PI. ex. cor. 
32. LABIATAE. 135. Cardiaca. 
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XVII. 135. CARDIACA. Gesner. Mother-wort . 
Calyx bellshaped, 5-sided, 5-toothed, irregular, not 
lipped: mouth naked; teeth unequal, spinose, expanded, 
2 lower longest; corolla lipped, tube as long as the calyx ; 
galea upright, concave, not nicked ; outside very villous ; 
lip turned back, 3-lobed, lobes pointed, nearly equal ; sta- 
mens 4, didynamous; filaments villous; anthers speckled 
with shining dots ; ovary tomentose at the tip, margined. — 
Leaves cut; flowers in whirls, axillary. 
Cardiaca vulgaris . Common mother-wort . 
Leaves petioled ; lower leaves wedgeshape, ovate, 3-lobed, 
toothed ; upper leaves lanceolate, undivided. 
Cardiaca, Rail Syn. 239, 1; Park 41, 42 j Ger. 705, 1. 
Leonurus Cardiaca, Lin.S. P. 817. 
Cardiaca trilobata, Lamarck FI. Fr. 383. 
Stachys triloba, Stokes Bot. M. M. 339. 
Cardiaca vulgaris, Moench Meth. 401. 
Leonurus ruderalis, Salisb. Prod. 84. 
Chalk fields ; perennial ; July and August. 
Stem downy; villi bent back; leaves spreading, linear 
tomentose, veiny; whirls many-flowered; corolla white and 
woolly on the outside; red and variegated on the inside; 
anthers spotted with white.— Antispasmodic, the decoction 
used in palpitation of the heart, hysteria ; and also given to 
cattle against coughs and fever. 
XVIII. 136. BALLOTE. Dioscor. Bastard-horehound . 
Calyx bellshape, 5-sided, 10-ribbed, 5-toothed, regular; 
teeth equal ; corolla 2-lipped ; galea concave, crenated ; lip 
3-lobed ; side lobes roundish, middle lobe large, heart- 
shape, cut ; seeds triangular. — Flowers axillary ; whirls pe- 
duncled, many-flowered. 
Ballote foetida. Stinking bastard-hellebore . 
Leaves rather heartshape, ovate, crenate, hirsute ; calyx 
veined, enlarged above, rather truncated; teeth ovate, mu- 
cronated, spreading. 
Ballote, Raii Syn. 244, 1. 
Marrubium nigrum, Ger. em. 701, 1. 
Marrubium nigrum foetidum Ballote dictum, Park. 1230. 
Ballota nigra, Lin. S. P. ed. 1, 582. 
Mentha aqualica, FI. Dan. 673. 
Ballota foetida, De Cand. FI. Fr. 2576. 
Ballota sordida, Salisb. Prod. 83. 
Black horehound. Stinking horehound. 
Hedges and ruins; perennial; July and August. 
