284 LABIATE. \_Nefeta. 



ISTEPETA Linn. 

 1. *N. Cataria Linn. — Cat Mint. 



Districts I. II. III. — V. VI. Til. VIII. IX. X. XL XII. 



Lat. 51f°-55J°. From South to North. Type, English-Grermanic. 



Lowland. Waste places, waysides, banks, and near nuns; 

 rare. Fl. July-August. 



I. By the old ahbey of Timoleague : Drwmmond i8ig — ^not 

 seen recently in Cork. — II. Near Clonmel, Tipperary {Miss S. 

 Gruhh) : Cyh.— 111. On the banks of the Nore between Thomas- 

 town and Inistiogue {Mr. BlashforS) : Tem/pleton MS. In Kil- 

 kenny, at Danesfort and BallykeefPe {Bev. S. Madden) ; near 

 Carlow {J. Morrison) : Cyl. — Y. Ditch near the Curragh of KiL- 

 dare, 1732 : Annot. in ThrelheU. Sandy fields about Eush and 

 Skerries : Ir. Flor. — VI. Eoadside north of the Shannon opposite 

 Limerick : Mach. Ra/r. Eoadside near BaUyvaughan, Clare : More 

 i860. West of Loughrea, Galway : Graham 1840. Near Ban- 

 varra, Galway, 1892; Levinge. — YII. Shannon Bridge, King's Co. : 

 Ir. Flor. Eoadside near Ballylucnane, Parsonstown {M. Bowd) : 

 Ree. Add. — VIII. Between Newport and Castlebar, Mayo : Ball 

 18 jg. Between Galway and Oughterard (i!/oo«) : Cyl. — IX. "I 

 found this about Perryborough, Eoscommon : Browne Fasoieulus, 

 Eoadside at Cong, Mayo : Wade Qallovid 1801 — still there in 

 1895 ; Miss M. F. JaoTcson. Eoadside at Bracknagh, Lough Eee : 

 B. ^ V. 188'j. — X. Banks of the Colebrooke river, Fermanagh 

 {T. 0. Smith); and — XI. Near Eowross Ferry {Mart): Bee. 

 Add. Waste ground near Port-na-blagh, Dunf anaghy : JSdrt 

 1880. — XII. Sandy hedge bank at Benone, Magilligan : Moore 

 MS. One plant on MagiUigan sand-hills, 1863 : Flor N.-K "Waste 

 places by the shore north of Ardglass, Down {Stewa/rt) : Bee. Add. 



There is reason to believe that in many of its Irish stations this 

 plant has occurred merely as an escape ; in others it has apparently 

 become extinct, and in all it is more or less obviously derived from 

 cultivation. 



2. N. Glechoma Benth. — Ground Ivy. 

 Glechoma hederaeea Linn. 



Districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. 

 Lat. 51^°-55i°- Throughout Ireland. Type, British. 



Hedge-banks, woods, &c. ; rather common. Fl. April-June. 



