible and soft with erect scattered 

 pubescence, more copious ou the under surface, which is reticulated with promi- 

 nent veins. Petioles hairy, caniculate and dilated downwards, gradually shorten- 

 ing and widening as they ascend, the uppermost scarcely a line in length, of the 

 lowermost leaves often an inch or more. Whorls axillary, of about 6 to 10 sessile 

 Jlowers the size of those of Lamium album, the exterior ones with a linear, cili- 

 ated, mucronulate bract at the base of each, shorter than the calyx, of which those 

 behind them are destitute. Calyx green, tubuloso-campanulate, pubescent, with 

 about 5 principal and as many secondary ribs ; teeth 5, triangular, with fine subu- 

 late points, the 4 inferior ones neatly equal, spreading or even a little recurved, 

 the inferior one larger, erect and remote. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip very large, 

 obovale, vaulted, downy, minutely and unevenly waved or crenulate along the 

 edges but not emarginate, finely fringed, pale yellow ; loiver lip tvifld, golden yel- 



