Lamium album. White Dead-Nettle. 



LAMIUM Linnai Gen. PI. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



Corolla lab. fup. integrum, fornicatum ; lab. inf. 2-lobum, faux utrinque 

 margine dentata. 

 RaiiSyn. Gen. 14. Suffrutices et Herbje vertictllat^:. 



LAMIUM album foliis cordatis, acuminatis, ferratis, petiolatis, verticillis vigintifloris. Lin. Syjl. Vegetal» 

 p. 446» Sp. pi. p. 446. Flor. Suecic. p. 203. 



LAMIUM foliis cordatis, acutis, ferratis, verticillis multifloris. Haller. hifi. helv. n. 271. 



LAMIUM album, Scopoli FL Camlol. ?u 700. 



LAMIUM album non foetens folio oblongo. Bauhln. Pin. 231. 



LAMIUM album. Gerard emac. 782. 



LAMIUM vulgare album live Archangelieum flore albo. Parkin/on. 604. 



■Rati Syn. 240. White Archangel or Dead-Nettie. 



Hudfon, Fl. Angl. ed. 1. p. 225. ed. 2. 255. 



Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 308. 



RADIX perennis, alba, geniculata, repens. | ROOT perennial, white, jointed, and creeping. 



CAULES plurimi, pedales, fuberecli, fimplices, bar! | STALKS numerous, a foot high, nearly upright, un- 



tenuiores, quadrati, fiftulofi, hirfutuli, in a- % branched, flender at bottom, fquare, hollow, 



pricis ex rufo-purpurafcentes, furculi debiles, | and {lightly hairy ; in expofed fituations, of a 



adfcendentes. % reddilh purple colour : the young moots weak 



t and riling upward. 



FOLIA petiolata, cordata, acuta, deflexa, maequaliter | LEAVES ftanding on foot-ftalks, heart-fhaped, point- 



ferrata, apicibus denticulorum rufis introrfum % ed, hanging down, unequally ferrated ; the 



verfis, venofa, fuperne et inferne hirfutula, | tips of the little teeth red and turned in- 



fummis ut caules fsepe coloratis, circa radi- y ward, veiny, above and beneath fomewhat 



cem folioli etiam occurrunt fubrotunda, ere- % hirfute ; the uppermoft leaves, as well as the 



nulata. I ftalks, frequently coloured ; the leaves about 



^ the root are often fmall, round, and crenated. 



FLORES verticillati, majufculi, albi ; haud infrequenter f FLOWERS growing in whirls, largifh, of a yellowiih 



etiam rubore quodam tincti ; verticilli decern | white colour, not uncommonly tinged with, 



quindecem aut vigintiflori. % red ; the whirls having ten, fifteen, or twen- 



| ty flowers in them. 



CALYX: PerianthiUM monophyllum, tubulofum, | CALYX: a Perianthium of one leaf, tubular, feflile, 



femle, nervofum, quinquedentatum, denti- ¥ rib'd, hirfute and continuing, having five 



bus fetaceis, hirfuturn, perfhtens, inferne ad | teeth, which are fetaceous ; on its lower fide, 



bafin maculis purpureis notatum et brac~bea ? at bottom, marked with purple fpots, and 



brevi lineari furTultum, jig. 1, 2. | fupportedbyafhort linear bradealleaf,^. 1,2. 



COROLLA monopetala, ringens; tubus longitudine | COROLLA monopetalous and ringent ; the tube 



ferelabii fuperioris, curvatus, antice inferne \ nearly the length of the upper lip, andcrook- 



prominulus, fuperne intropreflus, faux inflata, | ed, anteriorly prominent below, and preffed 



margine utraque denticulis duobus plerumque ^ in above ; the mouth inflated, and marked 



notata, labium fuperius fornicatum, pilofum, | generally on each fide with two little teeth; 



emarginatum, aliquando etiam dentatum, li- | the upper lip arched, hairy, with a flight 



neis duabus elevatis ad verticem coadunatis % notch, and fometimes indented, difHnguifhed 



notatum, labium inferius bifidum, reflexum, | by two elevated lines, which unite at the 



crenulatum, ad bafin maculatum, fig. 3, 4. % crown ; the inferior lip bifid, turned back, 



t flightly notched, and fpotted at bottom, 



I fig- 3-> 4« 



STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, filiformia, alba, * STAMINA: four Filaments, filiform, white, the 



apicibus villofis, paululum incrafiatis et in- | tips villous, a little thickned and bent in- 



curvatis: Anthers purpurea, hirfute ; | ward : Anthers purple and hairy ; Pollen 



Pollen flavum, fig. 5. f yellow, fig. 5. . ,'' 



PISTILLUM: Germen quadrifidum, fig. 6, glandu- | PISTILLUM : Germen divided Unto four, fig. ,6 fur- 

 la cinaum, fig. 7: Stylus filiformis longi- * rounded by a gland, fig. 7. Style filiform, 

 tudine et fitu Staminum: Stigma bifidum | of the fame length and fituation as the Stami- 

 acutum,j%". 8, 9. | na : Stigma bifid and acute, fob, 9. 



SEMINA quatuor, in fundo calycis, trigona, appendi- | SEEDS four, in the bottom of the Calyx, three corner- 



culata, fig. 10, Y ed, with a little appendage at bottom,/^-. 10. 



THE White Dead-Nettle or Archangel, is one of our earlieft fpring plants, ornamenting our banks in April 

 and May ; and is much reforted to by Bees for the fake of its honey, which is fecreted into the bottom of the tube 

 in confiderable plenty, by a little gland furrounding the bafe of the germen. , 



' The flowers have been particularly celebrated in uterine fluors, and other female weakneffes ; as alio m diiorders 

 of the lungs ; but they appear to be of very weak virtue : Lewis s Difp. part. 2. f. 163. 



The bruifed leaves are recommended to difcufs tumours, even of the fchrophulous kind ; Rutty s Mat. Med p.iyi, 

 but very little dependance is to be placed on fuch recommendations. There is fcarce a plant but what (if we may 

 believe the antients) poflefles fome wonderfully healing power of this kind. 



Like the other Lamiums, it has a difagreeable fmell when bruifed. 



Boys make whiffles of the ftalks. . " . , ., , 



In the fouth of France, it is faid to occur with a purple flower. I have frequently found it flightly tinged with red. 



The Phalana Chryfiiis, BurniJJjed Brafs Moth, Lin. Faun. Suecic. p. 311. Albin. Inject, tao. p, feeds on it : and in 

 Sweden the leaves are eaten in the fpring as a pot-herb ; Lin. Flor. Suecica. % 



Having a ftrong creeping perennial root, and being a plant which cattle diflike, it fliould be extirpated by the 

 Farmer 



