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LXIII. LABIATE. 
[ Ballota . 
Tribe IV. Nepeteje. Cor. 2 -lipped. Stamens ascending or 
converging , shorter than the upper lip. (Gen. 8 — 20.) 
* Cal. equal or oblique, 5 — 10-toothed, not 2-lipped. (Gen. 
8—16.) 
f Stamens ascending, longer than the tube of the corolla. 
(Gen. 8 — 15.) 
8. Ballota Linn. Horehound. 
Cal. salver-shaped, equal, with 10 ribs and 5 broad mucro- 
n ate teeth, naked within. Cor. with the tube included: upper 
lip erect, concave ; lower one trifid, middle lobe the largest, 
emarginate. The two anterior stamens the longest. Cells of 
the anthers diverging, opening longitudinally. Achenes rounded 
at the end. — Named fiaWwrr], from fiaWu, to reject; on account 
of its disagreeable smell. 
1. B. nigra L. ( black H.) ; leaves ovate crenato-serrate, 
bracteas linear-subulate, teeth of the calyx shortly acuminate 
patent longer than the tube of the corolla. — a. cal. -tube shorter 
and stouter, the teeth broadly ovate short suddenly acuminate 
mucronate carinate reflexed. E. B. t. 46. B. foetida Lam. 
B. borealis Schvwigg. — 13. cal. -tube narrow and elongate 
dilated upwards, the teeth ovate gradually acuminate aristate 
erecto-patent. B. ruderalis Fries. 
Waste places near towns and villages, less frequent in the north. — 
/3. Bomere, Shropshire. I/.. 6 — 10. — Stems 2 — 3-ft. high. Flowers 
in whorls, purple, rarely white. Whole plant fetid. Fries, Leighton, 
and some others, pronounce the above varieties to be quite distinct 
species ; but Mr. Bentham does not consider them sufficiently marked 
to be noticed even as varieties. 
9. Leoneees Linn. Motherwort. 
Cal. with 5 or 10 ribs, equal, with 5 subulate teeth, the throat 
naked. Cor. with the upper lip nearly flat, very hairy above, 
entire; lower one patent, trifid. The two anterior statnens the 
longest. Anthers sprinkled with shining dots ; cells parallel, 
opening longitudinally. Achenes truncate. — Named from Xttu >■, 
a lion, and ovpa a tail; from a fancied resemblance in the plant 
to a lion’s tail. 
1. L. *CardiacaL. {common M.); leaves petiolate, lower ones 
palmately 5-cleft incise-toothed, upper cuneate-lanceolate 3- 
lobed, uppermost entire, tube of the corolla with an oblique 
ring. E. B. t. 286. 
Hedges and waste places, in several parts of England. About 
Edinburgh. South of Ireland, g. 7 — 9. — Stem 3ft. high, branched. 
