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LAB1ATJE. (MINT FAMILY.) 
somewhat approximated in terminal leafy racemes. (A Greek 
name for Mint, alluding to its agreeable odor.) 
1. II. pillcgioides, Pers. (American Pennyroyal.) Erect, 
branching, hairy ; leaves oblong-ovate, obscurely serrate, narrowed at 
the base, petioled, the floral similar; whorls few-flowered; corolla 
(bluish, pubescent) scarcely exceeding the calyx; sterile filaments 
tipped with abortive anthers, (l) (Cunila pulegioides, L.) — Open 
barren woods and dry fields. July - Sept. — Plant 6' -10' high, with 
nearly the taste and odor of the true Pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegiuin) 
of Europe. 
7. CUKILA, L. Dittany. 
Calyx ovate-tubular, equally 5 -toothed, hairy in the throat. 
Corolla 2 -lipped; upper lip erect, flattish, mostly notched; the 
lower spreading, somewhat equally 3-cleft. Stamens 2, erect, 
exserted, distant; no sterile filaments.—Perennials, with small 
white or purplish flowers, in corymbed cymes or close clusters. 
(An ancient Latin name, of unknown origin.) 
1. C. Mariana, L. (Common Dittany.) Stems tufted, cor- 
ymbosely branched; leaves smooth, ovate, serrate, rounded or heart- 
shaped at the base, nearly sessile; cymes peduncled, loosely corymb- 
ed; calyx strongly striate; middle lobe of the rose-colored corolla 
longer than the others. — Dry hills, S. New York and westward. 
July-Sept. — Plant 1° high, sprinkled with resinous and pellucid 
dots; the leaves P long, strongly straight-veined. 
8 . BLEPIULIA, Raf. Blephilia. 
Calyx ovoid-tubular, 13-nerved, 2 -lipped, naked in the throat; 
upper lip with 3 awned teeth, the lower with 3 nearly awnless 
teeth. Corolla inflated in the throat, strongly and nearly equally 
2 -lipped ; the upper lip erect, entire ; the lower spreading, 3 -cleft, 
with the lateral lobes ovate and rounded, larger than the oblong 
and notched middle one. Stamens 2 , ascending, exserted (the 
rudiments of the upper pair minute or none) ; anthers, &c., as in 
Monarda. — Perennial herbs, with nearly the foliage of Monarda , 
the small pale bluish-purple flowers crowded in axillary and ter¬ 
minal globose capitate whorls. (Name from (BXeepapls, the eye- 
lash, in reference to the hairy fringed bracts and calyx-teeth.) 
1. B. Cilistta, Raf. Somewhat downy; leaves almost sessile , 
oblong-ovate , narrowed at the base , whitish-downy underneath; outer 
bracts , like the uppermost floral leaves, ovate , acute, colored, cihate, 
