Galeopsis. | LVII, LABIATE. 357 
1. G.Ladanum, Linn. (fig. 803). Red Galeopsis.—An annual, 
seldom above 8 or 9 inches high, with very spreading, almost decumbent 
branches, and covered with a very short, soft down. Leaves shortly 
stalked, narrow-ovate or lanceolate, coarsely toothed. Flowers purple, 
6 to 10 together, in dense whorls in the upper axils, the upper ones forming 
a terminal head. Calyx-teeth usually very pointed, but shorter and less 
prickly than in G, Tetrahit, the tube of the corolla considerably longer 
than the calyx. 
In cultivated and waste places, all over Europe and Russian and western 
Asia. Frequent in southern England, decreasing in Scotland, local in east 
Ireland. #7. summer and autumn. It varies much in the breadth of the 
leaf, from ovate to nearly linear ; in the degree of hairiness, and in the size 
of the flower. 
2. G. ochroleuca, Lam. (fig. {804). Downy Galeopsis.—Very much 
like G. Ladanum, but more densely covered with soft almost silky hairs, 
which give the upper part a whitish hue, and the flowers are very 
- numerous, considerably larger, often abovean inch long, and of a pure yellow 
colour. G. dubia, Leers. . 
In cultivated and waste places, in temperate Europe, from Spain to 
Scandinavia, and eastward to south Russia. Confined to the central and 
northern counties of England and north Wales. - Fl. summer and autumn, 
It is very doubtful whether it be more than a variety of G. Ladanum, 
and it is even said that the one has been raised from the seeds of the 
other. 
3, G. Tetrahit, Linn. (fig. 805). Common Galeopsis, Hemp-nettle, 
—A coarse annual, 1 to 2 feet high or even more, although sometimes 
very dwarf, with a few spreading branches, green, with stiff, spreading 
hairs, and the stems swollen under the nodes. Leaves stalked, ovate, very 
pointed, and coarsely toothed. Flowers numerous, in close whorls in the 
axils of the upper leaves. Calyx-teeth long and almost prickly. Corolla, 
in the common variety, pale-purplish or white, exceedingly variable in size, 
sometimes not longer than the calycine teeth, more frequently twice that 
_ length, and sometimes much longer. 
In cultivated and waste places, and occasionally also in woods, ex- 
tending all over Europe and Russian Asia. Frequent in Britain. 7%. 
summer and autumn. G. versicolor, Curtis (speciosa, Miller), is a 
marked variety, often considered as a distinct species. It is usually a 
larger plant, and the flowers are also larger, and yellow with a purple spot 
on the lower lip; but in this, as in the purple variety, the size of the 
flower is very variable, and in some localities the two pass gradually one 
into the other. 
XIV. BALLOTA. BALLOTA. 
This genus, closely allied to the shorter-flowered Stachyses, differs 
chiefly in the calyx, which is enlarged at the top, so as to be nearly funnel- 
shaped, and ,in several exotic species, has 10 or even more teeth. The 
corolla, stamens, and nuts are nearly as in Sfachys. 
The exotic species belong almost exclusively to the Mediterranean region 
and western Asia. 
