Lamium purpureum. Red Lamium or Dead Nettle. 



LAMIUM Llnntel Gen. PI. Didynamia Gymnospermia. Corolla labium fuperius integrum, fornicatum, 

 labium inferius bilobum ; faux utrinque margine dentata. Lin. Deficrip. Gen. abbre-v. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. 14. Suffrut.ices et herb^ verticillat^. 



3LAM1UM purpureum foliis cordatis obtufis petiektis. Llnnal Syfu Vegetal, p. 446. Sp. PI. 809. Ft 

 Sueclc. 203. 



LAMIUM foliis cordatis, obtufis, "in fummo ramo congeftis. Mailer, viji. v. 1 . 118. 



LAMIUM purpureum. Scopoll FI. Carnlol. p. 40.7. n. *joi. 



LAMIUM purpureum fsetidum, folio fubrotundo, five Galeopfis Diofcoridis. Bauhln. pin. 230. Lamium ru- 

 bru?n. Gerard emac. 70 3- Parklnfon. 604, Rail. Synopfis Small Dead Nettle or red Archangel 240» 

 Mudfon. FI. Angl. 225. ©eder. FI. Dan. icon. 523. 



•RADIX annua, Ebrofa. | ROOT annual and fibrous. 



CAULES plures, ad bafin debiles, et ramofi, prope | STALKS feveral, at bottom weak and branched, near 



fummitatem fere nudi, et fsepe colorati, femi- t the top aknoft naked, and frequently coloured, 



pedales, quadrangulares, fiftulofi, fcrabiufculi. | fix inches -or more in height, quadrangular, 



3: hollow, and flightly rough. 



FOLIA oppofita, venofa, hnrfutula, inferiora fubrotun- X LEAVES oppofite, veiny, flightly hairy, the lower 



do-cordata, crenata, longe petiolata : fuperiora I ones of a roundim-heart fhaped form, notched, 



ovato-cordata, obtufe ferrata, petiolisbrevibusin- t and placed on footftalks, the uppermoft ones 



fidentia, alterne oppofita, reflexa, denfe etim- | oval-heart-lhaped, obtufely ferrated, with fhort 



bricatim congefta, etrubedine tincta. £ footftalks, alternately oppofite, growing thickly 



# together, bent back and laying one over another, 



I of a reddifh .colour. 



FLORES purpurei, in fummis caulibus verticillatim I FLOWERS purple, growing thickly together on the 



denfius ftipati .. Verticilli multiflori. | tops of the ftaiks in Whirls ; many flowers in 



£ each whirl. 



CALYX: PsRiANTHiuMmonophyHum, tubulatum, fu- £ CALYX: a Peri an thium of one leaf, tubular, at top 



perne patentius, quinquedentatum, fubftria- | fpreading, with five teeth, fomcwhat ftriated 



turn, hirfutulum, dentibus fubaequalibus, acu- | and hairy, the teeth nearly equal and long 



minatis. fig. 1. | pointed. j?g\ 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, ringens, palllde ^urpurea,^. 2 ; % COROLLA monopetalous, gaping, of a pale purple 



tubus brevis, cylindraceus, fig. 6; faux in- £ colour, fig. 2 -; the tube fhort and cylindrical, 



flata, margine utroquebideutata,^. 4; denticulo | fig- 6; the entrance of the tube inflated, 



fuperiori dpinse fimili, inferiore obtufiore, macula ? the margin on each fide furnifhed with two 



notatai labium fuperius,^. 3, ova turn, conca- * teeth, fig. 4; the uppermoft pointed like a thorn, 



vum, villofulum, integrum, labium inferms £ the lowermoft blunter with a fpot on it ; the 



hilobum, maculatum, lobis patentibus. fig. 5. | -upper lip fig. 3 ; oval, hollow, flightly villous, 



I entire, the under lip divided into two lobes, fpread- 



% ing a little from -one another, and fpotted, fig. 5. 



STAMINA: Filament a qnatuor, fubulata, alba, fub | STAMINA: four Filaments, tapering and white, hid 



labio fuperori tecla, quorum duo longiora, j%-. 7 ; ^ under the upper lip, two of which are longer 



Antherje oblongse, barbatae, polline croceo i than the reft fig. 7; the Anthers oblong, 



repletse. fig. 8. | bearded, and and full of a yellow pollen fig. 8. 



PISTILLUM: GERMENquadrifidum; Stylus filiformis, % PISTJLLUM : GERMENquadrifid; Stylus filiform, the 



longitudine et fituftaminum; St* gma bifidum, | length of the Stamina; Stigma bifid and 



acutum, fig.y, 10, 11. £ pointed^. 9, 10, 11. 



SEM1NA 4 in fundo calycis, palHda, triangularia, apiee | SEEDS 4 in the bottom of the Calyx, of a pale brown, 



•truncata, marginata^ fig, 1 2.. | triangular, cut off" as it were at top, with a 



£ margin found them, fig. 12. 



Although, this plant may perhaps with propriety be confidered as a Weed in Gardens, yet the bright colour of 

 its tops and flowers, joined to its early appearance, contributes not a little to ornament our banks in the Spring, 

 when few other plants appear in blohom. 



The Flowers are mod commonly of a bright red colour, fometimes white, and are much reforted to by Bees of 

 various kinds. 



The Leaves and Flowers are thofe parts of the plant, which are ufed in Medicine, although in the prefent 

 practice they are fcarce regarded. 



According to Linnjeus it is boiled in Upland, a Province of Sweden, as a pot herb. A Variety of this plant 

 occurs not unfrequently about Town, which has its leaves more deeply indented. Ray calls it Lamium rubrum 

 minus, Jollls profunde mclfis, I have found it growing on a bank on the right hand fide of the way between Plmllco and 

 Chdfm. 



