DIDYNAMIA-GYMNOSPERMIA. Melittls. Ill 



shallow notch ; lower in 3 lobes, the middlemost largest, in- 

 versely heart-shaped. 

 The whole plant has a peculiarly sweet aromatic flavour, and makes 

 a pleasant tea, especially mixed with smaller portions of Pep- 

 per-raint, Balm, or some others of the same natural family. 



4. T. Nepeta. Lesser Calamint. 



Whorls on forked many-flowered stalks, longer than the 

 adjoining leaf. Leaves serrated. Hairs in the mouth of 

 the calyx prominent. 



T. Nepeta. H. Br. 642. Eiigl. Bot.v.2Q.t.\A\A. Relh. 239. 



Melissa Nepeta. Linn. Sp. PL 828. fVilld. v. 3. 147. Curt. Loncl. 

 fuse. 6. t.40. 



M. n. 240. Hall. Hist. v.\.]05. 



Calamintha odore pulegii. Rail Syn. 243. Ger. Em. 687./. 



C, montana. Matth. J'algr.v. 2.77./. Camer. Epit. 482./. 



C. folio incano. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 47. 



On dry banks, and by way sides, on a chalky soil, plentifully. 



Perennial. August. 



Rather smaller in every part than the last, especially the leaves, 

 which nevertheless are more strongly serrated. The flower- 

 stalks are more compound, much longer than the adjoining 

 leaves. The odour of the herbage is very strong, resembling 

 Mentha Pule gium. The very prominent and conspicuous white 

 hairs, in the mouth of the calyx, afford an obvious distinction 

 between this and T. Calamintha. 



300. MELITTIS. Bastard-Balm. 



Linn. Gen. 299. Juss. 116. FL Br. 643. Lam. t. 5 13. 



Cal, bell-shaped, slightly angular, direct, somewhat two- 

 lipped, variously lobed ; upper lip rather longest, acute ; 

 lower rather shorter, acute, deeply cloven. Cor. rin- 

 gent; tube much narrower than the calyx; throat a little 

 dilated; upper lip erect, rounded, entire, slightly con- 

 cave ; lower spreading, in 3 deep obtuse lobes, the mid- 

 dle one largest, inversely heart-shaped. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, straight, shorter than the upper lip, the 2 inter- 

 mediate ones shortest. Anth. two-lobed, converging in 

 pairs forming a double cross. Germ, in 4 obtuse downy 

 lobes. Style thread-shaped, reaching to the anthers. 

 Stigma cloven, acute. Seeds 4, oval, small, in the bottom 

 of the open unaltered calyx. 



Herbs which acquire in drying the scent of hay. Steins 

 mostly simple, leafy, erect, 18 inches high, square, rough 

 with spreading or deflexed hairs. Leaves stalked, ovate, 

 serrated. Fl. large, handsomely variegated with purple 



