. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 9. MINT FAMILY i. Meehania cordata (Nutt.) Britton. Meehania. Fig. 3593. Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt. Gen. 2: 35. 1818. Cedronella cordata Benth. Lab. 502. 1834. Meehania cordata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 33. pi. 173- 1894- Flowering stems ascending, 3'-8' high; stolons very slender, leafy throughout, sometimes 2° long. Leaves all broadly ovate or ov
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 9. MINT FAMILY i. Meehania cordata (Nutt.) Britton. Meehania. Fig. 3593. Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt. Gen. 2: 35. 1818. Cedronella cordata Benth. Lab. 502. 1834. Meehania cordata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 33. pi. 173- 1894- Flowering stems ascending, 3'-8' high; stolons very slender, leafy throughout, sometimes 2° long. Leaves all broadly ovate or ovate-orbicu- lar, thin, obtuse or subacute at the apex, crenate all around, cordate at the base, sparingly pubes- cent with scattered hairs on both surfaces, or nearly glabrous beneath, green on both sides, l'-2' long, the basal sinus broad; spikes 1-4' long; bracts ovate or oblong, acute, membranous, the lower sometimes crenulate and surpassing the calyx; bractlets small, lanceolate; calyx about 5" long, puberulent, its longer teeth about one- half the length of the tube; corolla i'-ii' long, showy. In rich moist woods and thickets, southwestern Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee and North Carolina. May-July. 10. NEPETA [Rivin.] L. Sp. PI. 570. 1753. Herbs, with dentate or incised leaves, and mostly white or blue rather small flowers in verticillate clusters, usually crowded in terminal spikes, or axillary and cymose. Calyx tubu- lar, somewhat oblique at the mouth, 15-nerved, usually incurved, 5-toothed, scarcely 2-lipped, but the upper teeth usually longer than the lower. Corolla-tube enlarged above, the limb strongly 2-lipped; upper lip erect, emarginate or 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones. Stamens â 4, all anther bearing, didynamous, ascend- ing under the upper lip, the lower pair the shorter; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate. Ovary deeply 4-parted; style 2-cleft at the summit. Nutlets ovoid, compressed, smooth
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