1154 LAMIACEAE 
7. MEEHANIA Britton. Perennial decumbent or creeping herbs. Leaf- 
blades few, crenate. Flowers few in a l- sided raceme. Calyx nearly regular, 
15-ribbed, 5- lobed; lobes erect. Du 2- 
longer than the 2 lateral ones. Filaments not 
exceeding the upper corrolla-lip.—One species. 
1. M. baee Ao Britton. Stem an nd r 
ners 1.5-11 est spa pi nds ee leaf- 
r to 
rarely white, 2. cm. long; nutlets about 2 
mm. long. [Cedronella c cordata Benth. NU oe various provinces N of 
Coastal Plain, N. C. to Tenn., Ky., and Pa.—Spr.- 
8. NEPETA L. Annual or perennial, erect, branching herbs. Leaf-blades 
toothed or ineised. wers in axillary elusters whieh are sometimes borne in 
lobed: lo 
slightly longer than the lower. ee 2-lipped: 
upper lip erect: lower lip spreading, the larger 
middle lobe toothed. Filaments relatively slender, 
usually filiform.——A mount 150 species, Eurasian. 
1. N. Cataria L. Plant pale-green, 3-11 dm. 
tall, e ene -pubeseent: leaf-blades ovate to tri- 
angular-ov 4—7 em. ae erenate or Mig 
crenate, Dis eordate: ealyx 5-6 mm. long; 
lobes subulate or lanceolate- dads corolla 
pale, va ds ted, 6-7 mm. long: n cd about 1 m ong.— (CAT-MINT. 
CATNIP.) —W aste- Mem du woods, and roadsides, uis pore Ga. to 
La., Kans., Minn. and N. B. Nat of Eu.—Sum.—fall. 
9. GLECOMA L. Perennial creeping herbs. Leaf-blades toothed. Flow- 
ers in axillary clusters. Calyx slightly 2- epee 15-ribbed, 5-lobed: lobes 
unequal, relatively short. Corolla 2-lippe 
upper lip erect: lower "E ci eading, the noo: 
middle lobe notched. laments relatively 
slender.—About 6 species, dm 
G. hederacea L. Plant dark-green, the 
Rua 1-11 dm. long, hirsute: leaf-blades 
reniform to suborbieular, uti em. i nou 
ate: cal 
nutlets o uA mm E [Nepeta 
| —7 ‘oh 
subulate-tipped: coroll TN or ae 10-15 
mm. long: 
Glechoma "Benth .] — Gro á 
THE-GROUND. )— Bänke a thickets, cedi 3 NOUS Ga. to Kans., Ont., and 
Newf. Nat. —Spr. 
