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l)ract> and calyx teeth of Hlcp/iillia accDunt for its name from 

 a word meaninij eyelash. 



(KMiera in the Lahiatae dediealed to hotani>l> are not nu- 

 meron>, bnl we must not o\erlook Monania which commen- 

 oralo Nicholas Moiiardes or Monartlus a Si)anish botanist 

 who li\ed in tiie latter part of the sixteenth centur\- and wrote 

 man\- ])ami)hlets on useful plants, especially those of the New 

 Wiiidd. There is also Colli iiS(Uiia. named for Peter C'ollinson 

 an [•",n,i;li>h hotanist of the time of Linnaeus, who did much 

 to make the plants of Eastern America known. J. S. El- 

 >holt/.. a German physician of the 17th century is remember- 

 ed in lilslioltzia a .i^enus with certain half-shurbhv forms ([uite 

 uiuisual amoni;- labiates. Mcchaiiia is the name given to a 

 i,M-oup set off from Ccdronclla to commemorate the name of 

 Thomas .Meehan one of the most acute and learned botanists 

 "f recent vears. Nor must we fori^et Tciicriuin which hears 

 the name of that ancient Teucer wiio legend says was founder 

 and king of Troy. He is reputed to have been the first to 

 u>e the plants of this genus medicinally. The true mint gen- 

 us. Mentha i> dedicated to a wholly mythical personage, 

 Mintlic. who according to Theophrastus was a nymph which 

 Proserpone turned into a mint i)lant. rcnlla is a Greek and 

 Latin proper name. 



As usual, there are. in this family, a number of generic 

 names whose deriyation i> unknown or imcertain. One of 

 these in Cuuila the name of the dittany. Wood says this is 

 an ancient name for the pennyroyal. The generic name of 

 the l)lack hoarhound. Hallota. means according to the same 

 author, "to reject," on account of its vile odor. Satitrcia. the 

 name of the summer saxory is said to be the ancient Patni 

 name which Wood says is derived from the Arabis satiir. 



