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.\bout i,s species, natives of .\raerica. Besides the following, some 8 others occur in the south- 

 ern and southwestern States. Sometimes called Mock Pennyroyal. 



Teeth of the upper lip of the calyx triangrular; leaves serrate. i. //. pulegioides. 



Teeth of both lips of the calyx subulate; leaves entire. 



Calyx-teeth all nearly equal; annual. 2. If. Iiispida. 



Teeth of the lower lip nearly twice as lonfr as the upper; perennial. 3. //. Driimmondii. 



I. Hedeoma pulegioides (L,.) Pers. American Pennyroyal. (Fig. 3141.) 



Melissa pulegioides L. Sp. PI. 593. 1753. 

 Cuiiila pulegioides L. .Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 30. 1762. 

 Hedeoma pulegioides Vvrs. Syu. 2: 131. 1807. 



Annual; stem very slender, erect, much branched, 

 finely soft-pubescent, 6'-iS' high, the branches as- 

 cending. Leaves ovate to obovate-obloug, petioled, 

 sparingly serrate, mostly obtuse at the apex and nar- 

 rowed at the base, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent, 

 thin, yi'-iyi' long, 2"-S" wide, the upper smaller; 

 clusters few-flowered, axillary, rather loose; pedicels 

 pubescent, shorter than or equalling the calyx; calyx 

 pubescent, gibbous, oblong-ovoid in fruit, its 3 upper 

 teeth triangular, acute, not exceeding the 2 subu- 

 late hispid lower ones; corolla purple, about 3" long; 

 rudimentary stamens manifest, capitate at the sum- 

 mit, or rarely anther-bearing. 



In dry fields, Cape Breton Island to Ontario and Min- 

 nesota, south to Florida and Nebraska. Also called 

 Tick-weed and Squaw-mint. July-Sept. 



2. Hedeoma hispida Pursh. Rough Pennyroyal 



Hedeoma hispida Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 414. 1S14. 

 Hedeoma liiria Nutt. Gen. i: 16. 1818. 



Annual; stem erect, branched, slender, 3'-8' 

 high, pubescent, the branches erect-ascending, very 

 leafy and copiously flowered. Leaves linear, entire, 

 firm, sessile, or the lower short-petioled, blunt or 

 subacute at the apex, narrowed at the base, more or 

 less hispid- ciliate but otherwise mostlj- glabrous, 

 Yi'-V long, about i" wide, the lower much shorter 

 and smaller; clusters axillary, numerous, crowded, 

 several-flowered; jiedicels pubescent, shorter than 

 the calyx; bracts subulate, ver}' hispid, about 

 equalling the calyx; calyx oblong, gibbous, hispid, 

 its teeth all subulate, nearly equal in length, up- 

 wardly curved in fruit, about one-half as long as 

 the tube, the 2 lower ones somewhat narrower and 

 more hispid than the upper; corolla about 3" long, 

 bluish-purple; sterile stamens rudimentary or none. 



On dr\- plains, Illinois to the Northwest Territory, 

 Louisiana, Arkansas and Colorado. May-Aug. 



(Fig. 3142.) 



3. Hedeoma Drummondii Benth. Drum- 

 niond's Pennyroyal. (Fig. 3143.) 



H. Drummondii Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 368. 18^4. 

 H. ciliala Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. (IL) i: 183. 1847. 



Perennial from a wood}- base, with an ashy down 

 nearly' all over; stems much branched, slender, erect, 

 6'-iS' high, the branches ascending. Leaves oblong 

 or linear, entire short-petioled or sessile, obtuse at 

 the apex, narrowed at the base, 5"-io" long, i"-2^" 

 wide, the lowest shorter; clusters axillary, loosely 

 few-flowered; pedicels puberulent, about one-half as 

 long as the calyx and equalling or longer than the 

 subulate bracts; calyx cylindric oblong, hirsute, 

 slightly gibbous, its teeth all subulate, upwardly 

 curved and connivent in fruit, the 2 lower nearly 

 twice as long as the 3 upper; corolla purple, 4"-6" 

 long; sterile stamens rudimentary or none. 



In dry soil, Nebraska and Colorado to Texas, Arizona 

 and northern Mexico. April-Aug. 



