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Scutellaria purpurascens S\v., WEST INDIAN SKULLCAP, a low, purple- 

 flowered Labiate, the calyx bearing a crest on the upper side, is recorded as 

 Bermudan by Lefroy, who indicates it as naturalized, but it has not been, 

 observed by other botanists, and either the record or the determination are 

 supposed to be erroneous. It is a plant unlikely to become naturalized. 



Koellia mutica (Michx.) Britton, one of the North American Moun- 

 tain-mints, was credited to Bermuda by Eein, apparently an error in identi- 

 fication, but what plant that author had in mind has not been determined. 

 [Pycnanihenwrn muticum Michx.] 



Nepeta Cataria L., CATNEP OB CATMINT, European, an erect, finely 

 tomentose perennial, with ovate, crenate-dentate leaves, the clusters of nearly 

 white flowers in terminal spikes, the tubular calyx 15-nerved, is grown in 

 gardens. Lefroy states that it was common, in Pembroke Marsh prior to 

 1879, and erroneously indicates it as a native species. It is not known to be 

 wild in Bermuda today. The plant commonly called Catnep here is Clino- 

 podium Calamintha. 



Marrubium vulgare L., HOREHOUND, European, occasionally grown in 

 gardens, is an erect perennial, l-3 high, the stem whitish-woolly, the rugose 

 dentate oval to nearly orbicular leaves l'-2' long, the whitish flowers in dense 

 axillary cluster?, the tubular calyx about 10-nerved. 



Melissa officinalis L., BALM OR BEE-BALM, European, occasional in gar- 

 dens, is a hairy perennial, l-3 high, with blunt ovate toothed leaves, the 

 small white flowers in axillary clusters, the oblong-campanulate calyx 13- 

 nerved, 2-lipped. 



Thymus vulgaris L., THYME, is a low, shrubby plant, with slender, finely 

 hairy stems up to 1 high, branched, and commonly matted; the thick, blunt, 

 entire, dotted leaves are only 2" 5" long, and the small purple flowers are in 

 small glomerules, the 10-13-nerved calyx 2-lipped. It is frequently grown in 

 gardens, or as a crop, and is native of southern Europe and western Asia. 



Satureia montana L., WINTER SAVORY, European, occasionally cultivated 

 for flavoring, is a perennial herb, with somewhat woody, branching stems, 

 1A high or less, pointed narrowly oblong, punctate leaves 6"-10" long, and 

 small, white to lilac flowers in loose clusters. 



Origanum Marjorana L., SWEET MARJORAM, European, grown in gardens 

 for flavoring, is a perennial herb about 2 high, with slender, finely tomentose 

 branches, gray-green oval obtuse entire petioled leaves about *' long and 

 small purplish flowers in solitary or clustered oblong obtuse dense spikes about 

 ' long, the calyx 2-lipped, the bracts suborbieular. 



Ocimum basilicum L., BASIL, East Indian, cultivated for flavoring, is 

 annual, 1-1A high, with thin petioled dentate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves l'-2' long, and bluish or white small flowers whorled in interrupted 

 terminal spikes, the calyx deflexed in fruit and strongly veined. Lefroy notes 

 that it was introduced in 1616. 



Lavendula spica Cav., WHITE LAVENDER, of southern Europe, grown in 

 gardens, is a perennial herb l-li high, with linear or linear-spatulate entire 

 leaves l'-3' long, crowded below the middle of the stem, densely white-silvery, 

 the small blue flowers in terminal, long-peduncled, short spikes, the 5-toothed 

 calyx striate-nerved, the corolla-lobes nearly equal. 



Coleus varieties are commonly planted as ornamentals for their colored 

 and variegated foliage. 



