
_ 2. U. leaves opposite, cordate, ovate-lanceolate, tisica. 
deeply serrated; flowers divicous; spikes pa- , 
iy _ niculated, glomerate, in pairs, longer than the 4 
petiole. — Willd. : 
7. Icon. Fl. Dan. 746. and Woodville’s Med. 
Bot. vol. 3. t. 146. 
Common Nettle. 
From one to two feet high, always growing in quantities to- 
gether. Nettle was formerly much used as a medicine. (See 
Woodville ;) it is still employed in domestic practice. In | 
wastes and among rubbish near habitations, introduced, but 
naturalized. Perennial. June, July. 
5. U. leaves alternate, cordate-ovate, acuminate, ¢apitata? 
_ serrated, three-nerved, twice as long as the peti- 
ole; glomeruli spiked; spikes solitary, shorter 
than the leaf, leafy above; stem naked.—/Filld. 
and Pursh. i 
About the same size as No. 2, which it resembles. Along 
the margins of the Delaware, both sides, in thickets; com- 
mon: Perennial. July. 
4. U. leaves alternate, cordate-ovate, acuminate, Canadensis. 
serrated,every where hispid; panicles axillary, 
for the most part in pairs, divaricately and very 
much branched, the lower ones masculine, long- 
er than the petiole, the upper ones elongated, 
feminine; stem very hispid and stinging.— 
Willd. 
Icon. Pluk. alm. t. 237. f. 2. 
Hemp WNetile. 
_A large and common looking plant, from two to six feet 
high. Leaves large. The bark of this species affords a fine 
strong hemp, well worth attention. In shady woods and 
thickets along the Schuylkill; common. Perennial. July, 
August. ] 
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