Lamium album. White Dead-N ettle. 
LAMIUM Limat Gen. Pl. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Corolla lab. fup. integrum, fornicatum ; lab. inf. 2-lobum, faux utrinque 
margine dentata. 
RaiiSyn. Gen. 14. Suffrutices et Herb;e verticillatje. 
LAMIUM album foliis cordatis, acuminatis, ferratis, petiolatis, verticillis vigintifloris. Lin. Syjl. Vegetal- 
p. 446. Sp. pl. p. 446. Flor. Suecic. p. 203. 
LAMIUM foliis cordatis, acutis, ferratis, verticillis multifloris. Haller, hifi. helv. n. 271. 
LAMIUM album. Scopoli FI. Carniol. n. 700. 
LAMIUM album non foetens folio oblongo. Bauhin. Pin. 231. 
LAMIUM album. Gerard emac. 782. 
LAMIUM vulgare album five Archangelicum flore albo. Parkinfon. 604. 
Rati Syn. 240. White Archangel or Dead-Nettle. 
Hudfon. Fl. Angl. ed. 1. p. 225. ed. 2. 255. 
Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 308. 
RADIX perennis, alba, geniculata, repens. 
CAULES plurimi, pedales, fuberefti, fimplices, bafi 
tenuiores, quadrati, fiftulofi, hirfutuli, in a- 
pricis ex rufo-purpurafcentes, furculi debiles, 
adfcendentes. 
FOLIA petiolata, cordata, acuta, deflexa, inaequaliter 
ferrata, apicibus denticulorum rufis introrfum 
verfis, venofa, fuperne et inferne hirfutula, 
fummis ut caules faepe coloratis, circa radi- 
cem folioli etiam occurrunt fubrotunda, cre- 
nulata. 
FLORES verticillati, majufculi, albi ; haud infrequenter 
etiam rubore quodam tindfi ; verticilli decem 
quindecem aut vigintiflori. 
CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, tubulofum, 
feflile, nervofum, quinquedentatum, denti- 
bus fetaceis, hirfutum, perfiftens, inferne ad 
bafin maculis purpureis notatum et bra&aea 
brevi lineari fuffultum, jig. x, 2. 
COROLLA monopetala, ringens ; tubus longitudine 
fere labii fuperioris, curvatus, antice inferne 
prominulus, fuperne intropreflus, faux inflata, 
margine utraque denticulis duobus plerumque 
notata, labium fuperius fornicatum, pilofum, 
emarginatum, aliquando etiam dentatum, li- 
neis duabus elevatis ad verticem coadunatis 
notatum, labium inferius bifidum, reflexum, 
crenulatum, ad bafin maculatum, jig. 3, 4. 
xvuu 1 perennial, white, jointed, and creeping. 
STALKS numerous, a foot high, nearly upright, un- 
branched, {lender at bottom, fquare, hollow, 
and {lightly hairy ; in expofed fituations, of a 
reddilh purple colour : the young flioots weak 
and riling upward. 
LEAVES Handing on foot-ftalks, heart-fliapcd, point- 
ed, hanging down, unequally ferrated ; the 
tips of the little teeth red and turned in- 
ward, veiny, above and beneath fomewhat 
hirfute ; the uppermoft leaves, as well as the 
; ftalks, frequently coloured ; the leaves about 
: the root are often fmall, round, and crenated. 
; FLOWERS growing in whirls, largilh, ofayellowilh 
white colour, not uncommonly tinged with 
red ; the whirls having ten, fifteen, or twen- 
ty flowers in them. 
CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, tubular, feflile, 
rib’d, hirfute and continuing, having five 
teeth, which are fetaceous ; on its lower fide, 
at bottom, marked with purple fpots, and 
fupported by a {hort linear bra&eal leaf,j%-. 1, 2. 
COROLLA monopetalous and ringent ; the tube 
nearly the length of the upper lip, and crook- 
ed, anteriorly prominent below, and prefled 
in above ; the mouth inflated, and marked 
generally on each fide with two little teeth ; 
the upper lip arched, hairy, with a flight 
notch, and fometimes indented, difiinguiflied 
by two elevated lines, which unite at the 
crown ; the inferior lip bifid, turned back, 
{lightly notched, and fpotted at bottom, 
jig. 3, 4. 
STAMINA: four Filaments, filiform, white, the 
tips villous, a little thickned, and bent in- 
ward: Anthers purple and hairy ; Pollen 
yellow, jig. 5. 
PISTILLUM : Germen divided into four, jig. 6 , fur- 
rounded by a gland, jig. 7. Style filiform, 
of the fame length and fituation as the Stami- 
na : Stigma bifid and acute, jig. 8, 9. 
SEEDS four, in the bottom of the Calyx, three corner- 
ed, with a little appendage at bottom, jig-. 10. 
THE White Dead-Nettle or Archangel , is one of our earliefl: fpring plants, ornamenting our banks in Aoril 
and May ; and is much reforted to by Bees for the fake of its honey, which isfecreted into the bottom of the tube 
in confiderable plenty, by a little gland furrounding the bafe of the germen. 
The flowers have been particularly celebrated in uterine fluors, and other female weakneffes ; asalfoin diforders 
of the lungs ; but they appear to be of very weak virtue : Lewis's Difp. part. 2. p. 16- 
The bruifed leaves are recommended to difcufs tumours, even of the fchrophulous kind ; Rutty's Mat Med. i 271 • 
but very little dependance is to be placed on fuch recommendations. There is fcarce a plant but what (if we mav 
believe the antients) poflefles fome wonderfully healing power of this kind. \ j 
Like the other Lamiums, it has a difagreeable fmell when bruifed. 
Boys make whiftles of the ftalks. 
In the fouth of France, it is faid to occur with a purple flower. I have frequently found it flip-htlv tinned „4 
The Phalxna Cbryjitis, Burned Bra/s MM, Lin. Faun. Suecic. p. 3,:. ^ 
Sweden the leaves are eaten in the fpring as a pot-herb ; Lin. Flor. Suecica. ' ’ ' nd m 
Fanned 2 1 Cr£epinS -P erennial root ’ and bein S a P laut vvhich c attle diflike, it {hould be extirpated by the 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, filiformia, alba, 
apicibus villofis, paululum incraflatis et in- 
curvatis : Anthers purpureae, hirfutae ; 
Pollen flavum, jig. 5. 
PISTILLUM: Germen quadrifidum, jig-. 6, glandu- 
la cin&urn, jig. 7: Stylus filiformis longi- 
tudine et fitu Staminum : Stigma bifidum 
acutum, jig. 8, 9. 
SEMINA quatuor, in fundo calycis, trigona, appendi- 
culata, jig. 10, 
