. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. NEPETA NEPHROLEPIS 1075. 1474. Leaf of Catnip. vases and baskets. Nepeta is a genus of about 120 spe- cies, mostly in the northern hemisphere outside the tropics. Perennial or annual herbs, tall and erect, or dwarf and more or less trailing: Ivs. dentate or incised, the floral ones like the rest or reduced to b
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. NEPETA NEPHROLEPIS 1075. 1474. Leaf of Catnip. vases and baskets. Nepeta is a genus of about 120 spe- cies, mostly in the northern hemisphere outside the tropics. Perennial or annual herbs, tall and erect, or dwarf and more or less trailing: Ivs. dentate or incised, the floral ones like the rest or reduced to bracts : whorls of fls. crowded in a dense spike, or in a loose cyme, rarely few- fld. and axillary: fls. blue or white; calyx 15-nerved; corolla 2-lipped; perfect stamens 4: ovary 4-parted. The genus is placed be- tween Lopanthus and Dracocephahim, and is characterized as follows: calyx tubular, the mouth straight or oblique, 5- toothed; stamens usually parallel, ascending; anther cells divergent or divari- cate. See Fig. 1473 . Nepeta Glechoma is a perennial creeping plant of easy culture in any loose, rich, fairly moist soil, in either shade or full sunlight, but to be luxuriant in the open it should have a moist soil. It is a very rapid grower, and is therefore often troublesome when planted with other low-growing plants. It is useful as a ground covering in shrubbery borders and shady places generally. A. Blooms small, inconspicuous. B. Color of fls. white or nearly so. Cat^ria, Linn. Catxip or Cv\tnep. Catmint. Figs. 1473, 1174. Tall and erect: Ivs. heart-shaped, green above, whitish below, crenate, stalked. En., Orient. BB. Color of fls. l)lue. Glechdma, Benth. Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the- Ground. Makes a dense mat: Ivs. roundish, more deeply notched at the base than Catnip, and green on both sides, the floral ones like the others, not reduced to bracts as in the other kinds here described: whorls axillary, few-fld. Nat. from Eu., Asia. 3:87.—The green-ivd. form is l
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