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L A M I U M album.
White Dead-nettle.
DI B Y NA MI A Gymrwfpermia.
G e n . C h a r . Cal. 5-cleft, its teeth awl-fhaped, fpread-
ing. Upper lip of the Corolla undivided, vaulted ;
lower 2-lobed; orifice inflated, toothed at each
fide.
S p e c . C h a r . Leaves heart-fhaped, pointed, flalked.
flowers about twenty in a whorl.
S y n . Lamium album. Linn. Sp. Pi. 809. Sm. FI.
Brit. 6 2 6 . Hudf. 255. With. 526. Hull. 131.
Relh. 226. Sibth. 183. Abbot. 128. Curt. Lond.
fafc. 2. t. 45. Mart. FI. Rujl. t. 26. Raii Syn. 240.
C oM M O N everywhere in wafte ground, by road tides, and
the borders of fields, where it flowers abundantly in May and
June, and again for the moft part in autumn.
The root is creeping and perennial. Stems about. 12 or 18
inches high, fquare, leafy. Leaves in pairs, all at nearly equal
diftances, on flalks, ftrongly ferrated, veiny, a little hairy.
Whorls in the bofoms of the leaves, each of about twenty
flowers, which are large, hairy, cream-coloured and handfome,
much frequented by bees, and often gathered by children for
the fake of the honey, which may be fucked out of the tube.
Stamina hairy, with black antherse. The toothed margin of
the tube of the corolla affords an excellent effential character
for this genus.
The name Dead-nettle has been given from the refemblance
of the leaves to the Stinging-nettle, which to a common obferver
is confiderable, and has been univerfally noticed. The flowers
are fometimes found tinged with ablulh-colour in the neighbourhood
of Norwich. The herb is ufelefs in agriculture, and in
general not eaten by domeftic animals, except perhaps the hard-
feeding laborious afs.