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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
5. Yellow Deadnetcle. 
Lamium fiars ftavo. 
This is a plant of regular growth, and of great 
beauty. 
The root creeps under the fuiface, and has 
many long, thick fihres. 
The ftalks are fquare, light, hollow, and a 
foot or more in height ; they fcldom grow per- 
fectly erect, but trail or Hoop a little. 
The leaves ftand in pairs ; and are oblong, 
moderately broad, elegantly ierrated, and of a 
fine green. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful yel- 
low : they rife in conliderable number in the bo- 
foms ot the leaves. 
The feeds are oblong and brown. 
It is frequent in the dry ditches which furround 
woods, and elfewhere among bufhes. It flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lamiuw folio ohloytgo htteiim. 
Others, Lamuim Jin'vo florc. 
6. flemp-Deadiiettle. 
IJrtka joliis aiigujlis fcrnilis. 
The root is creeping and fibrous. 
'J'hc n-alk is fquare, hollow, light, and a foot 
or more in length. Its colour is brown ; and it 
is covered with a kind of bridles. 
The leaves ftand two at a joint ; and they 
have llender footftalks : they are oblong, nar- 
row, fharp-pointed, and (harply ferrated ; and 
they have on the under Tide very large ribs : they 
have been fuppofcd from this and from their 
colour, which is a duiky green, to rcfemble the 
fingle leaves of hemp. 
The flowers are large and gaping : they are 
of a bright red ; and they are placed in tubular 
cups, terminated by a kind of prickles : they 
fliand in tufts at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches. 
The feeds are large and blackilh. 
It is common about corn-fields, and on ground 
that has been dug. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Uriica acukata foliis ferralis. 
Others, Cannabis [puri'a '. 
7. Narrow- leaved Yellow Deadnettle. 
Lamium lulemn foliis angufiioriius ferralis. 
The root is creeping, white, and hung with 
many fibres. 
The ftalks are flender, fquare, and al'Out a 
foot high : they are rarely branched ; and their 
colour is a dark green or brown. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have flen- 
der footftalks : they are long, and very narrow, 
deeply feri'ated, and of a faint green. 
The flowers grow all the way up in the bofoms 
of the leaves ; and they are large, and of a pale 
yellow. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
We have it in woods in Sufl'ex.. It flowers in 
September. 
Kay calls it Lamium hittum foliis angujlijfmis. 
S. Great-flowered Hemp-Deadnettle. 
Lamium camiahino folio flore ma^no. 
■ The root is long and flender, and has manv 
fibres. ^ 
The ftalk is weak, fquare, branched, and two 
feet in length. 
The leaves are broad and oblong : thcv arc 
deeply jagged, fliarp-pointed, and of a 'very 
bright green. 
The flowers ftand about the tops of the 
branches in cluftcrs growing in the bofoms of the 
leaves: they are very large, and of a fnowy 
white. 
The feeds are large and blackifli. 
We have it about the edges of forefts. It 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Cannabis fpuria flore alio magno eli- 
ganli. 
CI. Hemp-Deadnettle with variegated flowers. 
Lamium folio mmiaiino floribus 'jariegatis. 
The root is compofed of numerous, lonn-, and 
flender fibres. °' 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, hairy, and two feet 
and a half in height. 
The -leaves ftand in pairs; and they are lont', 
narrow, of a dark green, and lharply fcrralcd."' 
The flowers are placed in a kind of fpikes at 
the tops of the ftalks, and bcautiluliy varif .^atcd 
with white, red, and yellow. ° 
It is common in the northern counties, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lamhim camiabino folio flore amflo 
luleo labia purpureo. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Indian Deadnetcle. 
Lamium foliis dijfeflis orientals. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, 
brown fibres, v.ery tough, and of a difagreeable 
fmell. 
The ftalk is upright, fquare, and of a brownifli 
colour. 
The leaves are placed in pairs at diftances ; 
and they are very beautiful. Their colour is a 
fine green ; and they are deeply divided at the 
edges. 
The flowers ftand in clufters in the bofoms of 
the upper leaves ; and are large and beautiful. 
The feeds are large and purplkfti. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and of the 
Greek iflands, and flowers in Auguft. 
Tournefort calls it Lamium criintale foliis ek- 
ganler laeiniatis. 
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