. 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 rases and baskets. Nepeta is a genus of about 120 spe- cies, mostly in the northern hemisphere outside llie 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 den
. 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 rases and baskets. Nepeta is a genus of about 120 spe- cies, mostly in the northern hemisphere outside llie 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: tls. blue or white; calyx 15-nerved; corolla 2-lipped; perfect stamens 4: ovary 4-parted. The genus is placed be- tween Lopanthus and parallel, ascending; anther cells divergent or divari- cate. See Fig. 1473 . Nepeta Gleehoma is a perennial creeping plant 1474. Leaf of Catnip. f <'^^y. ?""i'â¢, '" «Py 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. Catnip or Catnep. CATMraT. Figs. llT.'i, 1174. Tall and erect: Ivs. heart-shaped, green above, whitish below, crenate, stalked. Eu., Orient. BB. Color of fls. blue. Gleohdma, Benth. Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the- Groi-nd. Makes a dense mat: Ivs. roundish, more deeply notched at the base than Catnip, and green on both sidi-s, the floral ones like the others, not reduced to bracts as in the other kinds dpscribed: whorls axillary, few-fld. Nat. fiMin , \^i;.. :!:87.âThe green-ivd. form is lr~. uli ili^m \ :ii-. variegata (jV. hederdeea, Trev., viir. ../;â ,/',/. ll,. NEPHROLEPIS 10
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