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G A L E O P S I S Tetrahit.
Red Hemp-Nettle.
D ID TN A M 1 A Gymnofpermia.
Gen. Char. Upper lip of the corolla llightly notched,
vaulted; lower lip with two teeth on its upper lide.
Spec. Char. Stem fwelled below the joints. Upper
whorls crowded together. Calyx pungent.
Syn. Galeopfis Tetrahit. Linn. Sp. PI. 810. Hud/.
FI. An. 257. With. Bot. Arr. 608. Relh. Cant. 228.
Lamium cannabino folio vulgare. Rail Syn. 240.
-A- TROUBLESOME weed in corn-fields, gardens, be. on
a gravelly foil, but being ftrictly annual is eafily eradicated before
flowering. The ftem is quadrangular, but much fwelled
below 2 or 3 of the lowermoft joints. Every partis rough with
very lharp, but not venomous, prickles, and the calyx-teeth are
very pungent. The herb has a ftrong, not aromatic, odour
when bruifed. The corolla varies much in fize and colour,
from purple to white, but the bafe of the lip feldom lofes its
elegant dark ftreaks. The antheræ are Angularly two-lobed,
and hairy.
Dr. Smith found at Matlock in 1788 a remarkable variety,
whofe terminal flowers were always regularly 4-cleft and falver-
fhaped, with 4 equal ftamina, while all the reft had their proper
form, as mentioned in his édition of Linn. Flo. Lapponica,
p. 201.
The beautiful variety S of Hudfon, with a large yellowilh
flower, is fo remarkable, we {hall give a figure of it when it
comes in our way ; nor indeed are we quite certain of its not
being a diftinft fpecies.
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