Stachys Sylvatica. Hedge Nettle 



3TACHYS Lin. Gen. PL 



DlDYNAMIA GyMNOSPERMIA. 



Corolla lab. fuper. fornicatum, lab. inferius lateribus reflexum, intermedia 

 majore emargmata, Stamina deflorata verfus latera reflexa. 

 Raii Syn. Gen. 24. Suffructices et herbje verticillatje. 



STACHYS fyhatica verticillis fexfloris, foliis cordatis petiolatis. Lin. Syjl. Veg. p. 447. St. PL 811. 

 PL Suecic. 11. 526. 6 r ' ^ 



CARD1ACA foliis cordatis ferratis, verticillis nudis, fpicatis. Haller. hij, n. 216. 



STACHYS fyhatica. Scopoti PL Carniol n. 706. 



LAMIUM maximum fylvaticum fcetidum. Bauh. pin. 231. 



GALEOPSIS vera. Ger. emac. 709. 



GAL&OPSIS legitima Diofcoridis. Park. 608. Raii Syn. ed. p. 343. Hedge-Nettle. 



GALEOPSIS five urtica iners magna fcetidiflima. J. B. III. 853. 



Hud/on PI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 259. Lightfoot PL Scot. p. 312. 



RADIX perennis, repens. 



CAUJLIS erectus, pedalis ad tripedalem, quadrangula- 

 ris, hirfutus, ramofus. 



RAMI oppofiti, fuberecti, cauli fimiles. 



FOLIA petiolata, cordata, acuta, ferrata, venofa, utrin- 

 qtie hirfuta. 



PETIOLI hirfuti, longitudine foliorum. 



FLORES faturate at vivide purpurei, verticillati, laxe 

 fpicati, verticillis fexfloris, brevibus pedicel- 

 lis infidentibus ; ad fingulum geniculum fetas 

 duodecim, utrinque fex, floribus fubjeclge. 



CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, campanula- ' 

 turn, hirfutum, vifcidum, punctis prominulis 

 fcabrum, purpurafcens, quinquedentatum, 

 dentibus acutis, patentibns, fupremo paulo 

 longiore. Jig. 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, ringcns, purpurea, tubus bre- 

 viffimus, albus, fauce tenuior, apice ftrangu- 

 latus, et interne villofus ; Faux nitida, fub- 

 cylindracea, paululum incurvata, fuperne vil- 

 lis minimis adfperfa ; Labium fuperius ovatum, 

 obtufum, integerrimum, inferne concavum, 

 fuperne convexum, vifcidulum, Labium in- 

 ferius majus, trifidum ; albo pulchre varie- 

 gatum, lacinula intermedia fubemarginata, 

 replicata. fig. 2. 3. 4. 



STAMINA : Filamenta quatuor, quorum duo paulo 

 longiora, purpurea, nitida, medio paululum 

 incrafihta, et pilola ; Anthers primum ob- 

 fcure violacese, demum nigricantes ; Pollen 

 album. Jig* 5. 



PISTILLUM: Germen quadripartitum ; Stylus fili- 

 formis ; iitu et longitudine framinum ; Stig- 

 ma bifidum, acutum. fig. 6. y. 8. 



NECTARIUM : Glandida majufcula, totam bafin ger- 



minis cingens. Jig. 9. 

 PERICARP1UM nullum ; Calyx continens 

 SEMINA quatuor, ovata, angulata. fig. 10. 



ROOT perennial, and creeping. 



STALK upright, from one to three feet high, fquare, 



hirfute and branched. 

 BRANCHES oppofite, nearly like, the italk. 

 LEAVES ftanding on footftalks, heart-fhaped, pointed, 



ferrated, veiny, hirfute on both fides. 

 LEAF-STALKS hirfute, the length of the leaves. 

 FLOWERS of a deep but bright colour, growing 

 in whirls and forming a loofe fpike, about fix 

 flowers in each whirl, fitting on fhort flower- 

 ftalks, at each joint, twelve fetas or fine point- 

 ed leaves, fix on each fide, placed under the 

 flowers. 

 CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, bell-fhaped, 

 hirfute, vifcid, rough with little prominent 

 points, of a purplifh colour, having five point- 

 ed fpreading teeth, -of which the uppermoff. 

 is fomewhat the longer!' fig. 1. 

 COROLLA monopetalous, ringent, purple, the tube 

 very fhort, white, flenderer than the faux, 

 ftrangled at top where it is villous on the in- 

 fide ; Faux mining, fomewhat cylindrical, 

 bending a little down, on the upper part co- 

 vered with numerous fhort hairs ; the upper 

 Lip ovate, obtufe, entire, below concave, 

 above convex, and fomewhat vifcid, the lower 

 Lip large, trifid, beautifully variegated with 

 white, the middle fegment (lightly notched, 

 and having its fides folded back. fig. 2. 3. 4. 

 STAMINA : four Filaments, two of which are a 

 little longer than the others, purple, mining, 

 thickened a little in the middle and hairy ; 

 Anthers at firft of a dull violet colour, fi- 

 nally blackifh ; Pollen white, fig 5. 

 ■ PISTILLUM: Germen divided into four parts; Style 

 ; thread-fhaped, fituated with and of the fame 



length as the ftamina ; Stigma bifid, and 

 ; pointed, fig. 6. 7. 8. 



; NECTARY : a largife Gland furrounding the whole 



bafe of the germen. fig. 9. 

 [ SEED-VESSEL none, the Calyx containing. 

 \ SEEDS; four ovate and angular, fig. 10. 



In the parts of fructification, there is a confiderable fimilarity betwixt this fpecies and the paluftris, but in the 

 form of its leaves it differs very materially. 



It grows in almoft every fhady ditch about London and elfewhere, and flowers in June and July, its blofioms 

 have iufficient beauty to recommend them, and they might perhaps be more an object of admiration, did not the 

 plant, on being in the leaft bruifed, fmell difagreeably, if not bruifed, its fcent is rather of the agreeable kind. 



The Snail, excepted few animals, appear to relifh it. 



