DIDYNAMIA— GYIvINOSPERMIA.Clinopodium.103 



bitter than aromatic, with numerous, stalked, lobed or 

 cut leaves.) and very copious xahorls of shaggy pur[)li^>h 

 Jlo-voers. 



] . L. Cardiaca. Common Motherwort. 



Upper leaves lanceolate, either three-lobed or undivided. 



L. Cardiaca. Llnyi. Sp. PL 817. rVillil. v. 3. 114. FL Br. 637. 

 Engl. But. V. \. t. 286. Hook. Scot. 184. FL Dan. t. 727. BulL 

 Fr. t. 273. Ehrh. PL Off. 347. 



Cardiaca. Rail Syn. 239. Ger. Em. 70o.f. Dorstcn. Bat. 65./. 

 Fuchs. HisL39o.f. Malth. Falgr.v. 2. 472./. Camer. Epit. 

 864./. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 20./. 1. 



C. n.274. HalL Hist.v.\.\\9. 



Galeopsis uvticis similis. Brunf, Herb. v. I. 155./. 158. 



About hedges, on a gravelly or calcareous soil. 



In Selsey island, Sussex ; and between Tickhill, Yorkshire, and 

 VVorksop. Hudson. Monmouthshire. Ligltffuot in his herbarirtm. 

 In a lane near Combe wood, Surrey. Mr. Sowerby. In several 

 parts of Norfolk and Sufl'olk, as about Norwich, Bungay, and at 

 Cove near Beccles. 



Perennial. July, Jugust. 



Herb bitter, with a pungent disagreeable smell. Stems 2 or 3 feet 

 high, wand-like, minutely downy, acutely quadrangular, with 

 intermediate channels, purplish, beset with very numerous pairs 

 of long-stalked, dark green, somewhat downy leaves ; the low- 

 ermost broadest, and deeply jagged ; upper ones acutely three- 

 lobed ; those about the summit lanceolate and undivided. IVhorb 

 numerous, axillary, many-flowered. Calyx rigid and pungent. 

 Cor. purplish ; the upper lip clothed with dense, white, shaggy, 

 upright hairs ; lower deeper coloured, variegated, smooth, in 

 3 nearly equal, entire lobes. 



The reputed tonic powers of this herb, or its use in palpitations 

 of the heart, or in that disease of the stomach called heart- 

 burn, are now little regarded. Yet hence originated its old ap- 

 pellation of Cardiaca. 



297. CLINOPODIUM. Wild Basil. 



Linn. GeH.296. Juss.Wb. FL Br. 638. Tourn. t. 92. Lam. t.bW. 



Involucrum of numerous taper leaves, under the flowei's, 

 nearly equal to the calyx in length, permanent. CaL tu- 

 bular, many-ribbed, slightly curved, two-lipped; upper 

 lip broadest, ascending, in 3 deep acute equal segments ; 

 lower longest, incurved, in 2 deep slender segments ; 

 throat closed with converging hairs. Cor. ringent; tube 

 cylindrical, rather short; throat longer and wider; up- 

 })er liji erect, concave, obtuse, slightly cloven ; lower in 



