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1. Red Galeopsis. Galeopsis Ladanum, Linn. (Fig. 798.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 884.) 



An annual, seldom above 8 or 9 inches 

 high, with very spreading, almost de- 

 cumbent 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 the 

 common G. ; the tube of the corolla con- 

 siderably longer than the calyx. 



In cultivated and waste places, all over 

 Europe and Russian and western Asia. 

 Frequent in southern England, decreas- 

 ing northward and eastward, but occurs 

 also in Ireland. Fl. summer and autumn. 

 It varies much in the breadth of the leaf, 

 from ovate to nearly linear ; in the de- 

 gree of hairiness, and in the size of the flower. 



Fig. 798. 



2. Downy Galeopsis. Galeopsis oohroleuca, Lam. 



(Fig. 799.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2353.) 



Very much like the red G., but more 

 densely covered with soft, almost silky 

 hairs, which givethe upper part a whitish 

 hue, and the flowers are more numerous, 

 considerably larger, often above an inch 

 long, and of a pale yellow colour. 



In cultivated and waste places, in tem- 

 perate Europe, from Spain to Scandi- 

 navia, and eastward to south Hussia. 

 Very local in Britain, and chiefly, if not 

 exclusively, in the north of England. 

 Fl. summer and autumn. It is very 

 doubtful whether it be more than a va- 

 riety of the red G., and it is even said 

 that the one has been raised from the 



seeds of the other. 



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Fig. 799. 



