384 LABIATE. [Nepeta. 



2. S. minor, L. Lesser Skull-cap. " Glabrous, leaves shortly 

 stalked obtuse mostly quite entire, lowest ones broadly ovate, 

 intermediate ones ovato-lanceolate cordate and somewhat hastate 

 at the base, upper and floral ones lanceolate rounded at the base, 

 flowers (small) solitary axillary opposite unilateral, corolla nearly 

 glabrous with the throat dilated, calyx downy without glands." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 324. E. B t. 524. 



In low, moist, heathy, boggy or muddy places, wet woods, sides of meadow- 

 drains, ditches, and on damp tillage-land ; not uncommon. Fl. July — October. 



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E. Med. — In Whitefield wood. Extremely abundant on Apse heath, growing 

 even amongst potatoes on newly turned-up land. In various parts of Sandown 

 level. Frequent on many parts of Lake common. Common about the foot of 

 Bleak down, around Lashmere pond, &c., 1843. [Boggy slope behind St. 

 Helens green, — also at Lane-eud, Bembridge, A. G. More, Esq. — Edrs.] 



W. Med. — [Moortown bog, Brighstone, — and the bog at Freshwater Gate, Dr. 

 JBell-Salter.— Edrs.'] 



Much smaller than the last in all its parts, seldom above 4 — 10 inches high, 

 except when drawn up amongst herbage to almost twice that height. Root slen- 

 der, pale straw-yellow, running far and wide with many long creeping branches 

 that spread in all directions. Stem erect, with 4 winged angles, more or less 

 branched, often copiously so from the very base, so as to be quite bushy, the 

 branches opposite, ramitied, purplish at the base, roughish with short stiff hairs. 

 Leaves numerous, opposite, dark green, ovato-oblong, cordate at the base, the 

 lowermost on extremely short petioles, the uppermost all hat sessile, their margins 

 slightly revolute and deflexed, roughish above with short bristly hairs, entire, the 

 lowermost only subhastate from an occasional blunt dentate sinuation or two near 

 the base. Flowers solitary in the axil of each leaf, on rather short, horizontal, 

 hairy pedicels at right angles to the leaves, hence second and approximating in 

 pairs, ^rd of an inch long, of a dilute pink or purplish colour, the lip prettily 

 speckled with rose-red. Bracts in pairs at the base of each pedicel, very minute, 

 setaceous. Calyx about a line in length, almost bell-shaped, bristly. Corolla 

 much longer than the calyx, downy, the throat hairy ; upper lip in 3 very distinct 

 nearly equal lobes, the middle one arched and enclosing the style and stamens ; 

 lower lip in one broad, scarcely lobed, waved and crenate segment. Filaments 

 aud anthers villous. Style glabrous. Seeds rounded, granulated, seated on a red- 

 dish or orange-coloured gland. 



Tribe VI. Nepete^, Benth. 



" Stamens approximating, parallel under the upper lip of the 

 corolla, 2 inferior shortest. Calyx tubular." — Bab. Man. 



IX. Nepeta, Linn. Cat-mint. 



" CaZya; tubular, many- (15-) ribbed, its mouth usually a little 

 oblique, 5-toothed. Corolla with the ttihe exserted ; upper lip 

 straight, emarginate or biiid; lower 3-fid. The two anterior sta- 

 mens the shortest. Anthers before bursting approaching in pairs ; 

 cells diverging." — Br. Fl. 



1. N. Cataria, L. Cat-mint. " Stems erect, flowers in spiked 

 subpeduncled dense many-flowered whorls, leaves stalked cordate 

 inciso-serrate whitish pubescent beneath." — Br. Fl. p. 320. Srn. 

 E. Fl. iii. p. 70. E. B. ii. t. 137. 



