NEPETA 40 T 



**S. sTLVESTRis, Linn. Sp. PI. 24 (1753). 



S. elata^ Host, Fl. Austr. i. 24, ,8'. deserta, Scliangin in Ledeb. Ind. Sem. 

 Hort. Dorpat. 6 (1824). Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 1. c, f. i. Nyman, 57(1. 



Casual. By the railwaj^ near Maidenhead. 



Kerner (1. c. 103) considers it to be a hybrid of S. nemorosa and S. pratensis- 



NEPETA, Linn. Gen. n. 629 [^Cataria, Tonrnefort, Inst. t. 95). 



N. Cataria, Linn. Sp. PI. 570 (1753X Cat-mint. 



Cataria herba, Dodoens, Pempt. 99. Mentha Felina sen Cattaria, Ger. 

 Em. 682. 



Top. Bot. 319. Syme, E. B. vii. 38, t. 1054. Nyman, 585. FL Oxf. 234. 



Native. Septal. Hedges, waysides, borders of fields, and sometimes in 

 chalky cornfields, evincing a marked partiality for limestone or 

 chalky soil. Local and rather uncommon. Absent from con- 

 siderable areas on the clay and heaths. P. July-September. 



First record. Sonning, Mr. S. Rudge, Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. Published 

 as iV. cataria by Dr. Noehden in Mavors Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Cumnor. Buckland. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Tubney, F. W. Bennett. In the Cow 



Lane, West Hagbourn Moor, Louslcy in Bussell's Cat. Cothill. 

 Dry Sandford. Pusey. Frilford. Abingdon. Besilsleigh. 

 Near Radley. Lowbury. Blewbury. Lockinge. Chilton. 

 Upton. Shippon. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. Between Hampstead Norris and 



Blewbury, ious/ei/j ?• c. Moulsford. Pangbourn. Ashampstead. 

 Sulham. 



4. Kennet. North Heath, RusselVs Cat. Near Chieveley, W. M. 



Rogers. Mortimez*, Tufnail. Weston, Osmond. West Ilsley. 

 Theale. 



5. Loddon. Near Silent Pool, Penny. Sonning, Rudge. Shinfield, 



Tufnail. Frequent about Park Place, Stanton. Stubbing's 

 Heath. Maidenhead. Wargrave. Hurley. Bisham. 

 The young plants have something of the appearance of Ballota, but 

 the odour is quite different. Near Frilford a more deeply cut leaved 

 form was noticed ; this is the var. surincisa, Asch. Fl. Brandb. 519. 



The Cat-mint found in the watery places by the Thames, according 

 to Spencer's Complete British Traveller, 1771, probably refers to a Mint, 

 perhaps M. verticillata. 



Kepeta Cataria is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



M. Glechoma, Benth. Lab. 485 (1832). Ground Ivy. 



X. hederacea, Trev. Prosp. Fl. Eug. 26. Glechoma Hederacea, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 578. Hedera terrcstris, Gerard, 705. 

 Top. Bot. 319. Syme, E. B. vii. 40, t. 1050. Nyman, 587. Fl. Oxf. 235. 



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