1168 LAMIACEAE 
27. MICROMERIA Benth. Perennial, diffuse or creeping herbs. Leaf- 
blades Lo or sparingly toothed. Flowers in axillary cymes, the cymes in 
ours one-flowered. Calyx with a fringe of 
lavender-pink, or whitish: upper lip erec 
lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe very es 
tamens 4, more or less exserted.—Abou 
Species, widely distributed. 
M. pilosiuscula (A. Gray) Smal. Stem 
a br anches sparingly depen or glab- 
rate, the branches ascending or spreading, 
1-4 dm. long: leaf-blades Sob ar io 
lose, 4—5 mm. long, s r than the pedicel 
or sometim E. BE in length; lobes 1-1.5 mm. long, ovate-deltoid, those of 
the upper lip abruptly acute, acu ish, or even acuminate; corolla 7-8 mm. long, 
iddle 
bout as wide s lon ng, notehed.—Swamps, marshes, stream-banks, woods, and 
ditehes. Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex.—(Mez.)—Spr.-sum 
M. Brownei (Sw.) Benth., a West Indian species with which the above species 
has been eonfused, but which differs in the size of the calyx and the shape of 
the calyx-lobes, as well as in size of plant, leaf, and flower, is not known 
occur in the continental U. 8. 
28. CLINOPODIUM L. Shrubs or annual or perennial herbs. Leaf- 
blades entire or toothed. Flowers in sessile or peduncled axillary cymes. 
Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip with 3 short lobes, the lower lip with 2 long, 
narrow lobes. Corolla 2-lipped: upper lip sometimes notched: lower lip 
3-lobed. Stamens 4: anthers awnless.—Spr.—fall, or all i; southward.— 
About 60 species, natives of the north temperate zone.—BASI 
Flowers in dense axillary clusters, thus forming head-like whorls, — by 
linear-filiform bractlets. "'ULGARIA. 
Mw few together or solitary in the axils of the leaves, with 
inute bractlets. 
Pl nis herbaceous. II. HERBACEA. 
Plants woody. III. FRUTICOSA. 
I. VULGARIA 
Stem hirsute: calyx-lobes hirsute: corolla slightly exceeding the 
calyx. 1. C. vulgare. 
II. 
Stem and leaves pubescent: leaf-blades ovate, often broadly so. 2. C. Nepeta. 
stem P leaves glabrous or nearly so: leaf-blades linear to 
ellipti 3. C. glabellum. 
III. FRUTICOSA 
Corolla over 2.5 cm. long, scarlet. 
Calyx s than 1. 2 s oe corolla 3—4 cm. long. 4. C. coccineum. 
Calyx r 1.5 cm. long: olla 4-5 em. long. 5. C. macrocalyz. 
Corolla je pues 2 cm. long, Eu or purplish. 
Leaf-blades toothed. broad and fiat. 
Clusters 5-6- flowered: leaf-blades sessile or nearly so. - C. georgianum. 
Clusters 1-3-flowered : leaf- n petiole C. dentatum. 
Leaf-blades entire, narrow and strongly revolute. & C. Ashei 
1. C. vulgare L. Stem 1-5 dm. tall, hirsute: blades of the upper leaves ovate 
to ovate-lanceolate, 1—4 cm. long, undulate or crenate: calyx becoming 8-9 
