GENUS 7. MINT FAMILY. ALL 
didynamous, included, the anterior pair the longer; anthers 2-celled, or those of the anterior 
Pair more or less imperfect, the sacs divaricate. Style 2-cleft at the summit, lobes obtuse. 
Ovary 4-lobed. Nutlets obovoid, smooth. [Greek, iron, referring to its medicinal use.] 
. About 45 species, native of the Old World, most numerous 
in the Orient. Type species: Sideritis hirsuta L. 
1. Sideritis romana L. Simple-beaked Iron-wort. 
Fig. 3589. 
Sideritis romana L. Sp. Pl. 575. 1753. 
Annual, softly pubescent with spreading hairs, the stem 
erect, 41° tall, usually branched. Leaves obovate to 
oblong, 4-13’ long, crenate, sessile or nearly so, ultimately 
somewhat veiny; clusters few-flowered; flowers white or 
pinkish; calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, the middle one 
of the upper lip ovate, all subulate-tipped; corolla slightly 
exceeding the calyx, the middle lobe of the lower lip 
reniform. 
In fields, southeastern Pennsylvania. Naturalized from the 
Mediterranean region. Also in Bermuda. June-Aug. 
8. AGASTACHE Clayt.; Gron. Fl. Virg. 88. 1762. 
[Vieck1a Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 308. 1808.] 
[LopHantHus Benth. Bot. Reg. 15: under pl. 1282. 1829. Not Adans. 1763.] 
Tall erect perennial herbs, with serrate, mainly ovate, petioled leaves, and yellowish 
purplish or blue flowers, verticillate-clustered in thick dense or interrupted bracted terminal 
spikes. Calyx narrowly campanulate, somewhat oblique, slightly 2-lipped, 5-toothed, the 
teeth of the upper lip somewhat larger than those of the lower, or all about equal. Corolla 
strongly 2-lipped, the tube as long as the calyx; upper lip erect, 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 
3-lobed, its middle lobe broader than the lateral ones and crenulate. Stamens 4, all anther- 
bearing, didynamous, the upper pair the longer; anthers 2-celled, their sacs nearly parallel. 
Ovary deeply 4-parted ; style 2-cleft at the summit. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. [Greek, many spikes.] 
‘About 8 species, natives of North America. Besides the following, 2 or 3 others occur in the. 
western United States. Type species: Hyssopus nepetoides L. 
Glabrous or very nearly so, stout; corolla greenish-yellow. 1. A. nepetoides. 
Pubescent, stout; corolla purplish; leaves green both sides. 2. A. scrophulariaefolia. 
Glabrous or slightly pubescent, slender ; corolla blue; leaves pale beneath. 3. A. anethiodora. 
1. Agastache nepetoides (L.) Kuntze. 
Catnep Giant-Hyssop. Fig. 3590. 
Hyssopus nepetoides L. Sp. Pl. 569. 1753. 
Lophanthus nepetoides Benth. Bot. Reg. under 
pl. 1282. 1820. 
Vleckia nepetoides Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 89. 1836. 
‘A, nepetoides Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 511. 1891. 
Glabrous, or slightly puberulent; stem 
stout, 2°-5° high, branched, at least above, 
sharply 4-angled. Leaves ovate or ovate- 
oblong, acuminate or acute at the apex, 
rounded, cordate or the upper narrowed at 
the base, mostly thin, coarsely dentate, 2’-6’ 
long; spikes 3’-18’ long, usually very dense; 
petioles of the lowest leaves often 2’ long; 
bracts ovate, acute or acuminate; calyx- 
teeth oblong cr ovate-oblong, obtuse or sub- 
acute, sometimes purplish; corolla greenish 
yellow, about 4” long, scarcely exceeding 
the calyx. 
In woods and thickets, Quebec and Vermont 
to South Dakota, south to Georgia, Tennessee, 
Kansas and Arkansas. July—Sept. 
