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L E O N U R U S Cardiaca.
Motherwort.
D ID Y N AM I A Gymncfpermia.
G en. Ch a r. Calyx 5-angled. Anther æ fprinkled
with fhining dots. Upper lip of the corolla fhaggy,
concave.
Spec. Ch a r . Stem-leaves lanceolate, 3-lobed.
Syn. Leonurus Cardiaca. Linn. Sp. PI. 817. HudJ.
FI. An. 261. With. Bot. Arr. 618. Relh. Cant.
232.
Cardiaca. Rail Syn. 239. Ger. em. 705.
J .T S proper fituation is on banks and under hedges in a gravelly
or calcareous foil, not on dunghills, except by accident, as
Mr. Woodward remarks. It occurs here and therein Norfolk
and Suffolk. Mr. Lightfoot found it in Monmouthlhire. Our
fpecimen grew in a lane near Combe wood, Surrey.
The root is at leafi. biennial, according to Mr. Relhan perennial.
Stem upright, 2 or 3 feet high, quadrangular and furrowed,
often purplilh, the angles downy. The greater part of
the leaves are lanceolate and acutely three-lobed, with fome
notches befides; but the uppermoft are undivided, and the
lowermoft very much and obtufely lobed and broad, fomething
like thofe of the goofeberry. Whorls of flowers numerous.
Calyx with 5 fharp fpreading teeth. Corolla whitifh externally,
elegantly ftained with paler and darker purple within. An-
therte, before- they burft, fprinkled with white globular points,
by which this genus is chiefly diftinguifhed from Phlomis, if
fuch a character be fufScient. The herb is bitter and tonic,
with no very pleafant though pungent fmell. y/ov /. i/gs Tiil-lir/ictt by fovei