GENUS 9. MINT FAMILY. 113 
1. Meehania cordata (Nutt.) Britton. 
Meehania. Fig. 3593. 
Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt. Gen. 2: 35. 1818. 
Cedronella cordata Benth. Lab. 502. 1834. 
Meehania cordata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 33. 
pl. 173. 1894. 
Flowering stems ascending, 3’-8 high; stolons 
very slender, leafy throughout, sometimes 2° 
long. Leaves all broadly ovate or ovate-orbicu- 
lar, thin, obtuse or subacute at the apex, crenate 
all around, cordate at the base, sparingly pubes- 
cent with scattered hairs on both surfaces, or 
nearly glabrous beneath, green on both sides, 
1-2’ long, the basal sinus broad; spikes 1’—4’ 
long; bracts ovate or oblong, acute, membranous, 
the lower sometimes crenulate and surpassing 
the calyx; bractlets small, lanceolate; calyx about 
5” long, puberulent, its longer teeth about one- 
half the length of the tube; corolla 1’-11’ long, 
showy. _ 
In rich moist woods and thickets, southwestern 
Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee and North iy, <j iS 
Carolina. May-July. AIS S 
10. NEPETA [Rivin.] L. Sp. Pl. 570. 1753. 
Herbs, with dentate or incised leaves, and mostly white or blue rather small flowers in 
verticillate clusters, usually crowded in terminal spikes, or axillary and cymose. Calyx tubu- 
lar, somewhat oblique at the mouth, 15-nerved, usually incurved, 5-toothed, scarcely 2-lipped, 
but the upper teeth usually longer than the lower. Corolla-tube enlarged above, the limb 
strongly 2-lipped; upper lip erect, emarginate or 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the 
middle lobe larger than the lateral ones. Stamens. 4, all anther bearing, didynamous, ascend- 
ing under the upper lip, the lower pair the shorter; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate. 
Ovary deeply 4-parted; style 2-cleft at the summit. Nutlets ovoid, compressed, smooth. 
[Ancient Latin name of catnep.] 
‘About 150 species, natives of Europe and Asia, the following typical. 
1. Nepeta Cataria L. Catmint. Catnep. 
Nep. Fig. 3594. 
Nepeta Cataria L. Sp. Pl. 570. 1753. 
Perennial, densely canescent, pale green; stem 
rather stout, erect, branched, 2°-3° high, the 
branches straight, ascending. Leaves ovate to 
oblong, petioled, acute at the apex, coarsely cre- 
nate-dentate, mostly cordate at the base, 1-3’ 
long, greener above than beneath; flower-clusters 
spiked at the ends of the stem and branches, the 
spikes 1-5’ long; bracts small, foliaceous; bract- 
lets subulate; calyx puberulent, its teeth subu- 
late, the upper about one-half the length of the 
tube; corolla nearly white, or pale purple, dark- 
dotted, puberulent without, 5’-6” long, its lobe a 
little longer than the calyx, the broad middle lobe 
of its lower lip crenulate. 
In waste places, New Brunswick and Quebec to 
South Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Kansas and 
Utah; also in Cuba. Naturalized from Europe. 
Native also of Asia. July—-Nov. 
11. GLECOMA L. Sp. Pl. 578. 1753. 
Low diffuse creeping herbs, with long-petioled nearly orbicular or reniform ¢renate 
leaves, and rather large blue or violet flowers in small axillary verticillate clusters. Calyx 
oblong-tubular, 15-nerved, oblique at the throat, not 2-lipped, unequally 5-toothed. Corolla- 
tube exserted, enlarged above, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, 2-lobed or emarginate; the 
lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe broad, emarginate, the side lobes small. Stamens 
4, didynamous, all anther-bearing, ascending under the upper lip of the corolla, not exserted, 
the upper pair the longer; anther-sacs divergent. Ovary deeply 4-parted. Nutlets ovoid, 
smooth. [Greek name for thyme or pennyroyal.] 
About 6 species of Europe and Asia, the following typical. 
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