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GALEOPSIS VERSICOLOR. PARTICOLOURED GALEOPSIS. 
GALEOPSIS | Linz. Gen, P, DipyNAMIA OUMNOSPERSM PA 
Cor. labium fuperius fubcrenatum, fornicatum ; inferius trifidum ; 
faux utrinque dente.obtufiufculo, concavo, acuto. Lina. Syff. Nar. 
; mr ed. Gmel. 
Rait Sym. Gen. 14. SUFFRUTICES ET HERB# VERTICILLAT Z. 
GALEOPSIS verfcolor foliis ovatis acutis ferratis, tubo floris calyce multo longiore, 
GALEOPSIS Tetrahit. Linn. Sp. Pf. ed. 3. var. 8 
GALEOPSIS foliis ovato-lanceolatis, ferratis, caule hirfuto flore calycis quadruplo. Ha//, Hi. 269. 
LAMIUM cannabinum aculeatum flore fpeciofo luteo labiis purpureis. Pluk. Alm. 204. Un di. fcd. 
CANNABIS fpuria flore pallido labro purpureo elegante. Merr. Pin. 
LAMIUM cannabino folio, flore amplo luteo, labio purpureo. Rai Syn. ed. 3. p. 241. Fair-Flowered 
Nettle Hemp, or rather Hemp-Leaved Dead-Nettle with a particoloured flower. 

RADIX annua. a 
CAULIS fefquipedalis et ultra, erectus, ramofiffimus, 
i obtufe tetragonus, hirfutus, ad genicula in- 
craffatus. 
RAMI alterne oppofiti. 
FOLIA caulina ovata, acuta, ramorum ovato-lanceolata, 
oppofita, petiolata, fubacuminata, venofa, 
fuperne pilis mollibus hirfutula, inferne nudi- 
. ufcula, nervo medio venifque exceptis, ferrata, 
dentibus verfus bafin fenfim minoribus. 
PETIOLI hirfuti. 
FLORES magni, fpeciofi, verficolores, feffiles, verti- 
cillati, verticillis multifloris, fummis fubcon- 
tiguis. 
: PERIANTHIUM monophyllum, tubulatum, 
nervofum, hirfutum, quinquedentatum, den- 
tibus longitudine calycis, fubzequalibus, arif- 
tatis, pungentibus, ore ciliato, ciliis demum 
intus convergentibus, tubus feminibus matu- 
refcentibus, ventricofus evadit, fg. 1. 
COROLLA flava, calyce triplo fere longior, pilis 
~~ mollibus villofus, tubus cylindraceus, fuperne 
ampliatus, labium fuperius concavum, ex- 
terne pilis longis hirfutum, denticulatum, a 
tubo fulco tranfverfali divifum, labium infe- 
rus trifidum, lobis lateralibus ex inferiore 
parte albidis, intermedio emarginato pur- 
pureo, albo marginato, ad bafin faturate flavo 
venis rubris pulchre reticulato hic utrinque 
exferuntur cornicula duo obtuía, fig. 2. 
CALYX 
STAMINA: FiLAMENTA quatuor, alba, quorum duo 
breviora; ANTHER.£ didymz, primo rotun- 
date, demum acute, ciliate, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germina quatuor; Sry tus fubulatus; 
STIGMA bifidum, jig. 4. 
SEMINA quatuor, in fundo calycis, obtufe trigona, 
apice rotundata, nigricantia, jig. 5. 
ROOT annual. : 
STALK a foot and a half high or more, upright, very 
much branched, obtulely four-cornered, co- 
vered with ftrong rough hairs, thickened at 
the joints. 
BRANCHES alternately oppofite. 
LEAVES: of the flalk ovate and pointed, of the 
branches ovato-lanceolate, flanding on foot- 
ftalks, fomewhat long-pointed, veiny, above 
oo phe, 
{lightly hirfute from being covered d foft 
hairs, beneath almoft fmooth excepting the 
midrib and veins, ferrated; teeth towards the 
bafe gradually fmalleft. 
LEAF-STALKS hirfute. 
FLOWERS large, fhewy, particoloured, feffile, grow- 
ing in whorls, whorls many-flowered, the 
uppermoft nearly contiguous. 
a PERIANTHIUM Of one leaf, tubular, ribbed, 
hirfute, five-toothed, teeth the length of the 
calyx, nearly equal, ending in pungent awns, 
the mouth bearded, the hairs of which finally 
converge inwardly to a- point, the tube as 
the feeds ripen bellies out,. fg. 1. 
COROLLA yellow, nearly thrice the length of the 
calyx, covered with foft hairs; the tube cy- 
lindrical, enlarged above, the upper lip con- 
cave, befet on the outfide with long. hairs, 
toothed on the edge, divided from the tube 
by a tranfverfe groove, the lower lip divided 
into three fegments, the fide lobes on the 
lower part nearly white, the middle lobe 
purple edged with white, its bafe of a deep 
yellow colour beautifully marked with red 
veins in the form of net-work ; here rife two 
{mall blunt horns, one on each fide, fir. 2. 
STAMINA: four FiLAMENTS of a white colour, two 
long, two fhort; AnrHer# double, firft 
nearly round, finally pointed and edged witl 
hairs, fig. 3. | 
PISTILLUM: Germina four; SrYLE tapering; 
STIGMA bifid, fg. 4. 
§ SEEDS four in the bottom of the calyx, bluntly three- 
A cornered, roundifh at top, and nearly black, 
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CALYX: 
OL OLS SONS OOS Ss. Ox XO OX CX» 
POLO LOLOL OOS OLS OL OOOO OOO OOS 
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"There undoubtedly is in moft. points a great affinity betwixt this plant and the Ga/eopfes Terrahiz ; but as the 
characters in which they differ are as conitant as they are firikin 
g, we have thought it entitled to the rank of a 
fpecies, more efpecially as many of the old writers have been of the fame opinion, and feveral of the moderns. 
In its habit it is fhorter and more bufhy than the Ze/rabzz, its leaves are broader, and its flowers differ not 
only in colour but in fize; there are many parts of the country alfo in which the one is found abundantly, th 
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other not at all; and laftly, it comes up from feeds every year invariably the fame. 
The beauty of its flowers is fufficient to entitle it to a place in the Flower-Garden ; its flowering period is 
not of very long duration: in corn-fields, where 1t 1s often found too abundantly, like the Yerradit it 1s à very 
troublefome weed, the rough hairs with which the plant is covered proving highly injurious to the hands and 
arms of the reapers. 
In many parts of Yorkfhire we have feen this plant growing very plentifully among the corn; the fields about 
London are exempt from it. 
It flowers in July and ripens its feeds in Auguft; as thefe are produced in abundance and vegetate freely, 
fuch as wifh to have the plant in their poffeffion may fucceed in its culture without any difficulty, : 
