. 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. i. Glecoma hederacea L. Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the-Ground. Field Balm. Fig. 3595. Glecoma hederacea L. Sp. PI. 578. 1753- N. Glechoma Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 485. 1834- N. hederacea Prel. Cat. N. Y. 43. 1888. Perennial, pubescent, the creeping stems leafy, sometimes 18' long, the branches ascending. Lower petioles commonly longer than the leaves; leave
. 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. i. Glecoma hederacea L. Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the-Ground. Field Balm. Fig. 3595. Glecoma hederacea L. Sp. PI. 578. 1753- N. Glechoma Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 485. 1834- N. hederacea Prel. Cat. N. Y. 43. 1888. Perennial, pubescent, the creeping stems leafy, sometimes 18' long, the branches ascending. Lower petioles commonly longer than the leaves; leaves green both sides, i'-ij' in diameter; clusters few-flowered, the flowers y"-io" long, short-pedicelled; bractlets subulate, shorter than the calyx; calyx puberulent, its teeth acute or lanceolate-acuminate, about one-third as long as the tube; corolla-tube 2-2 times as long as the calyx; upper pair of stamens much longer than the lower. In waste places, woods and thickets, New- foundland to Ontario, Minnesota, Oregon, Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado. Old names, alehoof, cat's-foot, gill, gill-ale, gill-go-by-the-ground, hayhofe, haymaids, hove, tunhoof, creeping charlie, robin-run- away, gill-run-over, crow-vituals, wild snake-root, hedge-maids. March-May. 12. MOLDAVICA [Tourn.] Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 190. 1763. Herbs, with dentate entire or incised leaves, and blue or purple flowers in axillary and terminal bracted clusters, the bracts pectinate in our species. Calyx tubular, 15-nerved, straight or incurved, 5-toothed, the upper tooth much larger than the others, or 2-lipped with the 3 upper teeth more or less united. Corolla expanded above, its limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones, sometimes 2-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip, the upper pair longer than the lower; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate; style 2-cleft at the summit; ovary deeply 4-parted.
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