﻿MINT 
  FAMILY 
  213 
  

  

  at 
  the 
  base, 
  rather 
  obtuse 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  Calyx 
  bristly, 
  the 
  lance-a\vl- 
  

   shaped 
  teeth 
  rather 
  spiny. 
  Upper 
  lip 
  of 
  the 
  corolla 
  downy. 
  In 
  wet 
  

   soil, 
  especially 
  N. 
  

  

  2. 
  S. 
  tenuifolia 
  Willd., 
  var. 
  aspera. 
  Taller 
  than 
  No. 
  1; 
  angles 
  of 
  

   the 
  stem 
  covered 
  with 
  stiff 
  reflexed 
  bristles, 
  but 
  the 
  sides 
  often 
  

   smooth. 
  Leaves 
  serrate, 
  nearly 
  all 
  with 
  distinct 
  petioles. 
  Calyx 
  

   usually 
  smooth. 
  Corolla 
  smooth 
  throughout. 
  Damp 
  thickets 
  and 
  

  

  along 
  streams. 
  

  

  VIII. 
  SALVIA 
  L. 
  

  

  Annual, 
  biennial, 
  or 
  perennial 
  herbs, 
  or 
  sometimes 
  shrubby. 
  

   Flowers 
  in 
  spikes, 
  racemes, 
  or 
  panicles, 
  usually 
  showy. 
  Calyx 
  

   tubular 
  or 
  bell-shaped, 
  not 
  bearded 
  in 
  the 
  throat, 
  2-lipped, 
  

   the 
  upper 
  lip 
  entire 
  or 
  3-toothed, 
  the 
  lower 
  2-cleft. 
  Corolla 
  

   2-lipped 
  ; 
  the 
  upper 
  lip 
  entire 
  or 
  notched, 
  the 
  lower 
  spread- 
  

   ing, 
  3-lobed, 
  with 
  the 
  middle 
  lobe 
  longer. 
  Stamens 
  2, 
  short 
  ; 
  

   anthers 
  2-celled, 
  the 
  upper 
  cell 
  fertile, 
  the 
  lower 
  imperfect. 
  

   Style 
  2-cleft. 
  Nutlets 
  smooth.* 
  

  

  1. 
  S. 
  lyrata 
  L. 
  LYKE-LEAVED 
  SALVIA. 
  Biennial 
  or 
  perennial 
  ; 
  

   stem 
  erect, 
  sparingly 
  branched 
  above, 
  rough-hairy, 
  1-2 
  ft. 
  high. 
  

   Leaves 
  mostly 
  basal, 
  spreading, 
  lyrate-pinnatifid, 
  usually 
  purple; 
  

   stem 
  leaves 
  small, 
  sessile 
  or 
  short-petioled. 
  Racemes 
  many-flowered, 
  

   whorls 
  about 
  6-flowered. 
  Calyx 
  teeth 
  short 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  lip, 
  long 
  

   and 
  awl-shaped 
  on 
  the 
  lower. 
  Corolla 
  blue 
  or 
  purple; 
  the 
  tube 
  about 
  

   1 
  in. 
  long, 
  dilated 
  upward. 
  On 
  dry 
  soil.* 
  

  

  2. 
  S. 
  officinalis 
  L. 
  GARDEN 
  SAGE. 
  Stem 
  shrubby, 
  slender, 
  much 
  

   branched 
  below, 
  1 
  ft. 
  high. 
  Leaves 
  grayish-green, 
  lance-oblong, 
  cre- 
  

   nate, 
  wrinkled. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  terminal 
  spikes, 
  whorls 
  several-flowered. 
  

   Corolla 
  blue, 
  upper 
  lip 
  strongly 
  arched, 
  about 
  equaling 
  the 
  lower. 
  

   A 
  common 
  garden 
  herb. 
  Cultivated 
  from 
  Europe.* 
  

  

  IX. 
  THYMUS 
  L. 
  

  

  Small, 
  much-branched 
  shrubs, 
  very 
  aromatic. 
  Leaves 
  small, 
  

   entire, 
  margins 
  often 
  rolled 
  under. 
  Whorls 
  of 
  flowers 
  few- 
  

   flowered, 
  in 
  loose 
  or 
  close 
  spikes 
  ; 
  bracts 
  very 
  small 
  ; 
  flowers 
  

   usually 
  purple. 
  Calyx 
  ovoid, 
  2-lipped 
  ; 
  upper 
  lip 
  3-toothed 
  ; 
  

   lower 
  2-cleft, 
  woolly 
  in 
  the 
  throat. 
  Corolla 
  slightly 
  2-lipped. 
  

   Stamens 
  4, 
  usually 
  projecting 
  from 
  the 
  flower, 
  straight 
  ; 
  lower 
  

   pair 
  longer. 
  

  

  1. 
  T. 
  Serpyllum 
  L. 
  CREEPING 
  THYME. 
  Smooth 
  or 
  hairy, 
  stem 
  

   prostrate, 
  the 
  flowering 
  branches 
  somewhat 
  ascending. 
  Leaves 
  

  

  