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Butterflies and Humble Bees obtain a great deal of food from the 

 flowers of this species, and so much frequent them as often to make the 

 banks where the plant grows seem alive with msect life. 



First record : Pohchele, 1797. 



CALAMINTHA, Moench. 



524. C. Clinopodium, Spenii. Wild Basil. 



Native ; on dry banks and in bushy places. Common. July, 

 August ; sometimes later, 

 c. I. Near St. Germans ; Keys, Fl. iii. 1S7. Between Antony and 

 Tregantle. Pillaton. 

 II. Trevol, near Torpoint ; Johns, Keys, ib. Near St. Johns village, 

 in a marsh by the Lake. Carkeel. Landulph. Between Penters 

 Cross and St. Mellion. Between Etheric and Cotehele Quav. 

 D. III. Plymouth and Saltash Road. Ham Lane. About Tamerton 

 Foliot. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Saltram ! near Plymouth, rarely white-flowered ; Keys, ib. Furze 

 Hill Lane, very sparingly, 1872. Mount Batten. Plymstock. 

 Staddon. Efford Lane. Egg Buckland ; near the village, 

 Common Wood, &c. 

 V. Wembury. Between Battisborough and Lolesbury. Dunstone. 

 Near Fordbrook. Lane between Yealmpton village and Yeo ; 

 a plant ^ith white flowers, and another Avith purphsh-white, 

 growing close to one mth them of the ordmary colom^, 1875. 

 VI.- Ivy bridge ; Keys, ib. Holbeton. Flete. 



Less common than C. menthifolia; doubtless in many parts of En<^land 

 the converse would be the case. 



525. C. Acinos, Clairv. Basil Thyme. 



Native or Colonist ; in fields, principally those of fodder grasses 

 and clovers ; on limestone rubble, and in other dry spots. 

 Rare. June to September. 



c. II. In considerable quantity in a grass-field between Rame Head 

 and Penlee Point, August, 1875. 



D. III. Hill between Blaxton and Maristow, July, 1845 ; Gould, and 

 Harper, S. D. Lit. Chron. 131 ; in plenty in a poor dry grass- 

 field m that neighbourhood, adjoining heathy ground ; many 

 plants with white flowers ; appearing also as a corn-field weed, 

 1868 ; still in the locality in a grass-field, some with white 

 flowers, 1871 ; species still there, 1877. Keyhani, 1847 ; Keys, 

 Fl. iii. 187 ; specimen thence in Herb. Easton. In a hay-field 

 above the western shore of Weston Mills Lake, 1875. A few 

 plants in a stubble-field above the left bank of the Tavy be- 

 tween Denham Bridge and Double Water, 1867. 



