No. 61. LYCOPUS. 27 



end acuminate^ surface rough, dotted beneath, calix 

 quadrifid, acute, shorter than the seeds. 



DESCRIPTION. Root perennial, creeping, and 

 fibrous, stem erect, commonly simple, somewhat rough, 

 with four furrows and four obtuse angles, leaves oppo- 

 site, sessile, acuminate, or attenuated and entire at both 

 ends, remote serrate in the middle, broad lanceolate, as 

 long as the internodes, somewhat rough, covered with 

 glandular dots beneathj flowers sessile, m small axillary 

 whorls, very small, two small subulate bracteas under 

 each flower, calix with four ovate-lanceolate and acute 

 segments, corolla white, tubular, with four small round 

 lobes, upper larger and notched, two stamina, hardly 

 exert, iiliform, style exert, four seeds longer than the 

 calix, obovate, compressed, crenate at the top. 



HISTORY. The genus Lycopns merely differs from 

 Mentha 





four. The name means Wolf-foot. This species must 

 form a peculiar sub-genus, which I call Euhemus^ 

 meaning good for the blood, distinguished from all the 

 other species by the/owr cleft^ short calyx, and crenulale 

 hng seeds. It affords many varieties, some of which 

 might even be deemed species, they are: 



1. Var. Gracilis. Stem simple, one or two feet high, 

 slender, leaves remote. ^ 



2. Var, Microphyhis. Rough, glaucous, leaves small, 



oval lanceolate, crowded, stem branched, six to ten 

 inches high. 



5. Var. Rube 



tinged M-ith red, crowded, whorls multifl ore. 



4. Var. Latifolius. Rough, glaucous, afoot high, leaves 

 ovate, with large teeth, very crowded, whorls multiflore, 

 seeds large, almost cristated above. 



5. Var. Sylvaticus. Stem smooth, two feet high, 

 often branched, flexuose, leaves subpetiolate, twice as 

 long as the internodes, oval or obovate, acuminate, with 

 large teeth. In the woods of Kentucky and Ohio. 



All these agree in the calix and seeds, as well as the 

 medical properties, and must "be distinguished from the 

 other species of the gerjus^ which have somewhat diffe- 

 rent properties, and maybe easily known, although their 

 habit is similar, by noticing the calix with Jive long and 



