WHITE GROUP 



Catnip 



Nepeta Cataria Family, Mint. Color of corolla, white, dotted 



with purple. The plant is covered with a great deal of whitish 

 down. Leaves, heart-shaped, coarsely toothed, petioled. Per- 

 ennial, 2 to 3 feet high. Flowers, whorled in terminal cymes or 

 spikes. Escaped from gardens where it used to be cultivated. 



A common weed, near old houses in neglected dooryards. 

 Catnip-tea is an old-time remedy for colds and fevers. 

 The leaves are greatly liked by pussy. 



Motherwort 



Leonurus Marrubiastrum. — Family, Mint. Corolla, shorter than 

 the sharp calyx teeth. Divided as in other mints. Flowers in 

 whorls, in the axils of leaves on rough stems, stout, and much 

 branched, 2 to 5 feet high. * Leaves, very coarsely toothed, with 

 short petioles, ovate, or the upper ones lance-shaped. June to 

 September. 



Waste places, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. 



Wild Bergamot 



Monarda fistulbsa. — Family, Mint. Color, white or purple (see 

 Purple Flowers, p. 340). Calyx-tube, hairy within. Corolla, with 

 a long tube (1 inch or more) and 2-lipped border, the upper lip 

 erect, notched, the lower 3-lobed, with the middle lobe narrow 

 and notched. Stamens, 2, protruding. Leaves, those near the 

 flower colored like the corolla; all ovate, lance-shaped, sharply 

 toothed. July and August. 



A rather coarse herb, 4 or 5 feet high, with a minty fra- 

 grance about its leaves and flowers. The flower bracts and 

 leaves just under the flower are whitish or crimson. 



In different varieties of the wild bergamot the corolla 

 varies in color from a light pink to dark purple. These have 

 a wide range in woods, from Massachusetts and Vermont to 

 Florida and westward. 



Bugle Weed 



Lycopus •virginicus (a "wolf's foot, from some fancied likeness 

 of the leaves"). — Family, Mint. Color, white. Corolla, nearly 

 equally 4-cleft, bell-shaped. Calyx, with 4 acute, short teeth. 

 2 good stamens. Leaves, opposite, petioled, the upper sessile, 

 tapering at both ends, regularly toothed, often purple. Flowers, 

 very small, in close whorls around the 4-angled, smooth, stiff, 

 upright stem, much shorter than the leaves among which they 



