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erect upon the pedicel, and shorter than it; 3 u{)per teeth triangular, 

 slightly recurved, the 2 lower twice as long as the upper, slightly 

 curved upwards, triangular, abruptly acuminated into long subulate 

 points, all finely ciliated; throat closed with dense hairs, which project 

 beyond the tube. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx teeth; the 

 middle lobe of the lower lip broad and truncate. 



On dry banks and roadsides, especially on chalky soil. Rather rare, 

 and apparently confined to the southern half of England; extending 

 north to Norfolk, Cambridge, Gloucester, and South Wales. Reported 

 from the south-west of Ireland, probably from near Mucruss, Killarney ; 

 but Professor Babington considers his specimen collected thei'e to 

 belong to C. nepetoides, Jordan. 



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



Rootstock shortly creeping, much branched, so that the stems appear 

 in annular tufts. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, virgate, with short ascending 

 lateral branches. Leaves shortly stalked ; lamina ^ to 1 inch long. 

 Bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, the uppermost ones subsessile 

 and narrowed towards the base. Calyx 5; inch long, puberulent on tlie 

 veins, often tinged with purple. Corolla white, variegated with lilac 

 dots on the lower lip, about \ inch long, with the tube straight. 

 Nucules ovoid, broA^ai. Plant greyish green, the stem clothed with 

 short soft woolly pubescence, which is recui'ved on the branches and 

 pedicels, but spreading on the main stems; leaves more or less 

 pubescent on both sides, firm. 



Lesser Calamint. 

 French, Calament Nepeta. 



SPECIES IV.— CALAMINTHA MENTHIFOLIA. Host. 



Plates ML. MLI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsioc. No. 280. 



C. officinalis, Monch ; Benth. in B.C. Prod. Vol. XII. p. 228. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 



V. p. 257. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 337. 

 C. ascendens, Jord. Obs. sur PI. nouv. et crit. Frag. iv. p. 8. 

 Thymus Calamintha, Sin. Engl. Bot. No. 1676. 



Stem flexuous, with elongate incurved-ascending lateral branches. 

 Leaves deltoid-ovate or rhombic-ovate, subobtuse, faintly crenate- 

 serrate. Flowers in a rather long and dense unilateral panicle ; lower 

 verticillasters shorter than the bracts, stalked ; peduncle much shorter 

 than the bract, shorter than the pedicel of the central flower of the 

 cyme, except in tlie lower ones, where it occasionally equals or even 

 exceeds it. Calyx making an angle with the pedicel, and equalling 



