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leaves also being lobed, whereas the other or climbing 

 form has entire leaves on the flowering stems. The 

 plant under description is, of course, a member of a 

 different order, with a labiate corolla. The trailing 

 habit has gained for it the name Ground Ivy, but the 

 resemblance to the former ends there, and the leaves 

 are scalloped, not lobed. 



The second Latin name well describes the habit if 

 it refers to the trailing character. An earlier name 

 Glechoma is from the Greek Glechoma, Pennyroyal. 

 Nepeta is a pre-Linnean name bestowed by Pliny, 

 the etymology of which is uncertain, but it may 

 possibly be derived from Nepi, an Italian town, or 

 from Nepa, a scorpion, as it was regarded as a cure 

 for that animal's sting. 



Frequent in all parts of the British Isles, Ground 

 Ivy ascends to nearly 1400 ft. in Derbyshire, and 

 is found in Ireland and the Channel Islands. 



A common plant by the wayside in hedges on a 

 sloping bank, Ground Ivy grows also in woods, 

 copses, and in waste places. It grows on clay and 

 loam in damp oakwoods, and in neutral grassland, 

 on limestone in the drier parts of ashwoods, and on 

 limestone scrub, as well as on chalk in chalk grass- 

 land. It is very abundant on the rubble of the 

 Lincolnshire Oolite. 



Trailing in habit, the plant is prostrate at first, 

 then ascending. The stems form chain-like masses, 

 rooting below, and are slender, and branched. The 

 plant is downy as a rule. The leaves are rounded, 



