lOlDIDYNAMlA— GYMNOSPERMIA.Clinopodiuni. 



minute, globular, solid, shining granulations, and soon 

 bursting in front into 2 cells. Gerin. 4-lobed, abrupt. 

 Style thread-sliaped, incurved. Stigma of two acute 

 spreading segments. Seeds 4-, quadrangular, abrupt, 

 hairy, in the tube of the slightly hardened, strongly vein- 

 ed calyx. 

 Herbaceous, erect, smooth or somewhat downy, rather 

 bitter than aromatic, with numerous, stalked, lobed or 

 cut leaves, and very copious whorls of shaggy purplish 

 Jlowers. 



]. L. Cardiaca. Common Motherwort. 



Upper leaves lanceolate, either three-lobed or undivided. 



L. Cardiaca. Liun.Sp PL 817. mild. v. 3. 114. Fl. Br. 637. 



Engl Bot. V. A. t. 286. Hook. Scot. 184. Fl. Dan. t. 727. Bull. 



Fr.t.273. Ehrh.Pl.Of.347. 

 Cardiaca. Rail Syn. 239. Ger. Em.705. f. Dorsten. Bot. 65.f. 



Fuchs. Hist. 395./. Matth. Valgr.v. 2. 472./. Camer. EjAt. 



864 f. Riv. Monop Irr. t.20.J. 1. 

 C. n.274. Hall. Hist. v.\.\]9. 

 Galeopsis urticis similis. Brunf. Herb. v. I. 155./ 158. 



About hedges, on a gravelly or calcareous soil. 



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

 Worksop. Hudson. Monmouthshire. Lighifoot in his herbarium. 

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

 parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, as about Norwich, Bungay, and at 

 Cove near Beccles. 



Perennial. July, August. 



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. Whorls 

 numerous, axillary, many-flov,'ered. 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 tliat 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. Gen. 296. Jiiss. 1 15. Fl. Br. 638. Tourn. t. 52. Lnm. 

 t.bW. 



