36 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



peduncles often much elongated : the whole plant has more the aspect 

 of M. sylvatica. 



Commoti Calamint. 



French, Calament Ascciulanf. 



SPECIES v.— CALAMI NTH A SYLVATICA. Bromf. 



Plate MLII. 



Eekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCLXXVI. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2792. 



C. officinalis, Jm-d. Obs. PL nouv. et crit. Frag. 4. p. 4. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. II. p. 663. 

 C. officinalis vulgaris, Iteicli. fil. 1. c. p. 44. 



Stems flexuous, nearly simple, or with elongate ascending lateral 

 branches. Leaves ovate or rhombic-ovate, subobtuse, serrate or deeply 

 crenate-serrate. Flowers in a rather long lax unilateral panicle; 

 lower verticillasters about as long as the bracts, stalked; peduncle 

 shorter than the bract, equal to or longer than the pedicel of the cen- 

 tral floAver of the cyme. Calyx shorter than the pedicel, making an 

 angle with it ; 3 upper teeth triangular, abruptly recurved and spread- 

 ing, the 2 lower twice as long as the upper, slightly curved upwards, 

 triangular, insensibly acuminated into long subulate points, all ciliated 

 with long hairs ; throat closed with hairs, which are entirely concealed 

 within the tube. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx teeth ; lobes 

 of the lower lip contiguous, the middle lobe scarcely exceeding the 

 latei'al ones in length, broader than long. 



On a chalky bank, growing among Rubus cfesius and Nepeta Gle- 

 choma, in Avoods on the western side of a small valley between Apes- 

 down and Rowledge farms, rather less than 3 miles W.S.W. of 

 Newport, Isle of Wight. Discovered by the late Dr. Bromfield 

 in 1843. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



This plant is very near C. menthifolia: but the rootstock is more dis- 

 tinctly creeping ; the stems less branched, with more spreading l:)ranc]ies ; 

 the leaves larger, more o^'ate, more deeply and sharply toothed, 

 and with shorter petioles ; cymes more distant and more lax, more dis- 

 tinctly forked, with longer peduncles; calyx more narrowed towards 

 the base, the upper teeth more abruptly rellexed ; corolla much larger, 

 ^ to 1 inch long, purplish rose, variegated \v\i\\ white on the lower 

 lip, which has broader lobes ; nucules broader and smoother. 



In both this and tlie preceding species short stolons are emitted in 

 autumn, which take root at the base. 



Wood Calamint. 



French, Calament des Bois. German, GchmucUiche Calaminthe. 



