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peduncled, manyrflowered, hairy ; leaves- cordate, fub- 
petioled, aim oft naked ; lateral lobes of the corolla fpread- 
ing. Stalks about two feet high, (Scopoli fays the height 
of a man,)' with a few fender branches coming out Irom 
the fides. Leaves indented on their edges. Flowers’in 
roundifi whorls, peduncled, blue. There is a variety of 
it with white flowers. Native of Spain, Piedmont, Car- 
liiola, and Siberia. It was cultivated in the botanic gar¬ 
den at Chelfea in 1723 ; and flowers from July to Sep¬ 
tember. 
8. Nepeta Ucranica, or Ukranian catmint: flowers pa- 
nicled ; leaves lanceolate, ferrate, fellile, naked. Native 
of the Ukraine. 
9. Nepeta incana, or hoary catmint: panicles axillary ; 
leaves petioled, ovate, ferrate, tomentofe. Stem herba¬ 
ceous, roundiflr at bottom, decumbent, naked, bluntly 
four-cornered above, eredt, tomentofe, undivided, a fpan 
or a little more in height. Leaves acute, tomentofe on 
both fides, but Whiter underneath, fpreading, half an inch 
long, the upper ones gradually lefs. It differs from 
N. nepetella in having the flowers in axillary panicles, and 
the leaves ovate-oblong, not cordate. Native of Japan. 
The Kew Catalogue has a fpecies under the fame name, 
the native place of which is not known. It was intro¬ 
duced in 1778 by Mr. Thomas Blackie, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
10. Nepeta nepetella, or fmall catmint: cymes pedun¬ 
cled ; leaves cordate, oblong-lanceolate, deeply ferrate, 
tomentofe. This is only one-third of the fize of the com¬ 
mon fort. The leaves are very narrow, acutely finuate- 
toothed. Flowers loofely racemed, with about five flow¬ 
ers in the racemelets, and not thirty, as in N. violacea ; 
corollas, when recent, red, not white or blue; antherae 
blue. Native of the fouth of Europe. Cultivated in 
*758) by Mr. Miller. It flowers from July to September. 
11. Nepeta nuda, naked or Spanifh catmint: racemes 
wliorled, naked ; leaves cordate-oblong, feflile, ferrate. 
Stems two feet high, fmooth, ftrift, four-grooved, the 
older ones dark purple. Leaves like thofe of Stachys pa- 
luftris, blunt, veined, naked, rugged on both fides. 
Flowers diftindt; corollas whitifh-rufefcent, with the beard 
of the palate w'hite, and the throat dotted with purple. 
Krocker defcribes a plant under the name of nuda, but 
is doubtful whither he fliould refer it, becaufe it has fe- 
veral charadters of N. nuda, and feveral of Ucranica, and 
that authors difagree fo much in their charafters. He 
fufpedts that thefe tw'o may be one and the fame plant, 
and is rather inclined to fuppofe that his may be the 
Ucranica; the ftem being four or five feet high ; the leaves 
ftridtly feflile, rather lanceolate than cordate, bluntly fer¬ 
rate, not blunt at the end, but acuminate; corolla pale 
blue, not white-rufefcent, or dotted with red, but rather 
with white ; and laftly, the fpikes being compofed of ra¬ 
ther long, oppofite, many-flowered, peduncles, placed in 
whorls, panicled, naked, without any bradte between 
them. Native of the fouth of Europe. Cultivated by 
Miller in 1758. It flowers from June to Auguft. 
52. Nepeta melifiaefolia, or balm-leaved catmint: leaves 
on ftaiks, heart-fhaped, ferrated : whorls pedunculated, 
corymbofe; calyx long, ftriated. Native of the ifland of 
Candia, where it flowers in July and Auguft. Stem a 
foot and a half high, fquare, downy. Leaves on ftaiks, 
heart-fhaped, largely toothed, as in Eryfimum alliaria. 
Whorls ftalked, forming a terminal clufter; corolla blue, 
its under lip dotted with red. 
13. Nepeta hirfuta, or hairy catmint: flowers feflile, 
whorl-fpiked ; whorls involved in nap. Stalks about two 
feet high, branching from the bottom. Leaves heart- 
fhaped, obtufe, little indented, on pretty long petioles. 
Stalks terminated by long fpikes of flowers in whorls, fe- 
parate, feflile, wrapped in a hoary down ; corolla white, 
appearing in July. Native of Sicily. According to Lou- 
reiro, it is alfo a native of Cochinchina. He defcribes 
the ftem as one foot high, upright, hairy, and pale. Leaves 
lanceolate^ ferrate, fiirfute, feflile. 
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14. Nepeta Italica, or Italian catmint: flowers feflile, 
whorl-fpiked ; bradtes lanceolate, the length of the calyx ; 
leaves petioled. The ftaiks of this feldom rife more than 
a foot and a half high, fending out very few branches. 
.Leaves fhort, oval, heart-fhaped. The plant is hoary and 
ftrong-l’cented. Native of Italy. Cultivated in 1739 by 
Mr. Miller. It flowers from June to Auguft. 
15. Nepeta longiflora, or long-flowered catmint: cymes 
diftant, ftalked, few-flow'ered ; leaves heart-fhaped, ob¬ 
tufe, notched, glandular beneath; floral ones all feflile; 
tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx. Native of 
Perfia. Stem a foot and a half high, fquare, branched. 
Flowers a little drooping, ftalked, of an azure blue. 
16. Nepeta muflini, or fcolloped-leaved catmint: cymes 
ftalked, lowermoft diftant; leaves heart-fhaped, obtufe, 
downy, notched, rugofe, not glandular; floral ones moft- 
ly ftalked. Native of Siberia: it flowers from May through 
the whole fummer. Stem rather fhrubby, decumbent, 
branched, fquare, with obtufe angles. Flowers wliorled, 
three to five on a ftalk, of a very rich light-purple colour. 
17. Nepeta multibradfeata, or bradleated catmint: flow¬ 
ers feflile, in wliorled fpikes; bradtes lanceolate, longer 
than the calyx, downy; leaves ftalked, hairy beneath. 
Found upon Mount Atlas. Stem ereff, (lightly branched, 
fquare. Flowers wliorled, forming a denfe fpike; bradfes 
very numerous and confpicuous, violet-coloured. This 
is nearly allied in habit to N. Italica. 
18. Nepeta reticulata, or netted catmint: fpikes ter¬ 
minal ; bradtes, oblong, acute, with reticulated veins, 
coloured; leaves lanceolate, heart-fhaped at the bafe; 
downy; lateral lobes of the corolla reflexed. Found 
upon Mount Atlas. Stem hairy, furrowed, obtufely- 
fquare. Flowers pale-purple; bradtes large, frequently 
violet-coloured at the margin. 
19. Nepeta tuberofa, or tuberous-rooted catmint: fpikes 
terminating; bradtes oblong, acuminate, nerve-lined, 
coloured ; leaves cordate, pubefeent; lateral lobes of the 
corolla reflex. This has a thick knobbed root, from 
which come out one or two ftaiks, that often decline to 
the ground ; they are about two feet and a half long, and 
fend out two fide-branches oppofite. Leaves oblong, cre- 
nate, feflile, deep green. The upper part of the (talk, for 
more than a foot in length, has whorls of flowers, the 
lowerones two inches afunder, but nearer all the way up; 
they fit very-clofe to the ftaiks, and are guarded by fmall 
bradtes : the corolla is blue. There is a variety which is 
procumbent; and that feems to be Mr. Miller’s plant, 
for he fa)'s that itfometimes has an eredt ftalk. Native of 
Spain and Portugal. Cultivated in 1683, by Mr. James 
Sutherland. It flowers from June to Auguft. 
20. Nepeta fcordotis, or Cretan catmint: fpikes termi¬ 
nating, feflile; bradtes fubcordate, villofe; leaves cordate, 
blunt. Root large, from which proceed many tomentofe 
leaves, like thofe of white horehound, fpreading on the 
ground in a circle ; from the middle of thefe rife feveral 
Items, which are alfo very tomentofe, like white hore¬ 
hound, and on the top of them are white flowers in a 
large thick fpike. Seed black. The whole plant is larger 
and thicker than the common Scordium, for wdiich they 
ufe it in Crete or Candia, where it grows abundantly on 
rocks, by way-fides, and on the borders of fields. 
21. Nepeta Janata, or woolly catmint: fpikes terminat¬ 
ing; bradtes ovate, nerve-wrinkled, fubfeariofe; leaves 
oblong, cordate, villofe, lateral lobes of the corolla fpread¬ 
ing. The rootconfifts of various flefhy roundifh or fufi- 
form tubers, the firft year forming the root-leaves, and the 
fecond many flow'ering-ftems. Thefe are vifeid, fet with 
long white villofe hairs, in height one foot or eighteen 
inches, either entirely eredt, or procumbent at the bafe. 
Leaves bluntifh, crenate, wrinkled, vifeid, the lower pe¬ 
tioled, the upper feflile, all having a ftrong fmell. The 
plant is more or lefs villofe in different individuals and at 
different ages. Native place not known. The feeds were 
fent by Willich to Jacquin ; and he introduced them at 
Kew in 1774. It flowers in May and June. 
22. Nepeta 
