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VOL. III. 



2. Agastache scrophulariaefolia 



(Willd.) Kuntze. Figwort 

 Giant-Hyssop. Fig. 3591. 



Hyssopus scrophulariaefolius Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 



48. 1801. 

 Lophanthus scrophulariaefolius Benth. Bot. 



Reg. under pi. 1282. 1829. 

 Vleckia scrophulariaefolia Raf. Fl. Tell. 3 : 89. 



1836. 

 Agastache scrophulariaefolia Kuntze, Rev. 



Gen. PI. 511. 1891. 



Similar to the preceding species, but com- 

 monly taller, strong-scented, the obtusely 

 4-angled stem, the petioles and lower sur- 

 faces of the leaves more or less pubescent, 

 sometimes villous. Leaves nearly identical 

 with those of V. nepetoides in size and 

 outline; spike sometimes interrupted, 3'-: 8' 

 long ; bracts broadly ovate, abruptly acumi- 

 nate; calyx-teeth lanceolate or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, very acute or sometimes acuminate, 

 whitish or purplish; corolla purplish, 5 "-6" 

 long, considerably exceeding the calyx. 



In woods and thickets, New Hampshire to 

 Ontario, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ken- 

 tucky and Missouri. July-Oct. 



3. Agastache anethiodora (Nutt.) 



Britton. Fragrant Giant-Hyssop. 



Fig- 3592. 



Hyssopus anethiodorus Nutt. Fras. Cat. 1813. 

 Hyssopus anisatus Nutt. Gen. 2: 27. 1818. 

 Lopanthus anisatus Benth. Bot. Reg. under pi. 



1282. 1829. 



Vleckia anisata Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 89. 1836. 

 Vleckia anethiodora Greene, Mem. Torr. Club 



5: 282. 1894. 

 A. anethiodora Britton in Britt. & Brown, 111. 



Fl. 3: 85. 1898. 



Glabrous, or minutely puberulent; stem 

 rather slender, leafy, usually branched, 2- 

 4 high. Leaves ovate or triangular-ovate, 

 firm, mostly short-petioled, acute or acumi- 

 nate at the apex, truncate, obtuse or some- 

 times subcordate at the base, sharply ser- 

 rate, green above, pale and minutely canes- 

 cent beneath, 2'-3' long, anise-scented ; 

 spikes dense or interrupted, seldom 6' long ; 

 bracts broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate ; 

 calyx-teeth ovate to lanceolate, acute, pur- 

 ple; corolla blue, 4"-$" long, somewhat 

 exceeding the calyx. 



On prairies and plains, Minnesota to Mani- 

 toba, Alberta, Illinois, Nebraska and Colorado. 

 July-Sept. Anise-hyssop. 



9. MEEHANIA Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 32. 1894. 



A low pubescent spreading or decumbent herb, with long-petioled cordate leaves, trailing 

 leafy stolons, and large blue flowers in terminal secund bracted spikes. Calyx campanulate, 

 i5-nerved, slightly 2-lipped, its teeth all lanceolate, acute, the 3 upper longer than the 2 lower. 

 Corolla much exserted, puberulent without, pubescent within, the tube narrow at the base, 

 gradually widely ampliate into the throat, the limb 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-lobed, arched, the 

 lobes ovate, obtuse; lower lip about equalling the upper, spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 emarginate, broader than the lateral ones. Stamens 4, didynamous, all anther-bearing, 

 included, ascending under the upper lip, the upper pair longer than the lower; anthers 

 2-celled, the sacs nearly parallel. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style equally 2-cleft at the summit. 

 Nutlets oblong, smooth. [Named for Thomas ^eehan, of Philadelphia, 1826-1901, botanist 

 and horticulturist.] 



A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



