LABIATE. 



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Under hedges, and on the borders 

 of woods, throughout Europe and Rus- 

 sian Asia, except the extreme north. 

 Rather frequent in England, and south- 

 ern Scotland, rare in Ireland. Fl. sum- 

 mer. 



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Fig. 785. 



VII. NEPETA. KEPETA. 



Creeping or erect herbs, with flowers usually blue, in axillary whorls 

 or terminal spikes. Calyx tubular, 15-ribbed, its mouth oblique and 

 5-toothed, the upper teeth usually the longest. Corolla with a rather 

 long tube, the throat enlarged ; the upper lip erect, slightly concave, 

 notched or 2-lobed ; the lower lip spreading and 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 in pairs under the upper lip, the upper or inner pair the longest. 



An extensive European and Asiatic genus, the great centre of which 

 is in western Asia. With a few other exotic genera, it forms a tribe 

 among Labiates known as well by the ribs of the calyx always 15, not 

 13 as in Calamint, nor 10 or 5 as in the generality of Labiates, as by 

 the stamens, of which the upper or central pair project above the outer 

 ones, whilst in most Labiates the outer ones project above the inner. 

 Stem creeping or prostrate. Flowers axillary . . . . 1. Ground-Ivy N. 

 Stem tall and erect. Flowers in terminal spikes or clusters 2. Calamint N. 



The N. Nejoetella, from continental Europe, and one or two eastern 

 species, are occasionally cultivated in flower-gardens. 



1. Ground-Ivy Nepeta. Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. 

 (Fig. 786.) 

 (Glechoma hederacea, Eng. Bot. t. 853. Ground Ivy.) 

 A more or less hairy perennial, creeping and rooting at the base, 



