﻿beach: Rev. R. Relhan. — Cumberland ; Langrigg, Broomfield: Mr. Hutch- 

 inson. — Derbysh. Handley: Mr. Coke. Mackworth : Mr. Pilkington. — 

 Devon ; Near the Rope-walk, Biddeford : Mr. Polwhele. Near Canonteign, 

 Cliudleigh, Lustleigh, North Bovery, and Teigngrace. FI. Devon. — Dorsetsh. 

 About dunghills, probably the outcast of gardens: Dr. Pulteney. — Here - 

 fordsh. Between Ledbury and Ross: Mr. Purton. — Kent; Cockset, in Os- 

 pringe, near Feversham: E. Jacob, Esq. — Lancashire; Near Southport: G. 

 Crosfield, Esq. Liverpool. — Leicestersh. Found sometimes in farm-yards: 

 Dr. Pulteney. — Norfolk ; In a lane between Lexharn and Newton: Gough’s 

 Camden. Earsham ; and in a hedge, and on an adjoining bank, near Ditch- 

 ingham : Mr. Woodward. Near Holkham: W. Borrfr, Esq. By the 

 wind-mill at Wortwell near Harleston : Rev. H. Tilney. Potter Fleigham, 

 on the road to Ludham : D. Turner, Esq. About Norwich : Sir J. E. Smith. 

 — Northumberland ; Naturalized in fields dt Spring Gardens near Newcastle: 

 N. J. Winch, Esq. Near Wycliffe: Rev. J. Harriman. — Notts; On the 

 right hand going into Barford from Nottingham ; on the left hand of Lenton 

 Field going to the Abbey-yard from Nottingham Park ; and near Brockstone in 

 a close by the road-side leading to Nuttal: Dr. Deering. — Somersetsh. By 

 the way-side at Chedder : Mr. E. Forster, jun. Waste ground near Bristol : 

 D. Turner, Esq. Near the village of Worle : Rutter’s Somerset, p. 322. — 

 Suffolk ; Lane near the Toll-gate, Bury : Sir T. G. Culeum. About Bungay : 

 Mr. Woodward. North Cove near Beccles: Mr. F. Turner, —Surrey ; In 

 a lane near Coombe Wood : Mr. Sowerby. — Sussex; Stopham Bridge near 

 Pulborough : W. Borrer, Esq. In Selsey Island near Chichester : Hudson. — 

 Warwicksh. King’s Coughton : Mr. Purton. — Worcestersh. Near Malvern : 

 Mr. Purton. — Yorksh. Between Tickhill and Worksop: Hudson. Lane near 

 Melmerby : Mr. Brunton. About Leeds: Rev. W. Woods. Village of 

 Scotton near Ivnaresborough : Rev. J. Dalton. Near Rotherham: Mr. L. 

 Langley, in Loud. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. ii. p. 270. Side of the river Don near 

 Potteric Car: Mr. S. Appleby, ibid. vol. v. p. 559. — WALES. Anglesey; 

 On old walls near Llanddyfnan Hall; on the Point near Beaumares: Rev. H. 

 Davies. — Flintsh. In a hedge on the right of the road leading from Huwarden 

 to Flolywell, about two miles and a half from Hawarden: Bingley. — SCOT- 

 LAND. In a shady walk behind Fisherrow, and in Collington Woods, near 

 Edinburgh: Mr. Mauchan. About Cragnethan Castle, Glasgow : Mr. Hop- 

 kirk. — IRELAND. Road-side between Cork and Foaty : Mr. Drummond. 



Perennial. — Flowers from June to September. 



Root fibrous, by some authors considered biennial. Stem 2 or 3 

 feet high, upright, branched, minutely downy, purplish, sharply 

 4-angled, with intermediate channels ; leafy. Leaves very numer- 

 ous, opposite, on long footstalks (petioles), dark green, somewhat 

 downy ; the lowermost broadest, and deeply jagged ; upper ones 

 sharply 3-lobed ; those about the summit spear-shaped and un- 

 divided. Whorls numerous, axillary, many-flowered. Bracteas 

 bristle-shaped. Calyx rigid, with sharp spreading teeth. Corolla 

 reddish-white, the upper lip clothed with dense, white, shaggy, 

 upright hairs ; lower lip deeper coloured, variegated, smooth, in 

 3 nearly equal, entire lobes. Filaments (fig. 5.) hairy. Anthers 

 brown, besprinkled on the outside with white opaque globules, 

 which look like enamel. 



The plant has a strong but not an agreeable smell, and a bitter 

 taste. It was formerly in use in palpitations of the heart, and in 

 that disease of the stomach called heartburn ; but its reputed virtues 

 are now little regarded ; yet hence originated its old appellation 

 of Curdiacu. 



