362 LABIATE. Hedeoma. 



§ 1. EuHEDEOMA, Gray, 1. c. Flowers pedicellate, cymulose or rarely sub- 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, the uppermost of which are sometimes dimin- 

 ished and bract-like : corolla with an even open throat : throat of the calyx in 

 fruit closed with a ring of villous hairs (except in H. acinoides) : low and diffuse 

 or much branched herbs, of dry soil, pungently sweet-aromatic, with small and 

 whitish or purplish flowers : pubescence of the stem usually retrorse. 



i(: Filaments of the posterior stamens manifest, bearing a capitate rudiment or sometimes a polli- 

 niferous anther: calyx rather short, conspicuously bilabiate; its upper ami lower lips very 

 dissimilar. 



H. pulegioides, Pers, (American Pennyroyal.) Annual, erect, minutely pubes- 

 cent : leaves ovate or oblong, somewhat serrate, narrowed at base into a slender petiole ; 

 floral similar or the upper merely smaller : calyx in fruit ovate-campanulate or oblong, 

 strongly gibbous ; upper lip broad and spreading, with 3 triangular teeth, about equalling 

 the two setaceous-subulate and hispid-ciliate teeth : corolla hardly exserted, 2 or 3 lines 

 long. — Syn. ii. 131 ; Bart. Med. t. 41. Melissa & Cunila pulegioides, L. Canada to Io%va 

 and southward; common. 



* * Filaments of the posterior stamens minute subulate rudiments, or sometimes obsolete : teeth 

 of both lips of the calyx subulate, 



-1— About equal in length, all erect or in fruit curved upward : bracts linear or acerose-subulate, 

 spreading or at length reflexed : erect annuals, with the upper flowers somewhat capitately or 

 spicately crowded. 



H. acinoides, Scheele. Minutely pubescent, slender: leaves nearly glabrous, thinnish, 

 slender-petioled, obscurely denticulate ; the lower ovate, upper oblong, or the upper floral 

 oblong-Unear : bracts equalling the slender pedicels : calyx tubidar, gibbous at base (3 lines 

 long), barely hairy in the throat; limb slightly bilabiate; the teeth setaceous-subulate, 

 minutely ciliate, barely one-third the length of the tube: tube of the purple corolla 

 exserted, slender (4 lines long) ; its lower lip much larger than the upper, and middle lobe 

 deeply emarginate. — Linn. xxii. 592 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 306. — Arkansas, Leaven- 

 worth. Texas, Wrifjht, Lindhcimer, &c. 



H. hispida, Pursh. Mostly low : leaves all similar, linear, entire, thickish, somewhat 

 nervose-vcincd, nearly sessile, crowded, almost glabrous, but their margins at least towards 

 the base hispid-ciliate : bracts mostly equalling the calyx, rigid : limb of the calyx bilabi- 

 ate ; the lips about half the length of the oblong gibbous hispid tube ; the teeth of the 

 upper subulate, of the lower more aristiform and hispid, equalling the (3 lines long) bluish 

 corolla. — Fl. ii. 414. //. hirta, Nutt. Gen. i. 10. Cunila hispida, Spreng. Syst. i. 54. — 

 Plains west of the Mississippi, from Dakota to Louisiana and Arkansas; also Illinois, 

 there apparently lately introduced. 



•h- +- Two lower calyx-teeth decidedly longer than the three upper: bracts mostly erect and 

 subulate. 



•H- Leaves entire, or in the first species with rare and obscure denticulations or crenulations, into 

 which the few and inconspicuous veins do not run: root either indurated and perduriug-annual or 

 pcreiniial. 



H. thymoides. Cinereous-pubescent or puberulcnt, about a span high, at length diffusely 

 branched from the base : leaves ovate, obtuse (3 to 5 lines long), pctioled ; the lower little 

 exceeding and the upper shorter than the flowers : bracts mostly subulate and shorter than 

 the pedicels : calyx oblong-tubular and at length rather strongly gibbous (the tube 1^ or 2 

 lines and the setaceous lower teeth a line or sometimes more in length) ; teeth of the upper 

 lip recurved away from the straightish and moderately longer lower ones : corolla little ex- 

 serted, only 3 lines long. — //. dentala, var. nana, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 130. //. piperita ? 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 366, notBenth., which must have much larger calyx, flat pedicels, 

 and more crenate leaves. — E. New Mexico to Arizona, Wright, J3i(jdow, Palmer, &c. 



Var. oblongif olia. Stems erect, even strict, sometimes a foot high : leaves oblong, 

 or the lower ovate, shorter-petioled ; the reduced floral ones subsessile and acute. — //. 

 piperita, var. olilonr/i folia. Gray, 1. c. — New Mexico and Arizona; same collectors. 



H. Drumraondi, Benth. Cinereous-pubescent or puberulcnt, a span or two high, 

 copiously l)ranched : leaves from oblong (or the lowest oval) to linear, obtuse, subsessile, 

 or narrowed at base into a very short petiole, thickish ; the upper mostly rather shorter 

 than the few flowers in their axils : small subulate bracts not longer than the pedicels : 



