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GLECHOMA HEDERACEA. 



Ground- Ivy. 



Class 'KTV. DiDYNAMiA.— Orf^er I. Gymnospermia. 

 Nat. Ord. Labiate. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, many-nerved, with five 

 nearly equal teeth . Corolla with the tube exserted ; 

 upper lip bifid ; lower lip three-lobed, the middle lobe 

 large, plane, emarginate. Anthers before bursting co- 

 hering in pairs, in the form of a cross. 



Spec. Char. Leaves reniform, crenate. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek Ktit.f/,ttiKiif(ri)s, 



f Hedera terrestris vulgaris. Batch. Pin. 306. 



I Hedera terrestris. Ger. Em. 856. Rail Hist. 567- Park. 



j Theatr. 677- 

 Calamintha humilior folio rotundiore. Ran Syn. 243. 

 Glechoma hederacea, Lin. Sj). PI. 807. Eng, Fl. iii. 



l^ p. 88. Eng. Bot. t. 853. 

 French .... Lierre terrestre ; Terrette. 



Italian Edera terrestre ; Ellera terrestre. 



Spanish Yedra terrestre. 



Portuguese. . . Eira terrestre. 

 German... . . . Gundermann ; Erdepheu. 



Dutch Hondsdraf ; Aardveil ; Onderhave, 



Danish Jord Vedbende. 



Swedish Jordrefvva. 



Latin 



Description. — The root is perennial, small, fibrous, and 

 creeping, sending out long runners. The stems are creeping, 

 with upright branches, slender, quadrangular, rather hairy and 

 about a foot in height. The leaves are opposite, petiolate, 

 downy, reniform, nearly round, crenate ; the petioles of the 

 lower leaves are long, channelled, hairy and spreading. The 

 flowers are disposed three or four together in t])e axils of the 

 leaves on short peduncles, at the base of which are a few 



