DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Melissa, 
T- Flowers in whirls, 1 upon each fruit-stalk : stems up- A’cinos, 
d. 
right, somewhat branched: leaves acute, serrate 
Dicks. bh. s-CurtE. bot. 411—Kuiph. S—Riv. mon. 43. 2, 
Acinos=Clas, i. 354. 1-Dod. 280—Lob. chs. 270. 2, and 
ace i. 506. 1-Ger. em. 675. 1—Park, 21. 1-H. ox. xi. 18, 
row 1. 1—Pet. 32. 10—Fuchs. 896~F.B. iii. 259-Lonie. i. 
116. 3—F/. daz. 814—Trag. cient 548. 1—-Mazth. 815. 
Stems ascending. Leaves in distant 
Plant hairy. Calyx scored, at the fore or at the buses bitred. 
about the middle contracted, and then dilating into the lower 
lip: Mr. Hotterzar. The middle Acard of the lower lip of 
the blossom notched at the end. Bdossoms purple. 
(‘Wild Basil. Basil Thyme. Pd hills, bad on chalkand gravel. 
[Not unfrequent in Norfolk. - Woopwarp. and Surry. Sr. 
On the side of Hamilton, Wasksbire. Mr. Rosson. Wick Chifis, 
Mr. Swayne. St. Vincent’s Rocks. j A. June—Aug. 
MELIS’SA. Calyx dry, angular, the upper lip ex- 
panding and reflected : d/oss. upper lip some- 
what vaulted, cloven ; lower lip, the middle 
seginent heart- shaped. 
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M. Fruit-stalks —- Beas: longer than the leaves ; Nep’eta, 
| ing, 
stem ascen 
Riv. mon. 47, Calamen. ae fil incano~Gies. 1. 14~Curt.- 
Blackw. 167-Matth. 617-Dod. 98. 2-Lob. obs. 275. 1; 
and 1c. 1. 513. 2—Ger. em. 687. 2-Park. 37. 4. ce 
Fruit-stalks much longer than the leaves ; their branches 
again forked, the last generally bearing 3 flowers, the 2 outer of 
which havea pair of floral-leaves, the middle one cat Floral. 
éeaves very small, 1 pair oa a Boe of the fruit-stalks. 
Flowers very small, Woop L 
— sitting, egg-sha Fr rmittalls,: the forks subdivided 
with 3 to 6 fruit-stalks, each supporting a flower. Calyx coloured, 
ribbed, beset on the outside with short hairs as) shining glands, 
smooth within, but closed at : the mouth with = : or the 3 
x hers to which it nai seems to belong. In a garden the 
. leaves become six times” as large as in its natural soil, but the 
