268 Labrale—Lamium. 
triquetrous. There are between thirty and forty species, in 
temperate Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The generic 
name is a modification of Aatuos, throat, the form of the 
corolla. There are several indigenous species. The commonest, 
L. album, is a perennial with large white villous flowers 
produced from early Spring till Autumn. LZ. Galedbdolon, 
Yellow Archangel, is a handsome herb, plentiful in the South 
of England. It is hispid and glabrescent, with Nettle-like 
leaves and axillary whorls of showy yellow flowers spotted 
with reddish brown, appearing in May and June. L. pur- 
pitreum is an exceedingly common annual weed on cultivated 
grounds. LZ. maculatum is very near L. a/bum, with smaller 
foliage spotted or banded with white, and purplish flowers. This 
is the only one commonly seen in gardens, and it is occasion- 
ally found in waste places as a straggler from cultivation. 
Leontirus Cardaca, Motherwort, is a perennial herb from 
2 to 3 feet high with deeply-lobed leaves and crowded whorls 
of purplish flowers having sharply-toothed calyces. Formerly 
cultivated, and now occasionally found in waste and neglected 
places. 
11. STACHYS (including Beténica). 
Herbs or undershrubs with toothed leaves and terminal 
racemes or spikes of flowers. Calyx nearly equally 5-toothed. 
Corolla-tube not dilated at the throat; and usually furnished 
with a ring of hairs inside; upper lip erect or spreading ; 
lower lip longer, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes often reflexed. 
Stamens 4, the lower pair longer. This is a large genus, 
numbering nearly 150 species; found in temperate and warm 
regions. The name is from ordyvs, an ear or spike, the form 
of the inflorescence. There are several native species. 8. 
Beténica, Wood Betony, is a common plant in England. It 
is a taJl herb with dense terminal bracteate spikes of reddish 
purple flowers. S. sylvdtica and S. pultistris are also toler- 
ably common. 
1. S. landta.—This is the species employed in bedding for 
its tufted silvery foliage, which is densely clothed with a silky 
tomentum. The flowers are small and inconspicuous. A native 
of South-eastecn Europe and Asia Minor. 
S. coccinea is a South American species about 3 feet high, 
with cordate toothed hairy leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers 
in svikes of whorls. 
