Nepeta. LABIATE. 377 



33. CEDRONELLA, Mcench. (Diminutive of Cedrus, the Cedar tree, 

 from the sweet-scented leaves of C. trip/tyfla of the Canaries and Madeira, the 

 Balm-of-Gilead of English gardens.) The following are the other species ; 

 sweet-odorous perennials ; with petioled leaves, and flesh-colored or purplish 

 flowers, iu summer. Meth. 411 ; Benth. Lab. 501. 



1. Tube of corolla little exserted beyond the ample calyx, its throat inflated : 

 stamens shorter than the upper lip : flowers rather few, loosely and almost simply 

 spicate. 



C. COrdata, Benth. 1. c. Low, hirsute-pubescent, producing long leafy runners : leaves 

 long-petioled, cordate, crenate ; the floral reduced to ovate bracts, each subtending 1 to 3 

 short-pedicelled minutely bracteolate flowers : calyx campanulate : corolla purplish, hairy 

 inside, over an inch long. Dracocephalum cordatum, Nutt. Gen. ii. 35. Moist shady banks, 

 W. Penn. to Kentucky and mountains of N. Carolina and Tennessee. 



2. Corolla slender, with tube exserted beyond the narrow calyx : stamens 

 exserted : erect herbs of the Mexican region ; with the verticillastrate glomerules 

 or condensed cymes interrupted-spicate in the manner of Lophanthus, but less 

 condensed. 



C. Mexicana, Benth. Puberulent or almost glabrous : stems 1 to 3 feet high : leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, or the lower ovate and cordate, crenate-dentate; lower floral sessile and 

 often entire ; upper ones lanceolate and reduced to short bracts of the many-flowered 

 spicate clusters : teeth of the purplish calyx subulate : corolla bright pink (an inch or 

 more long), thrice the length of the calyx. Dracocephalum Meximnum, HBK. Nov. Gen. 

 & Spec. ii. 322, t. 100. Gardoquia betonicoides, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxiv. misc. 80 ; Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3800. Mountains of S. Arizona, near Santa Cruz, Wright. A form with mainly 

 ovate and obtuse coarsely crenate leaves, resembling C. pallida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxii. t. 29, 

 but with (inch long) much exserted corolla. (Mex.) 



Var. cana, Gray. Pale and very minutely cinereous, or inclined to be so : leaves 

 smaller (half to inch and a half long), less toothed: corolla an inch long or sometimes 

 much smaller. Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 370. C. cana, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4018; Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 133, chiefly. New Mexico, Wriijlit, Bigelow, &c. A form with much smaller 

 (seemingly not well-developed) flowers is C.pallida, var., Torr. 1. c. and Hyptis spicata ? Torr. 

 1. c. 129. S. Arizona, Wriyht, Thnrber. (Adjacent Mex.) 



C. micrantha, Gray, 1. c. Puberulent : stems slender, branching above : leaves thin, 

 slender-petioled, coarsely crenate-dentate; the lower cordate-ovate, obtuse; upper ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong ; upper floral reduced to minute bracts and shorter than the calyx : 

 capitate clusters sessile, many-flowered, mostly approximate in a cylindrical naked spike : 

 calyx ovate-campanulate, less than 2 lines long, greenish; the triangular-subulate teeth 

 about half the length of the tube: corolla (whitish, barely 2 lines long) and stamens little 

 exserted. S. W. Texas, towards the border of New Mexico (station not recorded), \Vriyht. 

 Spikes 2 inches long. 



34. NEPETA, L. CAT-MINT. (Probably from the Etrurian city Nepete.) - 

 A large genus in the Old World ; two are naturalized weeds in the New, repre- 

 senting distinct sections, differing in habit and inflorescence, rather than in the 

 flowers, which are produced all summer. 



N. CATARIA, L. (CATNIP.) Erect, branched, tall, minutely tomentose : leaves ovate or 

 oblong and cordate, coarsely crenate, green above, canescent beneath: glomerate cymes 

 many-flowered, spicate-crowded at the extremity of the branches, subtended by small 

 floral leaves: bracts and calyx-teeth slender-subulate, soft: corolla whitish with some 

 dark dots ; the middle lobe of lower lip crenate-dentate. Common eastward, especially 

 near dwellings. (Nat. from Eu.) 



N. GLECHOMA, Benth. Procumbent or creeping, slender, somewhat pubescent, equally leafy 

 throughout : leaves long-petioled, reniform or round-cordate, coarsely crenate : flowers 2 or 



