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true Sages. The flowers are yello\^dsli white, arranged in pairs 

 on terminal and axillary racemes, with a small bract at the foot 

 of each short flower-stalk. Although not very conspicuous, they 

 are very attractive to bees, pro\'iding abundance of nectar. There 

 is no true upper lip to the corolla, the upper part being deeply cleft, 



The Wild Thyme. 



with a small lobe on each side ; and the stamens and stigma project 

 beyond the petals. This plant flowers dmdng July and August. 



On moist heaths, especially in the west of Britain, we commonly 

 meet wdth the Lesser Skull-cap {Scutellaria minor), another of the 

 Labiates. It is a little plant, seldom more than six inches high, 

 with pale pink flowers that bloom from July to October. The stem 



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