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LAMIACEAE. 



1. Leonunis sibiricus L. Sibe- 

 rian Motherwort or Lion 's-tail. 

 (Fig. 347.) Biennial, puberulent or 

 glabrate; stem 2°-6° high. Leaves 

 long-petioled, 3-parted into ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cleft 

 and incised segments, the lobes lan- 

 ceolate or linear, acute; the upper- 

 most linear or lanceolate; clusters 

 dense, usually all axillary; calyx 

 eampanulate, 3" long, glabrous or 

 puberulent ; corolla purple or red, 

 puberulent without, 4"-6" long. 



Frequent in waste grounds and 

 along roads. Naturalized. Native of 

 eastern Asia. Naturalized in the West 

 Indies, and in Delaware and Pennsyl- 

 vania. Flowers from spring to autumn, 



Leonurus Cardiaca L., Mother- 

 wort, also European, differs in hav- 

 ing the leaves palmately 3-5-cleft. 

 It is listed by Lefroy and recorded 

 by Eeade as found in fields. 



LEONOTIS E. Br. 



Annual or perennial caulescent herbs or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite, 

 broad, toothed, petioled, the flowers short-pedicelled in dense whorls. Calyx- 

 tube 10-nerved, oblique at the mouth, its lobes 8-10, unequal, bristle-tipped. 

 Corolla yellow, orange or scarlet, 2-lipped, the tube dilated above, curved; 

 upper lip erect, rather long; lower lip with 3 lobes, the middle lobe scarcely 

 longer than the lateral. Stamens 4; filaments all anther-bearing; anthers 

 2-celled; sacs diverging. Nutlets 3-angled, smooth. [Greek, lion's-ear.j 

 About 12 African species. Type species: Leonotis Leonitis (L.) E. Br, 



1. Leonotis nepetaefdlia E. Br. 



Tall Leonotis. Liox 's-ear. (Fig. 

 348.) Annual, softly pubescent. Stems 

 l°-6° tall, rather stout, simple or 

 branched; leaves ovate or ovate-del- 

 toid, 14'-5' long, coarsely crenate, 

 cuneate or subcordate at the base ; 

 clusters dense, about 2' in diameter; 

 pedicels about 1" long; calyx puberu- 

 lent, becoming about 1' long, its tube 

 reticulated above the middle, its lobes 

 8, awn-tipped; corolla scarlet or 

 orange-yellow, about 1' long, villous- 

 hirsute, its tube curved, the upper lip 

 as long as the tube, the lower lip 

 much shorter than the upper, with 

 3 narrow lobes; nutlets IV' long, 

 angled. [PMomis nepetaefoUa L.] 



Frequent in waste and cultivated 

 grounds. Naturalized. Native of the 

 Old World tropics. Naturalized in the 

 southern United States, the West Indies 

 and tropical continental America. 



