39. LABIATE. 



1-23 



tomentose, with more or less 

 recurved edges, often clustered 

 at the nodes; flowers dark- 

 purple in dense, oblong, quad- 

 rangular spikes, surmounted by 

 several large, sterile, violet 

 bracts ; bracts Cfloral leaves) of 

 the spike broadly oboval, some- 

 what 3-lobed, membranous, 

 veined, 3-flowered ; calyx vil- 

 lous. 13-nerved, with the upper 

 tooth clawed and broader than 

 the other 4; corolla 2-lipped, 

 with 5 almost ■ equal spread- 

 ing lobes. 



Pasture : Burnside. Mount 

 Lofty Range. — July-Nov. — Medi- 

 terranean region. 



3. MARRTJBItTM L. 



1. Marrubium vulgare, 



L. Il(>reho\tnd. White-tonientosc, 

 branching perennial ; leaves 

 stalked, circular, irregularly 



crcuate 



Lavandula Stoechas. 



wrinkled; fiuwir,-, white, 

 in dense, compact, distant 

 axillary whorls; calyx stellate- 

 liairy, with 10 awlshaped, re- 

 curved teeth and a ring of hairs 

 inside at their base ; corolla 2- 

 lipped, the upper lip erect, the 

 lower spreading; 

 ovoid, triangular. 



Koadsides and 

 over the State. - 

 Europe; western Asia. 



4. Rosmarinus, 



(Latin ros iDnrimis. 



grows near the coast in the 



south of Europe.) 

 1. Rosma.rinus officin- 

 a.lis, L. IlofiPinary. Evergreen, 

 l)ranchiiig. aromatic shrub; 

 loaves numerous, linear, green 

 and wrinkled above, with re- 

 curved edges. white-torn entose 

 I)el()w ; flowers white, splashed 

 with violet, in den.se axillary and terminal racemes, shorter 

 than the leaves; calyx densely white-tomentose, campanu- 

 late, 2-lipped, uppei- lip ovaf with 3 minute teeth, lower 



camels ob- 



pasture all 

 -Sept. -J an. — 



L. 



sea-dew 



Marrubium vulgare. 



