360 LABIATE. Calamintha. 



H + Indigenous on wet limestone river-banks, glabrous or nearly so, except a villous ring in the 

 throat of the calyx: common peduncles in the axils hardly any: pedicels 1 to 5 : conspicuous 

 bracts at their base subulate-acuminate : petioles short or none. 



C. glabella, Benth. Stems lax or decumbent, a foot or two long: leaves oblong or 

 broadly lanceolate with tapering base; the larger ones serrate: axils 3-5-flowered : calyx- 

 teeth of both lips attenuate-subulate : corolla nearly half inch long, barety twice the length 

 of the calyx. DC. Prodr. xii. 230. Cuiiila (jlabella, JAichx. Fl. i. 13. Zizophora yhilie/la, 

 Roam. & Sch. Syst. i. 209. Banks of the Cumberland near Nashville (Michaux) and of the 

 Kentucky River near Frankfort, SI tort & Peter. 



C. Nuttallii, Benth. 1 c. Stems slender, branching, erect or ascending, a span or two 

 high, copiously stoloniferous at base: leaves entire, thickish and veinless, with slightly 

 revolute margins; cauline linear or the lower spatulate, sessile, 5 to 9 lines long; those of 

 the creeping stolons ovate and orbicular, short-petioled, 2 or 3 lines long : flowers 1 to 

 3 in the axils: corolla a third of an inch long, fully twice the length of the calyx. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 1 (1848), 325. Hedcoma ylubra, Nutt. Gen. i. 16. H. Arkansana, Nutt. in 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. v. 186. Cimila r/labra, Torr. Fl. 23. Micromeria glabella 

 (mainly) & 31. Arkansuna, Benth. Lab. 730, 871. M. ylabella, var. august /folia, Torr. Fl. 

 N. Y. ii. 07. Culamintha ylabella, var. Nuttallii, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 307, ed. 5, 349. Niagara 

 Falls to Lake Superior, S. Missouri to Texas. 



* * More or less woody or shrubby at base : a foot or t\\o high : lips of the calyx-teeth more un- 

 equal ; the broader upper one barely and mostly obtusely 3-tootliecl. 



C. Caroliniana, Sweet. Nearly glabrous: leaves ovate, obtuse, somewhat crenate 

 (6 to 14 lines long), abruptly narrowed into a short petiole : flowers few or several in the 

 axils, in a crowded subsessile cyme : bracts foliaceous : calyx oblong, strongly striate, very 

 villous in the throat, scarcely gibbous : corolla pink-purple or whitish and purple-spotted, 

 half inch long; the upper lip somewhat concave and incurved. Hort. Brit. 809; Bcnth. 

 in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 229. Thi/mns Carolinianus, Michx. ii. 9. T. grand/floras, Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 997. Melissa Caroliniana, Benth. Lab. 388. Dry ground, N. Carolina to Florida. 



C. COCCinea, Bentll. 1- c. Very minutely cinereous-pnberulent or glabrous, bushy : 

 branches virgate : leaves obovate or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, subsessile, entire or obscurely 

 crenate, with somewhat revolute margins, thickish, veinless, about half inch long : short 

 peduncles 1-3-flowered : corolla scarlet, narrow, inch and a half long ; the lips much 

 shorter than the tube. Melissa coccinea, Spreng. Syst. ii. 224. Cimila coccinea, Nutt. ; Hook. 

 Kxot. Fl. 1. 163. Ganlotiuin Hoo/ccri, Benth. Lab. 401 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1747; Brit. Fl. Card. 

 ser. 2, t. 271. Satiirci<t coccinea, Bertol. Misc. viii. 23. Sandy soil, W. Florida to Mobile, 

 Alabama, near the shore ; flowering late. 



C. dentata, Chapm. Tomentulose-cinereous, diffuse!)' branched : leaves obovate or 

 somewhat cuneate, few-toothed at the rounded apex, snbsessile, canescent and obscurely 

 veined beneath : flowers solitary or in threes, short-pedicelled : calyx shorter than in the 

 preceding ; the short obscurely 3-tootlied upper lip tinged with purple ; subulate teeth of 

 the lower lip hairy: "upper stamens abbreviated, sterile."- -Fl. 118. Sand ridges near 

 Aspalaga, W. Florida, Chapman. In foliage, &c. much resembles C. coccinea, apparently 

 smaller-flowered: no perfect corolla seen. 



* * * Herbaceous to (lie base? and large-flowered: calyx less bilabiate; the teeth of the upper 

 lip very like those of the lower: corolla orange. 



C. mimuloides, Benth. Tall, somewhat viscidly hirsute : leaves ovate, coarsely ser- 

 rate, membranaceous, on slender petioles: flowers mostly solitary in the axils, on slender 

 pedicels foliaceous-bracteate at base: calyx tubular (8 lines long), nearly naked in the 

 throat; the teeth cuspidate from a broad ovate or triangular base, equal in length, those 

 of the upper lij) spreading: corolla inch and a half long, with a narrow tube twice the 

 length of the calyx. PI. Hartw. 33. California, on shady banks of Carmel River, near 

 Monterey, I/a rl wry. 



2. CLINOPODIUM, Benth. Flowers verticillastrate-capitate, and as it were 

 involucrate with conspicuous setaceous-subulate rigid bracts : calyx nearly naked 

 in the throat: anthers naked. 



C. Clinopodium, Benth. (BASIL.) Herbaceous, hirsute : leaves ovate, obtuse, almost 

 entire, petioled : verticillastrate heads globular, many-flowered : teeth of the narrow tubu- 



