MINT FAMILY. Labiatae. 



Horehound 



Marrubium 

 vulgar e 

 White 

 August- 

 September 



Motherwort 



Leonurus 

 Cardiaca 

 Pale lilac 

 June-August 



A white- wooll}^ bitter, and aromatic 

 perennial, branched at the base, with small 

 tubular dull white flowers circled about 

 the plant-stem at the leaf junctions. 

 Leaves round-ov^ate, stemmed, and scal- 

 lop-toothed. 1-2 feet high. Cultivated, 

 and escaped into waste places. Naturalized from Eu- 

 rope. The name from the Hebrew marrob, a bitter 

 juice. 



Perpendicular-growing decorative herbs, 

 without any particular odor, with deeply 

 cut leaves, and tiny flowers encircling the 

 plant-stem at the point of junction with 

 the leaves. The name from Xeaov, a lion, 

 and ovpd, tail — lion's tail, alluding to the form of the 

 flower-spike, but a poor simile. The upper lip of the 

 tiny, tubular but shallow, pale lilac flower bearded. 

 The green calyx characterized by five thornlike points; the 

 base of the calyx, when the flower is gone, marked with 

 a cross upon examination with a glass. The small leaves 

 about the flower-clusters conventionally arranged around 

 the tall stems, wedge-shaped toward the stem, and three- 

 pointed at the tip. The lower leaves rounded, slashed, 

 and long-stemmed, 2-4 feet high. A familiar peren- 

 nial naturalized from Europe, and common everywhere 

 in waste places about dwellings. 



Low spreading herbs found on waste 

 grounds. With tubular, bell-shaped flow- 

 ers, and small long-stemmed leaves below, 

 heart-shaped ones in the middle of the 

 stem, and others above directly connected 

 with the circling flower-clusters; all round- 

 toothed. The upper lip of the flower is 

 bearded, the lower one spotted ; all magenta or pale pur- 

 ple. A honey-bearing flower, cross-fertilized mostly by 

 honeybees and bumblebees, and frequently visited by 

 Boiiibus hifarius, commonly called the orange-banded 

 bumblebee. The foliage of the dead nettle is not sting- 

 ing to the touch. 6-18 inches high. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 



Dead Nettle 



Lamium 

 amplexicaule 

 Pale purple= 

 magenta 

 April- 

 September 



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