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59. LABIAT^E. 
9. Prunella Linn. Self-heal. 
1. P. vulgaris (L.); 1. stalked oblong-ovate obtnse, upper lip 
of the cal. with short truncate mucronate teeth, lower lip with 
ovate-lanceolate mucronate teeth, longer stam. with a straight 
spinous tooth at theu’ apex. — E. B. ,9()1. — L. nearly entire or 
slightly toothed ; on continental specimens they are sometimes 
])innatifid. FI. blue, rarely white, whorled, crowded into a dense 
spike, with 2 broad obcordate acuminate bracts under each whorl. 
Cal. reddish-pm-ple. — In damp pastm'es. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
Tribe VI. Nepetece. 
10. NePETA XlHW. 
1. IV. Cataria (L.) ; 1. stalked cordate acute inciso-scrrate 
whitish-j)id)escent beneath, whorls dense iniiny-flowered rather 
stalked spiked, nuts smooth and glabrous. — E. B. 137- — FI. 
white. St. 2 — 3 feet high, downy or mealy. Stam. at length 
curved outwards. — Waste places. P. VII. VIII. Cat-mint. E. I. 
2. IV. Glechoma (Benth.); 1. cordate -reniform crenate, whorls 
axillarv stalked secund 3 — 4-flowered, cal. -teeth ovate aristate, 
nuts oblong with impressed dots. — E. B. 853. Glechoma hede- 
racea Sm. — St. procumbent, creeping. Antb. in pairs forming a 
cross. — /3. liirsuta ; cal. -teeth elongate linear-lanceolate. G. hir- 
suta “W. and K.,” Reich. — Hedges and thickets. Scotland. 
P. IV. — VI. Ground-ivy . 
Tribe VII. Stachydea. 
11. Melittis Zfww. 
1. M. Melissojihyllum (L.). — E.B. 577 and 636. — L. oblong- 
ovate or slightly cordate. Upper lij) of the cal. with 2 or 3 teeth. 
FI. purple with a white margin or variegated in lUfferent ways, 
large. — St. 1 — 2 feet high. M. grandiflora (Sm.) is only ashght 
variety. — Woods in the south. P. V. VI. Bastard Balm. E. 
12. Lamium Linn. 
I. L. amplexicaule (L.) ; 1. roundish-cordate obtusely inciso- 
crenate, lower ones stalked, upper sessile and clasjiing, cal.-teeth 
longer than their tube (green) at length connivent, lateral lobes 
of the lower lip of the cor. toothless, nuts obovate oblong. — E. B. 
770. R. I. f. 373 . — Nuts small, three times as long as broad, 
with a small triangular oblique terminal space. Tube of the 
cor. much longer than the calyx, slender, naked within ; occa- 
sionally the lateral lobes of the low'er lip have 3 minute teeth. 
In damp weather the cor. does not alw'ays expand but still the 
