WOOD BASIL 217 
close, stalked leaves, egg-shaped to heart-shaped, rather coarsely 
toothed, and acute. 
The flowers are pink, borne in axillary clusters, dense, and branched. 
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Nh EG . 
Photo. Messrs. Flatters & Garnett 
Woop Basi (Clinopodium vulgare, L.) 
The calyx is bristly, striate or finely furrowed, and an involucre of fine 
bristles is formed. The two upper teeth are connected below into an 
upper lip. The clusters or whorls in which the flowers are borne are 
equal, and the upper ones are terminal. The flowers are numerous, 
and formed on slender flower-stalks. 
