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LABIATJE. (MINT FAMILY.) 
floral nearly similar; whorls remote, many-flowered; upper lip of 
the blue corolla erect, one third the length of the lower; style beard¬ 
ed. 1J.—Woodlands, New Jersey? and W. Penn.? southward.— 
Corolla long ; the lateral lobes deflexed, the middle notched. 
S. Clayt6ni, Ell., probably does not grow north of Virginia. 
S. officinalis, L., is the well-known Garden Sage. 
11. CEDRONELLA, Mcench. Cedronella. 
Calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, many-nerved. Corolla very 
ample, much expanded at the throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip flat- 
tish or concave, 2-lobed ; the lower 3-cleft, spreading, the middle 
lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, shorter than the upper lip ; 
the lower pair shorter than the other! Anthers 2-celled, the cells 
parallel. — Sweet-scented perennials, with pale purplish flowers. 
(Name a diminutive of icedpos , Cedar , from the aromatic leaves of 
the original species, C. triphylla, the Balm-of-Gilead of English 
gardens.) 
1. C. cor<lata, Benth. Low, creeping by slender runners, 
hairy ; leaves broadly heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral short¬ 
er than the calyx; whorls few-flowered, approximate at the summit 
of short ascending stems; corolla hairy inside, 1A ; long. (Draco- 
c6phalum corditum, JYutt.) — Low shady banks of streams, W. Penn, 
and southward, rare. June. 
12. IVEPETA, L. Cat-Mint. 
Calyx tubular, often incurved, obliquely 5-toothed. Corolla 
naked and dilated in the throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip rather 
concave, erect, notched or 2-cleft; the lower spreading, 3-cleft, 
the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper 
lip, the lower pair shorter ! Anthers approximate in pairs ; the 
cells divergent. — Perennial herbs. (A name used by Pliny, by 
Linnaeus thought to be derived from Nepet , a town in Tuscany.) 
§1. CatAria, Benth. — Clusters dense and many-flowered, forming 
interrupted spikes or racemes: upper floral leaves small and bract¬ 
like. 
1. IV. Cataria, L. (Catnip.) Downy, erect, branched; leaves 
heart-shaped oblong, deeply crenate, petioled, whitish-downy under¬ 
neath ; spiked racemes somewhat panicled; corolla whitish, dotted 
with purple, twice the length of the calyx. —Waste and cultivated 
grounds, a very common naturalized weed. July, Aug. 
§ 2. Glech6ma, L._ Floral leaves resembling the others , the axillary 
clusters loosely few flowered. 
