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upper lip of the corolla ; anther-cells at length divci'ging at the base, 

 not contiguous at the apex. 



Herbs or undershrubs of various habit. 



The derivation of tlie name of this genus of plants appears to bo from ku\()^ (kalos), 

 fircct, and fiiiOa (mintha), iniiit. 



Sub-Genus L— CLIXOPODIUM. LIrm. 



Verticillasters man3'-flowered ; the cymes with a very short common 

 peduncle, or -without any. Bracteoles setaceous, numerous, forming a 

 kind of involucre to tlie whorl. Calyx tube slightly curved, not con- 

 spicuously giltbous on the under side. 



SPECIES I.-CAL AM INT HA CLINOPODIUM. -V"'- 



Pr.ATi; MXLVII. 



I?o!ch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCLXXIV. Fig. 1. 



nm„f, Fl. Gall, ct Germ. Exsioc. No. COS. 



Cliuopodium \'nlgare, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1401. et Aucf. rhn: 



Leaves ovate or deltoid- or rhombic- or lanceolate-ovate, subobtusc 

 or subacute, repand or faintly crenate-serrate. Flowers in a termi- 

 nal head, witli distant whorls beneath it ; verticillasters very shortly 

 stalked. Bracts setaceous, as long as the pedicels and calyx. Calyx 

 erect on the pedicel; tube slightly curved, indistinctly gibbous at its 

 l)ase below; teeth two-thirds the length of the tube, the 3 upper tri- 

 angular, abruptly acuminated into subulate points, straight, diverging, 

 the 2 lower subulate and slightly curved upwards. Corolla 2 to 3 

 times as long as the calyx, hairy on the outside; upper lip emarginate, 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip larger than the others and emarginate. 



In bushy ])laces, hedges, and open woods. Common, and generally 

 distributed throughout the kingdom; reaching north to Moray, Aber- 

 deen, and Lanark. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock woody, shortly creeping, much branched, in autumn jiro- 

 ducino- stolons similar to those of Origanum vulgare. Stem generally 

 nnbranched, erect or subdecumbcnt, flexuou.s, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves 

 distant, the lamina 1 to 2 inches long; bracts similar, but narrower; 

 those of the terminal liead sometimes much smnller, but generally ncai-ly 

 as large as the others. Cymes shortly stalked, with numerous long 

 slender bracteoles. Flowers shortly jiedicellate. Calj-x nearly i inch 

 Ion"-, striate, thinly clothed with sjircading l)ristl_y hairs, green, the teeth 

 often purple. Corolla :| to 1 incli long, ])urpl!'<h crimson, the tulie 



