114 LABIATAE. Vor, III. 
1. Glecoma hederacea L. Ground 
Ivy. Gill-over-the-Ground. 
Field Balm. Fig. 3595. 
Glecoma hederacea L. Sp. Pl. 578. 1753. 
N. Glechoma Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 485. 
1834. 
N. he eins B.S.P. Prel. Cat, N. Y. 43. 
1888. 
Perennial, pubescent, the creeping stems 
leafy, sometimes 18’ long, the branches 
ascending. Lower petioles commonly 
longer than the leaves; leaves green 
both sides, 4’-14’ in diameter; clusters 
few-flowered, the flowers 7’’-10” long, 
short-pedicelled; bractlets —_ subulate, 
shorter than the calyx; calyx puberulent, 
its teeth acute or lanceolate-acuminate, 
about one-third as long as the tube; 
corolla-tube 2-3 times as long as the 
calyx; upper pair of stamens much 
longer than the lower. 
In waste places, woods and thickets, New- 
foundland to Ontario, Minnesota, Oregon, 
Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado. 
Old names, alehoof, cat’s-foot, gill, gill-ale, 
gill-go-by-the-ground, hayhofe, haymaids, 
hove, tunhoof, creeping charlie, robin-run- 
away, gill-run-over, crow-vituals, wild 
snake-root, hedge-maids. March—May. 
‘12. MOLDAVICA [Tourn.] Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 190. 1763. 
Herbs, with dentate entire or incised leaves, and blue or purple flowers in axillary and 
terminal bracted clusters, the bracts pectinate in our species. Calyx tubular, 15-nerved, 
straight or incurved, 5-toothed, the upper tooth much larger than the others, or 2-lipped with 
the 3 upper teeth more or less united. Corolla expanded above, its limb 2-lipped; upper lip 
erect, emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones, 
sometimes 2-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip, the upper pair 
longer than the lower; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate; style 2-cleft at the summit; ovary 
deeply 4-parted. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. [From Moldavia.] 
About 35 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Only the following are known in North 
America. Type species: Dracocephalum Molddvica L. 
Corolla 2-3 times as long as the calyx; clusters mostly axillary. 1. M. parviflora. 
Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx; clusters mostly terminal, dense. 2. M. Moldavica, 
1. Moldavica parviflora (Nutt.) Brit- 
ton. American Dragon-head. 
Fig. 3596. 
Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt. Gen. 2: 35. 
1818. 
Annual or biennial, somewhat pubescent, : 
or glabrous; stem rather stout, usually y 
branched, 6’-23° high. Leaves lanceolate, 
ovate, or oblong, slender-petioled, serrate, 
or the lower incised, acute or obtuse at the 
apex, rounded or narrowed at the hase, 
thin, 1-3’ long; clusters dense, many-flow- 
ered, crowded in dense terminal spikes, 
and sometimes also in the upper axils; 
bracts ovate to oblong, pectinate with awn- 
pointed teeth, shorter than or equalling the 
calyx; pedicels 1’-2” long; upper tooth of 
the calyx ovate-oblong, longer than the 
narrower lower and lateral ones, all acumi- 
nate; corolla light blue, scarcely longer 
than the calyx. 
* 
.In dry gravelly or rocky soil, Quebec and 
Ontario to Alaska, New York, Iowa, Missouri 
and Arizona. May-—Aug. 
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