LABIATE TETBE 



22S 



16. Melittis (Wild Balm). Calyx bell-shaped, much wider than 

 the tube of the corolla, variously lobed ; upper lip of the corolla 

 nearly flat, entire, lower with 3 rounded, nearly equal lobes. (Name 

 from the Greek, melitta, a bee, from the quantity of honey contained 

 in the tube.) 



17. Prunella (Self-heal). Calyx flattened, and closed whei 

 in fruit ; filaments 2-forked. (Name from a German word for thf 

 quinsy, for which complaint it was considered a specific.) 



18. Scutellaria (Skull-cap). Upper lip of the calyx bulged 

 outward about the middle, and finally closing down like a lid over 

 the fruit ; tube of the corolla much larger than the calyx. (Name 

 from the Latin, scutella, a little cup, which the calyx somewhat 

 resembles.) 



1. Lycupus (Gipsy-wort) 



1. L. Europaus (Common Gipsy-wort). An aquatic plant, with 

 erect, scarcely branched sterns, 2 feet high, deeply cut lanceolate 

 leaves, and small, pale flesh-coloured flowers, growing in crowded 

 whorls in the axils of the upper leaves. The only British species. 

 On the banks of rivers and ditches ; frequent. Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



L. Ei kop.kus 

 {Common Gipsy-wort) 



Salvia Verbenaca 

 (Wild Sage) 



2. Salvia (Sage) 



1. S. verbenaca (Clary, or Wild Sage). An aromatic, herbaceous 

 plant, 1-2 feet high, with oblong, blunt leaves, heart-shaped at the 



