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B. Flowers blue or violet :—5S. Sclarea, L., Sage; very 
fragrant, flowers very large, variegated with violet and 
white, bracts very large, red or violet; dry hills and 
vineyards; doubtfully wild in Southern Switzerland. S. 
pratensis, L., flowers large (about I in.), bright blue, bracts 
small, green, upper lip of corolla long, arched, viscid ; 
dry banks and road-sides, common. S. vertecdllata, L. ; 
flowers small, light blue, leaves cordate-triangular, often 
auricled ; road-sides, occasional. 
TO. NEPETA, 'L. 
Cymes axillary or terminal ; calyx 5-toothed; flowers 
small; corolla 2-lipped, middle lobe of lower lip large, 
upper lip truncate; stamens 4. 
N. Cataria, L., Cat-mint; flowers about 4 in., white 
spotted with purple, stem branched, leaves cordate-ovate, 
inciso-serrate, white and pubescent beneath ; banks, occa- 
sional. JV. zuda, L.; flowers small, white or violet, stem 
much branched, leaves cordate-oblong, pubescent, green 
on both sides ; rocky places; Southern Switzerland, Tirol, 
Piedmont, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. JV. lanceolata, DC. (Vepe- 
tella, All.); strongly scented, flowers white, calyx-teeth 
lanceolate-subulate, leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate ; 
high; Southern Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. J. 
Glechoma, Benth. (Glechoma hederacea, L.), Ground Ivy ; 
flowers blue; everywhere. 
11. DRACOCEPHALUM, L. 
Flowers large, violet ; cymes axillary, collected into ter- 
minal spikes; calyx 2-lipped, 5-toothed ; corolla ringent ; 
stamens 4. Alpine. : 
D. Ruyschiana, L.; leaves linear-lanceolate, undivided, 
entire, stem erect, 4-12 in.; alpine pastures; Southern 
