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4. Agastache breviflora (A. Gray) Epling, Wash. Acad. Sci. Jour. 29: 



489. 1939. 



Cedronella breviflora A. Gray, Airier. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 

 20: 309. 1885. 



Mountains of Graham, Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties, 

 type from the Santa Kita Mountains, Pima County, 7,000 feet 

 (Pringle). Western Texas to southern Arizona and Mexico. 



5. Agastache pallidiflora (Heller) Rydb., Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 33: 



150. 1906. 



Brittonastrum pallidiflorum Heller, ibid. 26: 621. 1899. 



White Mountains (Apache County), and at many localities in 

 Coconino County, 7,000 to 10,000 feet, rich moist soil of coniferous 

 forests, July and August. New Mexico and northern Arizona. 



Flowers whitish or tinged with lavender. 



6. Agastache neomexicana (Briqj Standi., Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herba- 



rium 13: 211. 1910. 



Brittonastrum neomexicanwn Briq., Conserv. et Jard. Bot. 

 Geneve Ann. 6: 158. 1902. 



Pinaleno Mountains (Graham County), Chiricahua Mountains 

 (Cochise County), 7,500 to 9,000 feet, rich soil in coniferous forests. 

 New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. 



Flowers purplish pink. 



9. NEPETA 



Plant perennial, herbaceous; leaves soft, ample, usually canescent, 

 truncate or subcordate at base, rather coarsely toothed; flowers in 

 dense, usually pedunculate cymes, these disposed in an interrupted 

 spike; calyx tubular or campanulate, the tube somewhat constricted 

 above, the teeth deltoid-subulate, somewhat spreading, the posterior 

 3 teeth joined at base, the orifice therefore oblique; corolla white or 

 pinkish, the upper lip erect, notched, laterally reflexed; stamens 4, 

 paired; nutlets smooth, oblong-ovate. 



1. Nepeta cataria L., Sp. PL 570. 1753. 



Near Flagstaff (Coconino County), Prescott (Yavapai County), 

 Chiricahua Mountains (Cochise County), usually at roadsides, July 

 and August. Widely distributed in North America; naturalized from 

 the Mediterranean region. 



Catnip. Although having no therapeutic virtue other than that 

 of a mild aromatic, this is an official drug plant. It is reputed to 

 have a quieting effect on the nerves and is used as a mild stimulant, 

 tonic, and emmenagogue. The odor of the plant has a peculiar 

 attraction for cats. 



10. MOLDAVICA. Dragonhead 



A glabrate annual or biennial herb; leaves oblong, sharply and 

 coarsely toothed; flowers in dense, oblong, often leafy spikes, these 

 sometimes interrupted or the lower verticils remote, the subtending 

 bracts spinose along the margins; calyx tubular, strongly veined, the 

 anterior teeth deltoid-lanceolate, spinose at tip, the posterior tooth 

 ovate, twice as broad as the others; corolla blue or purplish pink, 



