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THE LABIATE FAMILY. 



V-\S 



Fig. 802. 



or nearly entire, their stalks as long as 

 the flowers. Flowers 6 to 15 together, 

 in close axillary whorls, forming a long, 

 interrupted, terminal, leafy spike. Calyx- 

 teeth almost prickly. Corolla pink or 

 nearly white, like that of a StacJiys, with 

 a rather short tube, and very hairy 

 upper lip. 



In waste places, hedges, on roadsides, 

 etc., in Europe and central and Russian 

 Asia ; not extending, however, far to the 

 northward. Indicated in several parts 

 of England and southern Scotland, but 

 with considerable doubts as to its being 

 really indigenous. Fl. end of summer. 



XVI. LAMIUM, LAMIUM. 



Hairy herbs, either annual or perennial, decumbent at the base ; the 

 lower leaves always stalked, ovate or orbicular, and toothed ; the flowers 

 in close axillary whorls, or the upper ones in a leafy head. Calyx as in 

 Stachys. Corolla-tube slender at the base, much enlarged at the 

 throat ; the upper lip erect or arched, slightly concave, entire or slightly 

 notched ; the lower spreading, with a broad middle lobe ; the two 

 lateral ones either smaller and pointed, or more often reduced to a 

 small tooth. Anthers hairy in all the British species except the 

 yellow L. 



A genus of several species, chiefly south European or central Asiatic, 

 generally distinguished either by the long, arched upper lip, or by the 

 smallness of the lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla. 



Annuals, with small flowers, in few, nearly terminal, leafy whorls. 



Floral leaves sessile, orbicular, obtusely crenate . . . . 1. Henhit L. 



Floral leaves shortly stalked, ovate, often pointed ... 2. Bed L. 

 Perennials, with rather large flowers in axillary whorls. 



Flowers white 3. White L. 



Flowers red . 4. Spotted L> 



Flowers yellow 5. Yellow L. 



