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Characterized by its pairs of large, pretty blue flowers, in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, and all pointing one way. 



26. Small Skull-cap — {Scutellaria 7n'mor.) 

 Heathy moors, rare. Plentiful in a marshy place on the right hand 

 side of the road ascending to Bill's-o'-Jack's, Greenfield, not far from 

 the brook-side, and about half-a-mile before reaching the house, — the 

 same locality as that of the Hypericum Elodes. Found also on Lin- 

 dow Common and Hale Moss. Fl. July, August. 

 Curtis, ii. 203 ; E. B. viii. 521. 



27. White Horehoitnd — [Marriibium vulgdre.) 



Waste places and waysides about Mobberley. Lane leading from: 

 Mobberley Church to Tipping's Brow. Fl. August. 



E.B. vi. 410. 

 Some suppositious species oi Mentha have been found at Chorlton, etc.; and 

 as soon as Congleton and the limestone districts of Derbyshii-e are approached, 

 beyond Disley and thereabouts, but rather further than the limits of our Flora, 

 the wild-thyme and the wild-marjoram make their appearance. (Thymus Ser- 

 pyllum, Curtis, i. 120 ; and Origanum vulgare, Curtis, ii. 331.) 



In the Labiatse are comprised most of the kitchen-garden plants known as 

 " pot-herbs," and nearly all that are valued for their aromatic secretions, viz. : — 



Common or Spear -mint Mentha viridis. (E. B. xxxiv. 2424.) 



Bergamot Mentha citrata. 



Pennyroyal Mentha Pulegium. 



Peppermint Mentha piperita. 



Common Sage Salvia officinalis. 



Marjoram Origanum Majorana. 



Common Thyme Thymus vulgaris. 



Lemon Thyme Thymus citriodorus. 



Basil Ocymum minimum. 



Balm Melissa officinalis. 



Rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis. 



Lavender Lavandula spica. 



Hyssop Hyssopus officinalis. 



Savory Satureja montana. 



There is a long list also of ornamental species, some of them of singular beauty. 

 Such are the crimson and fragrant Monarda didyma; the blazing scarlet Salvias, 

 including S.fulgens, with the calj'x green, and S. splendens, in which it is of the 

 same colour as the corolla; the deep blue Salvia patens, and the curious plants 

 called clary, or Salvia Sclarea and Salvia Horminum. Among the commonest 

 are the blotch-leaved dead-nettle, or Lamium maculatum, and the blue germander, 

 or Teucrium Polium, with hoary foliage. There are species also of the genera 



