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eyme-like axillary clusters, which are often grouped into 
terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx tubular, usually 2-lipped, 
persistent. Corolla usually 2-lipped. Stamens 4 (2 long and 
2 short) or only 2. Ovary free, with 4 deep lobes, which 
surround the base of the style. Fruit consisting of 4 nutiets, 
ripening inside the base of the calyx. 
I. NEPETA,-CATNIP, GROUND IVY. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, corolla-tube narrow below, wid- 
ened in the throat; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip notched, 
the lower 3-lobed, with the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, 
rising inside the upper lip. Perennial herbs. 
(N. Grecuoms), Grounp Ivy, GILL-OVER-THE-GROUND, CREEP- 
ING CHARLEY, Crow-vicTUALs, RoBIN-RUNAWAY. Creeping in 
damp places; leaves roundish kidney-shaped and crenate; corolla 
bluish purple, three times as long as the calyx. 
II. BRUNELLA, SELF-HEAL. 
Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, somewhat 10-ribbed, upper lip 
broad 3-toothed, the teeth short, lower lip with 2 longer 
teeth. Upper lip of the corolla upright, arched, and entire, 
the lower spreading, reflexed, fringed, and 3-cleft. Stamens 
4, reaching up under the upper lip, with the tips of the fila- 
ments 2-toothed, only one tooth anther-bearing. Perennials, 
with stems simple or nearly so, and sessile, 5-flowered 
flower-clusters in the axils of kidney-shaped bracts, the 
whole forming a spike or head. 
(B. vutGaris), SELF-HEAL, HEAL-ALL, CARPENTER-WEED. 
Leaves with petioles, ovate-oblong, either entire or toothed, often 
somewhat hairy; corolla usually blue or bluish, somewhat longer 
than the brown-purple calyx. 
Ill. LAMIUM, DEAD NETTLE. 
Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 5-veined, with 5 awl-pointed 
teeth of nearly equal length. Corolla with dilated throat, 
upper lip arched, middle lobe of the lower lp notched, the 
