Copy 1, Volume 3

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • James Edward Smith
Date:
1824-1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    altered, and very abundantly. Of the varieties I know nothing but from Ray’s Synopsis. Doody's account of (3 rather indicates its belonging to this species than to the former. 291. GALEOBDOLON. Weasel-snout. Huds. 257. FI. Br. 631. Dill. Gen. 103. tA. Galeopsis. Linn. Gen. 292. Juss. 114. Cal. tubular, bell-shaped, permanent, with 5 spreading, un¬ equal, spinous-tipped teeth, shorter than the tube; the upper one erect, at some distance from the rest. Cor. ringent; tube cylindrical, the length of the calyx ; upper lip oval, vaulted, hairy, entire, fringed; lower shorter, in 3 oblong, acute, rather unequal, undivided segments, the middle one longest. Filam. awl-shaped, covered by the upper lip. Anth. of 2 roundish lobes. Germ, superior, 4-lobed. Style thread-shaped, the length and situation of the stamens. Stigma in 2 acute spreading segments. Seeds 4, short, triangular, abrupt, in the bottom of the open-mouthed calyx. Herbaceous, perennial, resembling a Lamium, with yellow Jlowers. 1. G. luteum. Yellow Weasel-snout. Yellow Arch¬ angel. G. luteum. Huds. 258. Fl.Br.631. Engl. Bot.v.W. t. 787. With. 530. Hook. Scot. 183. G. Galeopsis. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t.40. Galeopsis Galeobdolon. Linn. Sp. PI. 810. Dreves Bilderb.t. 20. FI. Dan. t. 1272. Leonurus Galeobdolon. Scop. Cam. v. 1.409. Willd. Sp. PI. v.3. ] 15. Cardiaca n. 275. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 120. Lamium luteum. Raii Syn. 240. Ger.Em.762. f. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.20.f. 2. Yellow Archangel. Pet. H. Brit. t. 33. f. 6. In shady rather moist situations, in groves or hedge-bottoms, not uncommon. Perennial. May. Root somewhat tuberous, moderately creeping. Habit very like Lamium album, and not at all resembling any Leonurus or Ga¬ leopsis. Stems 18 inches high, simple, leafy, covered with close deflexed hairs. Leaves stalked, ovate, acute, serrated, slightly hairy, bright green, various in breadth. Whorls numerous, each composed of many large, handsome, inodorous, yellow Jlowers, whose lower lip is spotted with red, the middle segment stained with orange-colour. Bracteas linear, shorter than the calyx.