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AGASTACHE . LABIATA 553 
NEPETA 
leaves and yellowish purplish or hlue flowers verticillate-clustered 
in dense or interrupted bracted terminal spikes. Calyx narrowly 
campanulate, somewhat oblique, slightly bilabiate, 5-toothed. 
Corolla strongly bilabiate, the tube as long as the calyx: upper 
lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower one spreading, 3-lobed, its middle 
lobe broader than the lateral ones and crenulate. Stamens all 
antheriferous, the upper pair longest: anthers 2-celled, their cells 
nearly parallel. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. 
A. urticifolia Kydberg. Lophanthus urticifolius Benth. Glabrous: 
stems erect and simple, 2-4 feet high: leaves thin, triangular-ovate, obtuse 
to acute at the apex, truncate to cordate at base, 1-3 inches long, coarsely 
and irregularly dentate, glabrous both sides, on petioles an inch or less 
long: spikes dense, 1-3 inches long, an inch or less thick, sessile: bracts 
linear-lanceolate, entire, or some of the lower ones ovate and more or less 
toothed: calyx narrow-campanulate, 4-5 lines long, its lanceolate acumin- 
ate-subulate teeth subequal, nearly as long as the tube, white or tinged 
with perpie: corolla light violet. or purplish to white, 6-7 lines long. In 
wet places in the mountains, Oregon to California and the Rocky Mts. 
A. occidentalis Heller. Wleckia occidentalis Piper. Glabrous below, 
puberulent above: stems strict, simple, 2-4 feet high: leaves triangular- 
ovate, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, cordate at base coarsely 
serrate-dentate, green and glabrous above, canescent beneath, 1-2 inches 
long, on petioles 6-12 lines long: spikes thick and dense, 1-4 inches long an 
inch .or more thick: calyx puberulent, narrow-campanulate, 4-5 lines 
long, its triangular-subulate very acute teeth not aslong as the tube, tinged 
with violet: corolla light violet, 5-6 lines long. Wet places in the high 
mountains of Washington. 
12 NEPETA L. Sp. 570. 
_Erect herbs with dentate or incised leaves and rather small 
flowers in verticillate clusters usually crowded in terminal spikes 
or axillary and cymose. Calyx tubular, somewhat oblique at the — 
mouth, 15-nerved, usually incurved, 5-toothed, scarcely bilabiate 
but the upper teeth usually longer than the lower. Corolla-tube 
enlarged above,.the limb strongly bilabiate: upper lip erect, entire, 
emarginate or 2-lobed: lower lip 3-lobed, the middle one larger 
than the lateral ones. Stamens 4, all antheriferous, ascending 
under the upper lip: anthers 2-celled, the cells divaricate. Nut- 
lets compressed-ovoid, smooth. 
N. Cararra L. Sp. 570. (Catnip) Densely tomentulose-canescent pale 
green perennial: stems stout, much brancbed, 2-3 feet high, the branches 
straight, ascending: leaves ovate to oblong, acute at the apex, coarsely 
crenate-dentate, mostly cordate at base, 1-3 inches long, greener above 
than below, all petioled: flowers in dense verticillastrate spikes at the 
ends of the branches and stems: bracts small, foliaceous: bractlets subulate: 
calyx densely pubescent, its teeth subulate the upper about one-half the 
length of the tube: corolla nearly white or pale purple, dark-dotted, pubes- 
cent outside, 5-6 lines long, its tube a little longer than the calyx, the 
broad middle lobe of the lower lip crenulate. In waste places, naturalized 
from Europe. 
13. GLECHOMA L. Sp. 578. 
Low diffuse creeping herbs with long-petioled crenate leaves 
