. Flowers of the field. Botany. 396 LABIATE calyces are conspicuous.—Hedges and waste places ; rare and not indigenous.—Fl. July—September. Perennial. i6. Lamium (Dead-nettle).—Hairy herbs with leaves so closely resembling those of the Stinging Nettles that many persons are afraid to handle them, though the square stems in the case of the Dead-nettles, and the small, green flowers in spiked clusters in that of the Stinging Nettles, are sufficient to distinguish them from one another. The Dead - nettles liave their flowers in many-flowered whorls in the axils of leafy brads; caly:: tubular or b
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 396 LABIATE calyces are conspicuous.—Hedges and waste places ; rare and not indigenous.—Fl. July—September. Perennial. i6. Lamium (Dead-nettle).—Hairy herbs with leaves so closely resembling those of the Stinging Nettles that many persons are afraid to handle them, though the square stems in the case of the Dead-nettles, and the small, green flowers in spiked clusters in that of the Stinging Nettles, are sufficient to distinguish them from one another. The Dead - nettles liave their flowers in many-flowered whorls in the axils of leafy brads; caly:: tubular or bell-shaped, 5- toothed ; corolla with an inflated throat, arched tipper lip, 3-lobed lower lip; stamens 4, the 2 lowest the longest ; anthers generally hairy, bursting length- wise. (Name from the Greek latinos, the gullet, from the shape of the corolla.) I. L. amplexicaiilc (Henbit - nettle). — Sienz 4—10 in. high, branched from the base; loit'er leaves long-stalked, round- ish, deeply cut; upper sessile, amplexicaul, kidney-shaped ; flowers crimson, in distant whorls ; calyx small, very downy, with teeth converging in fruit; corolla with long, slender tube.—Dry waste ])laces ; common.— Fl. May---August. Annual. 2. L. molucellijMiiim (Intermediate Dead-nettle).—Intermediate between the preceding species and L. ptirpt'ireum, but most resembling the former ; stouter and more succulent ; calyx slightly hairy ; teeth much longer than the tube, not converging in fruit ;. LEOnCkus cardiaca {Common tlothej'juort).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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