(A) Motherwort (Leonurus Cardiaca) (European) 
is a simple, erect-stemmed mint growing from 2 to 
4 feet high. It has a very decorative effect, the leaves 
being large at the base of the stem and rapidly dimin¬ 
ishing as they approach the top; the lower ones are 
quite long-stemmed and all are palmately slashed. The 
flowers grow in round clusters surrounding the stem 
at the axils of the leaves. 
The numerous flowers composing these clusters have 
tiny, two-lipped, white, pink or purple corollas and 
minute stamens. Both the stem and the leaves have a 
woolly texture and the former are strongly veiried. 
Motherwort is commonly found about old country dwell¬ 
ings and along roadsides. We find it in bloom from 
June until August. It is a much more leafy species 
than most of the mints. 
(B) Hedge Nettle; Wound-wort (Stachys palus- 
tris) is a tall mint (1 to 3 feet) with a downy-bristly 
stem and purple, tubular, two-lipped flowers in a ter¬ 
minal spike and from the axils of the upper leaves; 
lower lip streaked and spotted. Common in moist 
ground from N. S. to Manitoba and southwards. 
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