DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMTA, 89 
= A considerable genus, chiefly indigenous to the south 
of Europe, but extending into Barbary and the Levant. 
418, CALAMINTHA. Tournefort. 
— Calix after flowering closed’ with’ villous 
hairs, Orifice of the corolla somewhat inflated, 
_upper lip emarginate; lower 3-parted, interme- 
diate segment entire, subemarginate oF. crenu- 
7 late. te 2 
: Herbaceous or suffruticose; pode many flowered. 
‘Spectres. t. C. Nepeta. 2. carsliniana. caro- 
Gnianus. Mich. 2. p- 9. Suffruticose: leaves’ lavietolate- 
oyate, entire, smooth and opaque; Margimpartly revolute; 
verticills many-flowered, subpedunculate;_ pp lip_of 
the calix 3-toothed, phuite—dien! A few. from Au- 
gusta in Seorkis. Bractes SIR oles een’ a 
~ tomentose villus; leaves aye ade te The 
eGvoliniana of Walter, to gO oat ras 
Thymbra 
tions of Mr. Elliott, constitutes new ait distinct genus. 
A small genus almost exclusi pe palsies to the 
-s6ath oF Eaope. 
419. TRICHO 
ae Cdliat resupinate. — j aa ib : €or 
fatcate. Stamina very fet | incurve 
: 
| . 
| —~ Annual; ‘decussately branched; flowers solit#ty, each 
F 4 - bibracteates at length developed in dichotomoits fianicles, 
blue, sometimes white-—Seeds rugose. Aroma of the 
whole plant, balsamic, not t pungent, se Bose to that 
of Isanthus. sd 
Species. 1. T. dichotoma. Leaves oblong. oval 
tenuated towards the base, pubescent; stamina very 
2. “linearis. Lea) linear, smooth, acts 
‘son nd, dentures of the cali 
mina very long. Has. — 
fields of New Jersey, also in. 
ip in, in arid sitwations. “After r 
i ar ly satisfied of the specific dis 
this plant, considered as a variety of the pi 
= it is much rarer, and always sma 
invariably smooth and rather thick, 
lant is > hemiared ee a viscid 
