354 LABIATE. (.MINT FAMILY.) 



the bluish small slender corolla. — Rocky places, from St. Lawrence Co., Ncv 

 York, to Wisconsin along the Great Lakes, northward. May - Aug. 



2 2. CEDRONELLA, Mcench. Cedronella. 



Calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, many-nerved. Corolla ample, expanded 

 at the throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip flattish or concave, 2-lobed ; the lower 3- 

 cleft, spreading, the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending ; the lower pair 

 shorter. Anther-cells parallel. — Sweet-scented perennials, with pale purplish 

 flowers. (Name a diminutive of Kfbpiov, oil of Cedar, from the aromatic leaves 

 of the original species, C. triphylla, the Balm-of-Gilead of English gardens.) 



1. C. COrdata, Benth. Low, with slender runners, hairy ; leaves broadly 

 heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral shorter than the calyx ; whorls few- 

 flowered, at the summit of short ascending stems ; corolla hairy inside (1^' long) ; 

 stamens shorter than the upper lip. (Dracocephalum cordatum, Nutt.) — Low 

 shady banks, W. Penn. to Kentucky, and southward along the mountains. June. 



23. SYNANDEA, Nutt. Stnandra. 



Calyx bell-shaped, inflated, membranaceous, irregularly veiny, almost equally 

 4-toothed ! Corolla with a long tube, much expanded above and at the throat ; 

 the upper lip slightly arched, entire ; the lower spreading and 3-cleft, with ovate 

 lobes, the middle one broadest and notched at the end. Stamens 4, ascending : 

 filaments hairy : anthers approximate in pairs under the upper lip ; the two 

 upper each with one fertile and one smaller sterile cell, the latter cohering with 

 each other (whence the name ; from crvv, tor/ether, and dvrjp, for anther). 



1 . S. grandifl6ra, Nutt. — Shaded banks, Ohio, Kentucky, and south- 

 ward. June. — A perennial? hairy herb, 1° high. Lower leaves long-petioled, 

 broadly ovate, heart-shaped, crenate, thin ; the floral sessile, gradually reduced 

 to bracts, each with a single sessile flower. Corolla 1^' long, yellowish-white. 



24. PHYSOSTEGIA, Benth. False Dragon-head. 



Calyx nearly equally 5-toothed, obscurely 10-nerved, short- tubular or bell- 

 shaped, more or less enlarged and slightly inflated in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 form with a much inflated throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip erect, nearly entire ; 

 the lower 3-parted, spreading, small : its middle lobe larger, broad and rounded, 

 notched. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip: anthers approximate; 

 the cells parallel. — Smooth perennials, with upright wand-like stems, and ses- 

 sile lanceolate or oblong mostly serrate leaves. Flowers large and showy, rose 

 or flesh-color variegated with purple, opposite, crowded in simple or panicled 

 terminal leafless spikes. (Name from (pvaa, a bladder, and crrfyr), a covering.) 



1. P. Virginiana, Benth. Corolla 1' or more long, gaping, the upper 

 lip slightly arching ; calyx-tube oblong- or obconical-bell-shaped. (Dracoceph- 

 alum Virginianum, L.) — Wet banks, &c, W. New York to Wisconsin and 

 southward. July - Sept. — Varies from l°-4° high, stout or slender; the 

 leaves from oblong-obovate (the lower) to narrowly lanceolate, and from very 

 sharply toothed to nearly entire ; the flowers either crowded or scattered. 



