The BRITISH HERBAL. 305 
GENUS XVIIi. 
D E A D N E T T L E. 
L A M lU M, 
THE flower is labiated, and is formed of a finc^le petal. The tubular parr ar the bafe is Ver/ 
(hort : th: opening of the mouth is wide, and is formed into two lips and a paUt?. The up- 
per lip is of an arched form, and undivided, and turns in a kind of arch : the lower lip is ihorter, 
and nipped at the end and ic turns back. The palate is inflated, mmprefTed, and terminated each 
way by a little jagg. The cup is tubular, and it is terminated by Hve briftles. The feeds are four 
after every flower and they are naked in the cup. 
Linn^us places this among the didynamia gymncfpimia % the flower having two threads longer 
than the other two, and feeds remaining naked in the cup without any capfule or particular covering. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. White Deadnettle. 
I- Lamium album vtdgare. 
The root is fibrous and creeping. 
The Halk is fquare, hollow, upright, not 
branched, aud a foot and half high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs ; and they are 
of a fine brigh"- green : they are oblong, broad, 
Iharp-pointed, and (h.irply ferrated. 
1 he flowt-rs Hand in the bofonis of the leaves ; 
and they are large and white, a little hairy, and 
diftipguilhedvery prettily by th-' black -^ges ul 
the buttons on thr fiLments, wliich in f< me man- 
ner mark the aiichmetical figure 8. 
The feeds are four after every flower ; and th y 
are blackilh. Thr whole plant has a lingular, 
but rot difagrceablt fmJl. 
It is common under Iiedg'-s, and in all culti- 
vatea ground. It ^'owcrs in June. 
C. bauhine calls it Lamim album non faUm 
folio oblongo. Others only Lamum album. Our 
common people call it Deadnettle, and Jivcb- 
avgel. 
The whole herb is fubafl:ringent. The roots, 
dried and powdered, are good in fluxes j but the 
principal virtue is in the flowers : thefe are at 
once fubaftringent and balfamick. A conferve 
made of them with fugar is excellent againft the 
fluor albiis. It is a fannily-medicine, but. very 
well defervcs to be received in the (hops. I have 
known great cures performed in this troublefome 
and f'bflinate complaint by this conferve, and a 
decoction of comfry root. 
2. Red Deadnettle. 
Lanmtm vulgare ruirum. 
The root is a little tuft of fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmall, roundifli, and in- 
dented : they ftand on (lender redifh footfl:aIks ; 
and are of a dufky green. 
The fl;alks are fquare and hollow : they are a 
foot long, but they do not fl;and upright : they 
lean and trail in the lower part upon the ground : 
they have ufually a few leaves about the bottom, 
like thofe from the root; and about two pairs of 
others, placed at diflrances, one pair near the 
bottom, the other near the top. At the fuin- 
mit there are two or three other pairs, among 
which rife the flowers. 
Thefe are fmail and red. 
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The feeds arc brown. 
It is common about gardens^ afid wherever 
ground has been dug. It flowers from Ap'il to 
October. 
C. Bauhine calls it L amium purpureum fat dum 
folio fubrotundo. Others only Lam-tmn rubnm. 
3, Red Deadnettle with divided leaves^ 
Lam'um rubrilm fohis diffeSJi:. 
The root is fibrous and brown. 
1 he firft kaves are pi iCed on flender foot" 
fl:alks ; and they arc broad, fhort and deeply di-' 
vided by about five irre}j:uiar indenting^:. 
Thr ftalk ii of a pale grctn, and not very firm, 
ten inches high, and hollow. 
The leaves are placea in pairs on (hort foot- 
ftalks ; and they are broad, fhort, aiid deeply di- 
vided. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves} 
and they are fmall and red. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is not uncommon on plowed land, and ic 
flowers in May 
Ray calls it Lamium ruhrum minus foliis pro- 
funde mcifis, 
4. Great Henbit: 
LamlUiri folio caukm amhiente. 
The root is fmall and fibrous. 
The' firfl: leaves are fupported on flender foot- 
flalks ■, and they arc broad, fhor", and waved at 
the edges : frequently alfo there rife a kind of 
fuckers from the root, each fupporting fix or 
eight of thefe leaves. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, hollow, and 
about five inches in length : they are not much 
branched, and they trail upon the ground. 
The leaves on thefe are unlike thofe from the 
root : two naturally grow at a joint ; but they 
unite, and form a kind of fingle roundifh leaf, 
through which the ftalk runs in a perfoliate 
manner. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale red : they 
ftand in the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feeds are oblong and brown. 
It is common on ground that has been plowed 
or dug It flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lamium folio caidcm ambientet 
Authors fpeak of a lefler fpecies i but it is only 
a variety. 
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