GALEOBbdLON Galeopsis. Yellow Archangel. 



GALEOBDOLON Hudfon FL Angl. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 24. Suffrutices et Herb2e verticillat^, 



GALEOBDOLON luteum. Hudfon. FL Angl ed. 2. p. 258. 



GALEOPSIS Galeobdolon verticillis fexfloris ; involucro tetraphyllo. Lin, Syfi. V'egetab. p. 44 6. Spec» 

 PL p. 810. 



CARDIACA foliis petiolatis, cordatis, verticillis foliofis. Hdller. Htft: 275. 



LEONURUS Galeobdolon. Scopoli Fh Cam. n. 705. 



LAMIUM folio oblongo luteum. Bauh. Fin. 231. Lamium luteum. Ger. einac. 671. Parkins 606. 

 Rati Syn. p. 240. Yellow Archangel or Dead Nettle. 



GALEOPSIS Galeobdolon. Llghtfoot FL Scot. p. 310. 



RADIX perenfiis, inaequalis, fibras plurimas, majuf- 1 ROOT perennial, irregular, fending down feveral largifh 

 culas, in terram demittens. | -fibres. 



CAULES plures, tetragoni, hirfutuli, jloriferl fubere£ti, % STALKS feveral, four-cornered, fomewhat hirfute ; 

 pedales feu bipedales* Jierlles peracta floref- | thofe producing flowers nearly upright, a foot 



centia, in longum extendunturj et poftea humi-j: or two feet high; thofe deflitute of bloflbms, 



repent. | after the flowering is over, are extended to a 



■% great length, and afterwards creep on the 



t ground. 



fOLIA oppofita, petiolata, hirfutula, inaequaliter fer- J LEAVES oppofite, {landing on foot-flalks, (lightly hir- 

 rata, venofa, inferioribus cordatis, fuperioribus? fute, unevenly ferrated, and veiny; the lower 



ovatis, acutis, feffilibus; \ ones heart-ihaped, the upper ones ovate, 



% pointed, and feffile. 



^LORES verticillati, lutei. | FLOWERS growing in whirls, of a yellow colour. 



VERTICILLI fex, decern aut duodecim norh % WHIRLS containing from fix to ten or twelve flowers. 



CALYX: Involucrum verticillis fubjectum, foliolis tot | CALYX: an Involucrum placed under the whirls, com- 

 quot floribus, linearibus, acutis, rigidulis, ad | pofed of as many leaves as there are flowers, 



lentem ciliatis, fg. 2. t the leaves linear, pointed, fomewhat rigid, 



I when magnified fringed at the edge. fig. 2. 



CALYX: Perianthium moilophyllum, fubcampa- % CALYX : a Perianthium of ens leaf, fomewhat 

 nulatum, quinquedentatum b hirfutulunij lineist bell-fhaped, having five teeth, flightly hirfute, 



decern elevatis notatum, alternis obibletis, ^ marked with ten elevated lines, alternately 



dentibus fubsequalibus, acuminatis, fuperioret fainteft, the teeth nearly equal, having long 



erecto, diftanti, duobus inferioribus reflexo- 1 points, the uppermoft upright, and at a dii- 



patulis. fig. 1. % tance from the reft ; the two lowermoft fpread- 



I ing open and turned fomewhat back, fig, 1. 



COROLLA motiopetala, ringens ; tubus calyce paulof COROLLA monopetalous and ringent; tube a little 



longior, intus purpureus et pilofus ; labium^ longer than the calyx, purple and hairy within ; 



fuperlus e rectum, longum, fornicatum, villo- ■% upper lip upright, long, arched, villous, and 



fum, viililque ciliatum ; infierlus trifidum, Jaci-\| edged with woolly hairs $ the lowermoft di- 



niis inasqualibus, maculatis, media productiore. | vided into three unequal fegments which are 



fig. 3, 4. I fpotted, the middle one longeft. fig. 3, 4. 



STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, flava, fub| STAMINA : four Filaments tapering, of a yellow 

 labio fuperiore. Anthers bilobae, purpu-T colour, under the upper lip. Anther je 



rafcentesi Pollen albidum. fig. 5, 6. I com pofed of two lobes and purplifh. Pollen 



* whitifh. fig. 5, 6. 



PISTILLUM: Germen quadripartitum* Stylus fili- |PISTILLUM : German divided into four parts. Style 

 formis, purpureus. Stigma bifidum, acu- ^ filiform and purple. Stigma bifid and pointed. 



tum. fig. 7. |- fig. -j. 



SEMINA quatuor, e fufco nigricantia, nitidula, tri- 1 SEEDS four, of a brownifh black colour, fomewhat 

 quetra, apice truncata in fundo calycis. t mining, three cornered, cut prT at top, re- 



fig. 9. * maining in the bottom of the calyx, fig. 9. 



Linnjeus, though he enumerates this plant with the Galeopfis tribe, feems to think it not perfectly reconcileable 

 with the reft. Haller and Scopoli difagree in their opinions reflecting it; the one confidering it as a Cardiaca, 

 the other as a Leonurus. Mr. Hudson, whom we have followed in this inftance, in the lad edition of his Flora 

 Anglica, makes a feparate genus of it under the name of Galeobdolon ; we adopt the trivial name of Galeopfis inftead 

 luteum, with a view of making as little innovation as poffible in names. 



It is always found in woods and (hady places. In fome parts of England it is frequent, but not in others : we 

 find it tolerably plentiful in Charlton, and fome other Woods about town, flowering in May and June. 



The foliage is fometimes variegated, in which ftate I have obferved it make a beautiful appearance in a garden. 

 In cultivating this, as well as all other plants, attention fhould be paid to their natural place of growth. 



