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serrate, soft, downy leaves ; and large, pale yellow flowers. — Sandy 

 cornfields ; rare. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



4 G. specibsa (Large-flowered Hemp-nettle). — A large, stout, 

 hispid plant, 2 — 3 feet high, with stem swollen at its nodes ; leaves 

 long stalked, oblong-ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate ; corolla 

 large, yellow, usually with a broad red spot on the lower lip, tube 

 much longer than the calyx, upper lip arched, as broad as long. — 

 Cornfields; frequent. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



5. G. Tetrahit (Common 

 Hemp-nettle). — A closely- 

 allied species, not reaching 

 so great a height, with more 

 strongly ribbed calyx, with 

 teeth as long as its tube, 

 and a smaller, generally 

 rose-colour and white 

 corolla, . its tube not longer 

 than the calyx, and its upper 

 lip flatter and longer than 

 it is broad. — Cornfields ; 

 common. — Fl. July — Sep- 

 tember. Annual. 



* 1 5. LeonTjrus (Mother- 

 wort). — Erect, herbaceous 

 plants, with lobed leaves; 

 dense, distant, axillary 

 whorls of small flowers; 

 calyx bell-shaped, with 5 

 prickly, spreading teeth ; 

 corolla with the upper lip 

 nearly flat, very hairy above ; 

 anthers sprinkled with hard, 

 shining dots, bursting 

 lengthwise. (Name from 

 the Greek leon, a lion, oura, a tail, from some fancied resemblance 

 in the plant.) 



1.* L. Cardiaca (Common Motherwort). — Distinguished from 

 all British plants of the Order by its radical leaves which are on 

 long, slender stalks, and are deeply palmately 3 — 5-lobed. The 

 stem is 2 — 4 feet high, branched mainly below, and very leafy. 

 The upper leaves are narrow and entire, or nearly so, and, when 

 not in flower, the plant resembles Mugwort {Artemisia vulgaris) 

 in habit. The- flowers are pink, and their whorls of prickly 



gale6psis tetrahit (Common Hemp-nettle). 



