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nettle, fometimes fweet-fcented, and 

 fometimes Ilinking, with a large 

 Flower. 



11. Lamium Orientate, foliis ele- 

 ganter laciniatis. Tourn. Cor. Ealtern 

 Dead-nettle, with elegantly jagged 

 Leaves. 



12. Lamium Orifrit ale incanum, 

 Jlore albo, cian labio Juperiori crenato. 

 "Toum. Cor. Hoary Ealtern Dead- 

 nettle, with a white Flower, whofe 

 Upper-lip is notched. 



13. Lamium Orient ale incanunt, 

 jlore purpurcfccn/e, cum labio fuper cri 

 crenato. Town. Cor. Hoary Eaftem 

 Dead-nettle, with a purplifh Flower, 

 %vhofe Upper-lip is notched. 



14. Lamium Or it nt ale album la- 

 tifolium aitifimum. Town. Cor. Tali- 

 clt Eaftern Dead-nettle, with a broad 

 Leaf, and a white Flower. 



The firit, lecond, fixth, feventh, 

 eighth, and ninth Sorts are annual 

 Plants^ which grow wild on dry 

 Banks in feveral Parts of England ; 

 fo are feldom preferved but in Bo- 

 tanic Gardens, for the fake of Va- 

 riety. All thefe Sorts flower in 

 March and April, and their Seeds are 

 ripe foon after ; which if permitted 

 to fcatter, the Plants will come up 

 in great Plenty, and become trouble- 

 fome Weeds. The firft Sort is ufed 

 in Medicine ; but the Markets are 

 Supplied with it from the Fields. 



The fourth Sort is alfo very com- 

 mon under Hedges, in divers Parts 

 of England: this is alfo ufed in Me- 

 dicine. The Roots of this Sort 

 fpread very far under-ground ; and 

 where it once fixes, it is very diffi- 

 cult to eradicate, eipecially under 

 Hedges or Trees, where the Roots 

 of this Plant will intermix with thole 

 of the Plants, fo that they cannot be 

 •rafily taken out, without diflurbing 

 the Roots of the Plants. The third 

 Sort is a Variety of the fourth, from 



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which it differs in the Colour of the 

 Flower , which in this are of a bright 

 red Colour. Thefe two are abiding 

 Plants, which propagate themfelves 

 very faft by their creeping Roots. 



The fifth, tenth, and eleventh 

 Sorts are annual Plants, which do 

 not grow wild in England, but arc 

 equally hardy with thofe before- 

 mtntioned. Thefe flower early in 

 the Spring, and if their Seeds are 

 permitted to fcatter, the Plants will 

 come up in the Autumn in great 

 Plenty. The nfth Sort has no great 

 Beauty, fo is only preferved for Va- 

 riety; being very like our common 

 Dead-nettle, except in the Difference 

 of the Leaf. But the tenth Sort de- 

 ferves a Place in fome abject Part of 

 the Garden, for the Beauty of its 

 Leaves in Winter ; which are varie- 

 gated fomewhat like the common 

 Cyclamen, and make an Appear- 

 ance very like that Plant in Winter. 

 Thefe Leaves, in dry Weather, have 

 a mufky Scent on their being gently 

 rubbed ; but if they are bruifed, 

 they become {linking and difagree» 

 able. 



The twelfth, thirteenth, and four- 

 teenth Sorts are abiding Plants,which 

 will trail on the Ground, and fend 

 forth Roots from the Joints of their 

 Stalks,whereby theypropagate them- 

 felves very fall : fo where-ever they 

 are permitted to have room in a 

 •Garden, they mould be kept within 

 Compafs ; other wife they will fpread, 

 and become troublefome. 



LAMPSANA, Nipplewort. 

 The Cbarafiers are ; 



It hath a fcmiflofculous Flower, 

 cor? fifing of many Half-florets, upen 

 which the Ewbryoes fit, and are in' 

 eluded with- the?n in a multifid Cup, 

 (.cr;;i;}:vg of one Leaf which after' 

 ward bt:o:nes a freaked Veffelinclude- 

 if'g many narrow- pointed Seeds. 



The 



