LAMIUM intermedium.
Intermediate Dead-nettle.
DID YN AMI A Gymnospermia.
Gen. Char. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed; teeth
nearly equal. Corolla with its upper lip arched ;
lateral lobes of the lower lip minute, toothlike
or obsolete, rarely elongated. Anthers approximating
in pairs ; cells diverging, bursting longitudinally.
Spec. Char. Leaves obtuse, inciso-crenate; lower
ones stalked; upper reniform-cordate; uppermost
sessile, reniform-cuneate. Calyx-teeth longer
than their tube, hispid, always spreading. Tube
of the corolla naked within ; lateral lobes of the
lower lip with a small tooth. Nuts oblong.
Syn. Lamium intermedium. Fries Nov. FI. Suec.
ed. 1. 105. ed. 2. 192. Reich. Iconog. t. 722.
FI. Germ. Excurs. 321. Benth. Lab. 512. Drej.
FI. Hafn. 205. Hook. Brit. FI. ed. 5. 257.
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 233. Walp. Rep. Bot. v. 3.
804. Koch Syn. ed. 2. 648.
-A -LTH O U G H this plant was added to the list of our native
species so recently as the year 1836, it is found to be very
common throughout the greater part of Scotland, and has also
been gathered by Mr. John Ball in the county of Sligo in Ireland.
The credit of being the first British botanist who distinguished
it from its allies is due to Dr. N. Tyacke, who in-
troduced it to the notice of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
on the 12th May, 1836, and also then pointed out its distinctive
characters." See the ‘ First Annual Report ’ of that
Society; page 27.
It seems probable that this Dead-nettle has been passed by