214 LABIATE. 



ORIGANUM, Linn. 



517. O. vulgrare, L. 



0. sylvestre cunila Bubula Plinii, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 242 ; iii. 479. Curt. F. L. f. 5. 



Dry banks and roadsides ; xery rare. P. July — September. 



1. Harefield, frequent ; Blackst. Fasc. 70. (Banks, Pinner ; Hind, in 



Phyt. N. S. T. 201. Mr. Hind now considers this to have been an 

 error.) 

 Not since recorded. Extinct?. 



THYMUS, Linn. 



518. T. Serpyllum, L. Wild Thyme. 

 Serpyllum vulgar e, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 242 ; iii. 478. 



1. T. eu-Serioyllum, Syme. T. Serpyllum, L. (Bab.). Syme E. B. vii. t. 



1043. 

 Dry banks ; very rare. P. June — August. 



1. By the chalkpits, Harefield. 



II. By the high road near Staines, towards Hampton. 



2. T. Chamcedrys, Fries. Syme E.B.vii. t. 1044. 



Heaths and dry places ; rather rare. P. June — September. 

 I. Euislip and Harrow Weald Commons ; Eastcott ; Melv. 59. Harefield 



Common. Stanmore Heath. 

 II. Towing-path bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. Teddington. 

 III. Drilling Ground and roadsides near it, Hounslow. Meadow near 



Eichmond Bridge. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Varenne. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. A hairy form, Serp. mdgare'hirsutum,wa,s 

 noticed by Blackstone on Oliver's Mount in Uxbridge Moor; Fasc. 93. 

 A white-flowered plant is recorded as found plentifully betwixt 

 Tuddington and Hampton Court; Merrett 112, and R. Syn. iii. 230. 



CALAMINTHA, Mmich. 

 C. Nepeta, Clairv. Cyb. Br. ii. 244. Curt. F. L. f. 6. Likely to be found 

 in the N.W. of the county if searched for. Blackstone' s locality, by the 

 roadside from Harefield to Chalfont St. Peters (Fasc. 13), whence we 

 have seen specimens collected by Newb. in 1868, is just beyond the county 

 boundary in Herts. 



519. C, officinalis, Monch. C. menthifolia, Host. (Syme E. B. and L. 

 Cat.). Calamint. 



C. vulgaris, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 244. Syme E. B. vii. t. 1050. 



Dry hedgebanks and bushy places ; very rare. P. July — September. 



