110 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Thymus. 



C. vulgare. Lob.Ic. 506.f. 



Acinos. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 43./. 2. 



A. multis. Baii Syn. 238. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 259./. 



Ocymum sylvestre. Ger. Em. 675./. 



Ocimastrum. Fuchs. Hist. 896. f. 



Small Wild Basil. Pet. H. Brit. t. 32./. 10. 



In cultivated fields, especially on a sandy, gravelly, or chalky soil. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root f[\ixom, small, bearing several branched, spreading, wavy, 

 leafy stems, near a span high ; their angles blunt ; the opposite 

 sides most dovv'ny. Leaves rather larger than the preceding, 

 stalked, ovate, acute, slightly revolute, and bluntly serrated ; 

 rough at the edges and veins ; scarcely dotted, and but slightly 

 aromatic, Fl. in several axillary whorls, usually 6 in each, of a 

 blueish purple, prettily variegated about the lip, with white and 

 a darker purple, the central lobe being dilated and slightly 

 notched. Cal. much swelled in front after flowering. The 

 leaves are occasionally entire. 



3. T. Calamintha. Common Calamint. 



Whorls on forked, many-flowered stalks. Leaves with shal- 

 low serratures. Hairs in the mouth of the calyx not 

 prominent. 



T. Calamintha. Scop. Cam. ed.2.v.\.A2'j. FLBr.G4\. Engl.Bot. 

 V. 24. <. 1676. Relh. 238. 



MelissaCalammthsi. Linn. Sp. Pl.827 . miUl.v.3.l47. Huds.263. 

 Purt. V. 1. 284. Bull. Fr. t. 25 1. Ehrh. PL Of. 136. 



M. n. 241. Hall. Hist. v.\.\05. 



Calamintha. Matth. Falgr.v.2. 76./. Camer. Epit. 48\ .f. Riv. 

 Monop. Irr. f. 46./. 2. 



C. vulgaris. Raii Syn. 243. 



C. vulgaris officinarum. Ger. Em. 687./. 



C. montana. Dad. Pempt. 98. f. 



C. montana vulgaris. Lob. Ic. 513./. 



By way sides, and about the borders of fields, chiefly on a gra- 

 velly soil, but seldom in any quantity. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Stem erect, bushy, downy like the whole of the herbage. Leaves 

 .stalked, ovate, about an inch long, marked with pellucid dots j 

 paler and most hoary underneath. Flower-stalks axillary, soli- 

 tary, opposite, forked and many-flowered, making a spurious 

 kind of M;/iorZ, with awl-shaped bracteas at their principal sub- 

 divisions. Cal. exactly that of a Thymus, swelling a little at 

 the base in front ; the 2 lower teeth long and fringed, as in T. 

 Serpylbtm ; the tube closed with white, converging hairs, which 

 however do not project so far as to be conspicuous. Cor. twice 

 the length of the calyx, light purple dotted with violet, downy ; 

 its upper lip somewhat concave, but the margin is erect, with a 



