Stachys.] labiat^e. 389 



low, variegated with tawny or fulvous streaks and dots, wilh which the margin of 

 the upper lip is sometimes besprinkled wilhin, 2 lateral lobes roundish ovate, acu- 

 minate in front but without lateral teeth, middle lube linear-oblong, tipped with a 

 small point, entire, much longer than the lateral lobes; tube very short, reddish 

 and glabrous, closed at its junction with the throat of the corolla by an oblique 

 ring of white hairs. Filaments white, downy ; anthers with purplish edges. Style 

 reddish, filiform, slightly enlarged upwards, bifid at the summit, the segments 

 spreading, acute, the lower one longest. 



XI. Galeopsis, Linn. Hemp-nettle. 



" Calyx campanulate, equal, 5-toothed, teeth mucronate. Co- 

 rolla with the tube exserted, the throat inflated : upper lip arched ; 

 lower one with 3 unequal lobes, having two teeth on its upper 

 side. The two anterior stamens the longest. Anther-cells oppo- 

 site, bursting transversely, 2-valved. Achenes rounded at the 

 end."— Br. Fl. 



1. G. Ladanum, Li. Eed Hemp-nettle. " Stem softly pubescent 

 with deflexed hairs or glabrous not swollen below the joints, 

 leaves lanceolate subserrate downj' on both sides, calyx having 

 sometimes a few glands, upper lip of the corolla slightly notched." 

 —Br. Fl. p. 315. E. B. t. 884. 



Abundant in dry gravelly or chalky cornfields, fallows, waste ground, and on 

 chalk or limestone rubble, in various parts of the island ; also on ditchbanks, dry 

 stony hills and grassy borders of fields, thickets, &c. ; occasionally. FL July — 

 October. O . 



JS. Med. — Abundant in many places along the Undercliff, as in the cornfields 

 above Bonuhurch, St. Lawrence, &c. About Ashey, in fields above Eagle-head 

 copse. New Fairlee farm. At Beaper farm, near Brading, 1848. Fields near 

 Bembvidge down, Mr. Saunders. 



W. Med. — Cornfields about Yarmouth and the Needles hotel. Ningwood and 

 elsewhere between Yarmouth and Newport. Rowledge. Field above North 

 Court, abundantly, 1842. Between Apes Down and Rowledge, 1843. 



Achenia grayish brown, obovale, rounded at the back and summit, subtrique- 

 trous, shining and glabrous. 



2. Gr. Tetrahit, L. Common Hemp-nettle. " Stem hispid 

 swollen below the joints, leaves oblong-ovate acuminate hispid 

 serrated, calyx-teeth twice as long as the tube, corolla with the 

 tube as long as the calyx, upper lip erect OYa.te."—Br. Fl. p. 816. 

 E. B. t. 207. 



;3. Flowers white. 



In cultivated ground, amongst corn, &c., in waste places, moist woods, thickets, 

 hedges and about ditches ; abundantly. Fl. July— September. 0. 

 /3. Lower Knighton, near the mill. 



XII. Stachys, Linn. Woundwort. 



" Calyx tubular, bell-shaped, with 5 equal teeth." " Upper lip 

 of the corolla concave, lower of 3 unequal lobes." "Anthers 

 approaching in pairs ; cells diverging, bursting longitudinally." 

 " Nuts obtuse, and convex at the end." — Bab. Man. 



