360 LABI AT AE (MINT FAMILY) 



and as long as the calyx, which is also hairy ; corolla lavender, 

 pink, or whitish, its tube not much exceeding the calyx-teeth, the 

 upper lip entire or only slightly notched, the lower lip three-lobed 

 and spreading ; stamens four, ascending, the longer pair exserted. 

 Seeds four small, ovoid, smooth nutlets. (Fig. 250.) 



Means of control 



Deep hoe-cutting, before seeds are developed or stolons take 

 root. 



BUGLEWEED 



Lycdpus virgtnicus, L. 



Other English names: Water Horehound, Ditch Horehound, Vir- 

 ginia Horehound, Buglewort, Paul's Betony. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 

 Time of bloom : July to September. 

 Seed-time: August to November. 

 Range: Labrador to British Columbia, 

 southward to Florida, Alabama, and 

 Missouri. 



Habitat : Wet meadows, banks of streams ; 

 often clogs ditches. 



A common weed, of which the most 

 troublesome part is the long, thread-like, 

 leafy, interlacing runners, reaching out in 

 all directions from the parent, sending up 

 new plants and making tangled mats. The 

 plant is used in medicine and brings three 

 or four cents a pound in the drug market. 

 It would be some satisfaction, in clearing out 

 a ditch, to make the weed itself pay for the 

 labor. For this purpose the herb must be 

 pulled entire while in full flower, and dried 

 in the shade. 



Stems six inches to two feet high, slender, 



obtusely four-sided, usuallv somewhat hairv. 

 FIG. 251. Bugle- T , , . , . , ,* 



weed (Lycopus mrgini- Leaves dark green or tinged with purple, 

 cus). x i. long ovate, firm, coarsely toothed, pointed 



