CALAMINTHA 397 



First record. Wytham, Mrs. Westwood in Herb. Druce, 1838. 



1. Isis. Wytham, Westwood. Cuinnor. Faringdon. Coleshill. 



Longworth. 



2. Ock. Boar's Hill. Cuinnor. Besilsleigh. Sunningwell. 



Wittenham. Cothill. 

 8. Pang. Hermitage and Cold Ash Common, W. M. Rogers. Sulham, 

 Tiifnail. Bucklebury. Oare. Curridge. Bradfield. Basildon. 



4. Kennet. Aldermaston. Burghfield. Greenham. Snelsmore. 



Wickham. Inkpen. Sulhampstead. 



5. Loddon. Wargrave, ife/t)«7/, 1871. Sonning. Bearwood. Hurley. 



Bisham. Cookham. Stubbing's Heath. 

 T. Cfiamaedrys is recorded for all the bordering counties except East 

 Gloucestershire, in which county I have seen it near Fairford. 



CALAMINTHA, Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 393 (1778) ', (Tournefort, Inst. t. 92). 

 C. Clinopodiutn, Spenn. Handb. ii. 429 (1836). Wild Basil. 



C. vulgaris, inihi, not of Clairv. Clinopodium vulgare, Linn. Sp. PI. 587. 

 Melissa Clinopodium, Benth. Lab. 392. Acynos, Gerard, 548. 



Top. Bot. 310. Syme, E. B. viii. 31, t. 1047. Nyman, 587. Fl. Oxf. 235. 



Native. Septal. Hedges, banks, bushy places, wood-borders, more 

 frequent on calcareous soils, but not restricted to them. Rather 

 common and too widely distributed to need special localities 

 being given. P. July-September. 



First record. * Clinopodium ... I heare saye that it groweth . . . about 



Oxford. It may be called in englishe horse Tyme because it is like 



Great Tyme,' Turner's Names of Herbes, 15482. 



C. Clinopodium occurs in all the bordering counties. 



C. arvensis, Lam. Fi. Fr. ii. 394 (1778). Common Basil Thyme. 



C. Acinos, Clairv. Man. 197 (iSii). Thymus Acinos, Linn. Sp. PI. 591. 



Acinos, Fuchs. Clinopodium Acinos, Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 513 (1891). 

 Top. Bot. 308. Syme, E. B. vii. 32, t. 1048. Nyman, 588. Fl. Oxf. 236. 

 Native. Agrestal. Dry sandy and calcareous fields, dry banks and 



roadsides. Local. A. or B. June-October. 

 First record. Calamint. This growes upon Hinksey and Botley Hills, 



MS. in Lyte's Ilerball, 1660. Thymus Acinos, Mr. Gotobed in Boi. 



Guide, 1805, and Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Carswell, Miss M. Niven. Cumnor. 



2. Ock. Hinksey and Botley Hills, MS. in Lyte. On the Ridgeway, 



WhitweU. Marcham, Walker. Rail way- side, Den ch worth. Wait. 

 Tubney. Boar's Hill. On a wall-top at Ferry Hinksey. Blew- 

 bury. jChallow. Wantage. Lowbury. Chilton. 



^ See also Adans. Fam. ii. 192. 



^ Figured and described in Turner's Herbal (1568). 



