PL ex . mo?i. 
9. URTICE^E. 18. Urtica. 
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Urtica racemifera major perennis, 139, 1. 
Urtica urens, Ger. em. 706,2. 
Urtica major vulgaris, and Urtica media sylvestris, Park . 440. 
Urtica dioica, Lin S. P. 1396. 
Common stinging-nettle. Great stinging-nettle. 
Banks and hedges; perennial; July and August. 
Root creeping ; herh dark green ; stem erect, 3 feet high ; 
stipules ovate, erect; racemes many-flowered. — Stalk dressed 
as hemp, for cordage, cloth, or paper ; young shoots eaten 
in spring as a potherb ; leaves recover paralytic limbs by 
whipping; one pressed against the roof of the mouth will 
stop a bleeding at the nose; juice dyes wool green; a de- 
coction of the herb with salt used to coagulate milk. 
2. Urtica urens. Slinging nettle . 
heaves opposite, elliptical, 3 or 5 -ribbed, acutely ser- 
rated; racemes in pairs, nearly simple, shorter than the 
petiole. 
Urtica minor, Raii Syn. 140, 2 ; Ger. em. 707, 3. 
Urtica urens, Lin. S. P. 1398. 
Small stinging-nettle . 
Fields and way-sides ; annual ; June to October. 
Roots fibrous ; herb light green ; stipule reflexed ; raceme 
androgynous. 
3. Urtica pilulifera . Pelletbearing nettle . 
Leaves opposite, ovate, broadly serrate ; fruitbearing 
heads globose, peduncled, in pairs. 
Urtica pi!ulife;a, Raii Syn. 140,3; Lin. S. P. 1395. 
Urtica Romana, Ger. em. 705, 1 ; Park. 440. 
Roman nettle. 
Ruins by the sea-side; annual; June and July. 
Root fibrous; stem blueish; leaves rarely rather heart- 
shape. 
III. 19. PARIETARIA. Pliny. Pellitory-of-the-walL 
Flowers 2 hermaphrodite and 1 female in a 6 or 8-leaved 
involucrum. — Herm. Perigonium 4-sepaled; stamens 4; 
filaments at first incurved, afterwards spreading elastically ; 
anthers double, opening elastically; ovary 1, above; stigma 
penecilliform ; utriculus crustaceous, shortly pedicelled, in 
the persistent sepales ; seed 1, inverse; corculum straight; 
cotyledons leaflike; radicle above. — F em. Like the herma- 
phrodite, but without the stamens.— Herb rather rough, 
juicy ; leaves alternate ; flowers glomerate, axillary. 
