436 CUHILA. No. 29. 



No. 



CUNILA MARIANA 



■ ExGLTsii Name— AMERICAN DITTAN¥% 



French Name — Cu>-ile u'ameuique. 

 Gekmax Name — Amektcaxische cunii-b. 

 OrFiciNAL Name — Cunila herba. 

 Vulgar Names— Mountain Dittany, Stone MinJ^^ 



WildBasilj Sweet Horsemint, &c. 



Authorities — Linnseus, Schoepf, Mich. Pursh; 

 Elliot, Torrey, Stokes, W. Barton, fig. 42, &c. 



Genus Ccnila — Calix tubular, striated with five 

 subequal teeth. Corolla tubular, ringcnt, tipper lip 

 erect flat emarginatc, lower lip three parted. Two 

 exerted fertile stan)ina, two sterile stam, very short. 

 Germen four lobed, style exerted, stigma lateral. 

 Four seeds Avilhin the calix closed by hairs. 



Species C. Makiaxa — Smooth, stems slender and 

 branched; leaves opposite, sessile, punctate, ovate, re- 

 mote, serrate; flowers in terminal fasciculate corymbs. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, fibrous, yel- 

 low. — Stem about a foot high, smooth, yellowish 

 or purplish; slender, hard brittle, with many brachi- 

 ate remote branches. — Leaves remote, sessile, smooth, 

 dotted, pale green, glaucous beneath, base subser- 

 date, end acuminate or sharp, margin with small 

 remote acute teeth, nerves regular, texture dry. 



Flowers small but hundsonit^ of a pink or white 



