LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 



the calyx; nutlets tubercled or rough-wrinkled, gray and dull. Road- 

 sides. May to August. 



L. Gmelini, Puccoon. Hispid with bristly hairs ; stem leaves lance- 

 olate or linear, those of the flowering branches 

 ovate-oblong; flowers peduncled, crowded, showy, 

 deep orange-yellow, woolly at base inside, the 

 tube much exceeding the calyx; fruiting calyx 

 3-4 times longer than the white, smooth, and shin- 

 ing nutlets. Pine barrens. April to June. 



L. canescens, Puccoon. Softly hairy and 

 hoary; leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, more or less 

 downy beneath; flowers sessile; corolla deep 

 orange-yellow, naked at base inside, the tube much exceeding the 

 calyx; fruiting calyx barely twice the length of the white, smooth, 

 and shining nutlets. Dry woods. April, May. 



Lithospermum 

 Gmelini, Puccoon. 



LA3IATAE (Mint Family) 



Herbs, with square stems, opposite leaves, more or less 2-lipped 

 corolla, usually didynamous stamens, and a deeply 4-lobed ovary 

 which forms in fruit 4 little seed-like nutlets. 



NEPETA 



Perennial herbs. Calyx more or less curved. Corolla dilated in 

 the throat; the upper lip erect and notched; the lower 3-cleft, the 

 middle lobe largest. Stamens ascending, ex- 

 serted. 



N. hederacea, Ground Ivy. Creeping and trail- 

 ing; leaves petioled, round-kidney-shaped, crenate; 

 corolla light blue, thrice the length of the calyx. 

 Shady ground. May to July. 



LAMIUM 



Nepeta hederacea, 

 Ground ivy. 



Decumbent herb. Lowest leaves small and 

 long petioled, the middle heart-shaped and doubly 

 toothed, the uppermost ones subtending the whorled flower cluster. 

 Corolla dilated at throat; upper lip arched; middle lobe of lower 

 lip broad and notched. 



