DRACOCEPH'ALUM MOLDA'VICUM. 
MOLDAVIAN DRAGON’S HEAD. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. OYMNOSPERMI A. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Moldavia. 
I5 feet. 
July, Auof. 
Annual. 
in 1596. 
No. 371. 
The word Dracocephalum, is deduced from the 
Greek dracon, a dragon; and cephale, a head; 
and alludes to the fancied appearance of the flower. 
The fabled accounts of Dragons we have noticed 
under No. 57; to which we may add, that the word 
DRACON seems to have been adapted to these tales, 
having been derived from derco, a term which, with 
its derivatives, is expressive of the fire-flashing eyes 
of the imaginary monster, to which it has given a 
name. Moldavicum, from Moldavia, the country of 
which it is indigenous. It is a Turkish province, 
adjoining Poland. 
This is a pretty annual, and deserves to be better 
known ; as well too, for its perfume, as its neat spikes 
of flowers. The whole herb yields a lemon-like 
scent, somewhat approaching the delightful perfume 
of the Aloysia citriodora, more commonly known as 
the lemon-scented Verbena. The Dracocephalum 
Moldavicum has a white variety, the seed of which 
is often mixed with the blue. 
We have usually raised it in the hotbed, in April, 
and transplanted it into the mingled flower beds; 
not more than three plants in a place. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 420. 
