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8256 Leaves ovate serrate, Bractes long leafy 
8257 Heads stalked in an involucre, Invol. lane, the length of flowers. Leaves ovate toothed 
8'258 Heads stalked in an involucre, Invol. lane, longer than flowers, Leaves oblong toothed narrowed at base 
8259 Heads opp. few-fl. without bractes, Pedunc. shorter than joints. Leaves cord, doubly serrate ; upper oval 
8260 Flowers in spiked 1-sided panicles on a two-parted peduncle. Leaves ovate 
8261 Flowers in stalked capitate cymes, Leaves of invol. 2 longer than calyx in fruit, Leaves oblong 
8262 Leaves ovate subcordate attenuate acutely crenate pubesc. spiked whorled terminal, Cal. 5-toothed 
8263 Flowers capitate, Invol. filiform hispid shorter than calyx of fruit. Lower leaves cordate 
826t Heads on a short peduncle. Leaves of invol. oblong lane. Cal. pubescent not closed with hairs 
8365 Stem leafy. Leaves ovate oblong crenat Bractes cordate, acuminate, Cal. pungent 
8266 Smooth, Segment of calyx ovate acute 
8267 Hirsute, Segment of calyx lanceolate cuspidate 
8268 Leaves cord, unequally finely serr. Orifice of cor. inflated. Lower lip .l-toothed on each side, Cal. colored 
8269 Leaves cord, rugose. Stem smooth, Cal. smooth the length of tube of corolla 
8270 Leaves cord, acute rugose and stems hairy, "Whorls many-flowered, Tooth of orifice solitary setaceous 
8271 Leaves cord, concave somewhat hoary, Orifice of cor. inflated.. Tube straight with two teeth on each side 
8272 Leaves cord, acuminate, Whorls 10-flowered 
8273 Leaves cord, acuminate serrate stalked, Whorls 20-flowered 
8274 Smooth, Leaves cordate crenate : floral subsessile. Teeth of calyx as long as cor. 
8275 Leaves stalked somewhat toothed : lower cordate ; upper ovate 
8276 Leaves stalked cordate blunt toothed ; upper close together. Stem naked below 
jS Leaves cut-toothed 
8277 Floral leaves sessile amplexicaul cut ; radical lobed 
8278 Leaves many-parted 
8279 Joints of stem equal. All the whorls remote. Leaves lanceolate 
8280 Joints of stem equal. Leaves ovate lanceolate serrate villous. Helmet crenate cut 
8281 Joints of stem thickened upwards. Upper whorls contiguous, Cal. pungent, Cor. little longer than calyx 
8282 Stem hispid. Joints thickened upwards. Cor. thrice as long as calyx. Helmet ventricose 
8283 All the leaves ovate. Involucre 4-leaved 
8284 Spike interrupted. Helmet entire, Middle segm. of lower lip emarg. Cal. smoothish 
8285 Spike oblong. Helmet entire. Middle segm. of lower lip crenate wavy, Cal. hairy, Bractes ciliated 
8286 Spike interrupted, Helmet bifid. Middle segm. of lower lip crenate, Tube downy incurvevl 
8287 Spike entire, Middle segm. of lower lip entire 
8288 Spike leafy at base, Helmet bifid 
8289 Spike leafy at base. Helmet entire 
8290 Spike leafv interrupted, Calyx villous at edge. Teeth subulate. Helmet obcordate 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
the use of hops, the leaves were put in ale, and being bitter, aromatic, and having a peculiar and very strong 
smell, were much used in popular medicine. It is now, however, seldom used. 
1259. Lamium. Lamia was a celebrated marine monster ; the flowers of this genus have a considerable 
resemblance to the grotesque figure of some beast. L. orvala is the only species admitted into the garden. 
The others are mostly ugly weeds. L. album, Ortie blanche, Fr., Taube Nessel, Ger., and Ortica morta or 
bianca, Ital, has a disagreeable smell when bruised, and though no cattle whatever will touch it, yet Linna-us 
says, the leaves are eaten in Sweden as a pot herb in spring. 
1260. Galeapsis. From yecX'/j, a weasel, and o-^ig, appearance. The flower has a grotesque figure, and may 
be likened to the form of a weasel, or, indeed, of any thing else. 
1261. Galeobdolon. A word with the same meaning as Galeopsis, which see. 
1262. Betonica. In Celtic botany is called Bentonic ; wherefore it appears, that Pliny gave too much way 
to conjecture, when he wrote that Betonica or Vetonica was so called from the Vetones, a people who dwelt 
at the foot of the Pyrenees. B. officinalis was formerly much used in medicine, but it is discarded from 
modern practice. When fresh it intoxicates. The leaves when dry excite sneezing. Sheep eat it, but goats 
refuse it. The roots are bitter and very nauseous j in a small dose they vorait and purge violently. This plant 
dyes wool of a very fine dark vellow color. 
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