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MELISSA, L. 



527. M. officinalis, L. Common Balm. 



Alien ; now established on the borders of gardens and in waste 

 spots near houses. Rather common. July to September. 

 c. 1, Trevollard and Trehan, St. Stephens. Tideford. Near a ruinous 

 house between Heskyn and Cutcrew Mills. Roadside between 

 Clapper Bridge and Bhmts, in considerable quantity and at 

 some distance from any house. 

 11. Between Torpoint and Wilcove ; Keys, Fl. iii. 188. Between 

 Forder aud Rame Church, and near ^Viggle, Rame. Tregantle. 

 A single small plant on top of a wall between Millbrook and 

 Weu", seemingly sprung from seed at the spot, 1872. Pill, near 

 Saltash. Kiugsmill. Elbridge. Tinnel. 

 D. III. Hall (Holes) Hole, Beer Alston, October, 1848 ; G. Maio, in Bot. 

 Gaz. i. 307. Between Lophill and Milton ; Keys, Fl. ih. 

 Honicknowle. Between Whitleigh and Budshead. 

 IV. Stoneybridge and Fursdon, Egg Buckland. Roadside, Plym- 

 bridge. By Larkham Lane, Plympton St. Mary, near farm- 

 houses. Elburton. 

 V. About Netton farm-house, and between that and the Parsonage- 

 house, Revelstoke. Winston. Wiverton. Yealm Bridge, by 

 the road to Plympton. 

 VI. By the mill-stream at Orcherton. Ermington, in a bushy waste 



spot, opposite the Vicarage-house. 

 Although established in so many places, it has as yet, in almost all 

 cases, only got a little way off from the spots where it was originally 

 grown. 



An infusion of this herb was formerly much drunk by the country folk, 

 and they still consider its bruised leaves, with salt and honey, necessary 

 for ' seasonmg the bee-but,' or liive, before the young swarm is shaken 

 into it. 



Fu-st record : Maw, 1849. 



NEPETA, L. 



528. N. Cataria, L. Catmint. 



Denizen ; in waste or bushy spots, generally near houses. Very 

 rare. July to September. 

 0. I. Trevollard ; Keys, Fl. iii. 189 ; a single plant on the border of 

 the Green, 1871. 

 II. Near ^lillbrook ; Mr. R. Oliver, Jacob, Fl. part 7 ; in fair 

 quantity, growmg mostly from between stones placed against 

 a bank near a house, Avith Smyrnium and Artemisia Abshi- 

 thium in the neighbourhood, 1873. 



