LAMIACE^E, OR LABIATE. 



Melissa pulegioides Linn. sp. ed. i. 593. Cunila pulegioides 

 Linn. sp. 30. Ziziphora pulegioides R. and S. i. 209. North 

 America, from Canada to Mexico. 



A slender herbaceous plant, about a foot high. Leaves | an inch 

 long and more, stalked, ovate, narrowing to each end, somewhat 

 serrated, flat, downy. Floral leaves of the same form. Whorls ax- 

 illary, 6-flowered. Corolla downy externally, as long as the calyx, the 

 teeth of which are subulate and ciliated. This plant has a great 

 reputation as an emmenagogue in North America where it is called 

 Pennyroyal. 



1020. Melissa Calamintha Linn, (the Calamint), and Melissa 

 officinalisZmw. (common Balm) are aromatic and slightly bitter, 

 and are used by country people in the form of tea, as a grate- 

 ful fever drink. 



1021. Scutellaria lateriflora Linn, has been extolled in North 

 America as a remedy for hydrophobia, but upon no good 

 grounds. 



NEPETA. 



Calyx tubular, 13-15-nerved, usually incurved, obliquely 

 5-toothed, seldom equal at the orifice. Corolla with the tube 

 slender at the base, enlarged at the throat; the upper lip straight, 

 somewhat concave, the lower spreading with the middle lobe, if 

 more than one, large and concave. Stamens didynamous, the 

 lower ones the shortest ; anthers usually approximated in pairs, 

 with the cells diverging and finally divaricating. 



1022. N. Cataria Linn, when bruised, appears to act as a real 

 aphrodisiac upon cats, its stimulating properties deserve to be 

 examined. It is said to have been advantageously exhibited in 

 amenorhcea. 



1023. N. Glechoma Benth. lab. 4-85. Glechoma hederacea 

 Linn. sp. 807. Eng. Bot. t. 853. By waysides, and in dry 

 ditches all over Europe and the north of Asia. (Ground Ivy.) 



A procumbent, grey, hairy, herbaceous plant, with long rooting stems. 

 Leaves stalked, roundish, crenated, deeply cordate so as to acquire a 

 reniform figure, green on each side. Floral leaves of the same form. 

 Whorls axillary, few-flowered. Bracts scarcely so long as the pedicel. 

 Calyx long, curved, villous, with the limb oblique, and the teeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, the upper being the largest. Corolla light greyish-blue, 

 3 times as long as the calyx. A favourite herb with country people 

 for making a tea against pectoral and other complaints ; it is said to 

 have been serviceable in hypochondriacal complaints and monomania. 

 Burnett. 



LEONURUS. 



Calyx 5-nerved, turbinate, nearly equal ; the mouth truncated, 

 with 5 subulate spiny teeth. Corolla with the tube enclosed, 

 naked, or obliquely ringed inside ; upper lip oblong, entire, 



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