Note 270 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

Gerard, p. 856,—Glechoma hederacea, L.; once of great medicinal repute: which accounts for our author’s finding it, as it should seem, among garden-herbs. It has become naturalized and very familiar in New England. Cutler finds it wild in 1785. Mr. Bentham refers it to Nepeta, but substitutes a new specific name for that given by Linnæus, which is based on the ancient names, and has at least the right of priority.