L A MI U M maculatum.
Spotted Dead-nettle,
D1DYNAMIA Gymnospermia.
Gen, Char. Cal, 5-cleft, its teeth awl-shaped, spreading.
Upper lip ,o f the Corolla undivided, vaulted;
lower 2- lo h e d ; orifice inflated, toothed at each
side.
S pec, Char. Leaves heartshaped, pointed, deeply
serrated. W h o r ls ten-flowered,
S yn. Lamium maculatum. Linn, Sp. PI. 809. A it,
JJort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 3 , 3 9 3 -
F o u n d interspersed with L. album, t. 768, on a “bank in a
Jane near Redland Court not far from Bristol, by Mrs. Vaughan,
to whom we are obliged for fresh wild specimens. We formerly
gathered the same about Bayswater, but suspected it to be
the outcast of some botanic garden. It is perennial, flowering
in April, and is distinguished in the winter and early spring by
the large and elegant white spots, which render the radical
leaves nearly as beautiful and conspicuous as those of a Cyclamen,
The stem-leaves have scarcely any traces of these spots, and
they, as well as the whole habit of the plant, accord much with
L . album; but the flowers are only half as many in a whorl, and
of a deep crimson, beautifully speckled. There is no question
of the species being perfectly distinct, and we presume it must
foe truly wild in the place above mentioned, Throughout the
south of Europe it mostly takes place of the album, so common
with us.