LAMIUM (the old name used by Pliny, probably from laimos, a throat, on account of the shape of the corolla). Dead Nettle. Including Galeobdolon. ORD. Labiatae. This genus comprises about forty species of annual or perennial hairy herbs, decumbent at the base, natives of Europe, North Africa, and extra-tropical Asia, and distinguished either by the long arched upper lip, or by the smallness of the lateral lobes of the lower lip, of the corolla. Leaves always stalked, ovate or orbicular, and toothed. The species are of no great horticultural value, and perhaps the only ones worth mentioning here are the following: LAMIUM Galeobdolon (Galeobdolon). fl. yellow, large, in six to ten-flowered whorls. May and June. l. ovate, acuminate, doubly crenated or serrated. Rootstock short, stoloniferous. Europe (Britain), West Siberia. Perennial. (Sy. En. B. 1085.) There is a pretty garden variety with golden-bronzy leaves, useful for rockwork or rustic borders. LAMIUM maculatum (spotted).* fl. usually purple, large; corolla throat suddenly dilated. June to September. l. cordate, crenate or serrate, wrinkled, with a medium white stripe. A pretty dwarf-growing, free-flowering, border plant. Europe, North Africa, North and West Asia. Naturalised in some parts of Britain. Perennial. (Sy. En. B. 1087.) A form of this (aureum), with golden-coloured foliage, is useful as a rock or border plant, and also for spring bedding.