LABIATE, (mint FAMILY.) 



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* * Whorls remote. Throat of calyx closed hj a hairy ring ; Ihnh 

 nearly ^-lipped. 



3. in. Pulcgrtuni, L. 11 Pennyroyal, .2 to .5, villous, hairy, 

 or glabresccnt ; stems prostrate, rooting at base. Leaves ovate or ob- 

 long, .005 to .03 long, short-petioled, obscurely denticulate. Whorls 

 globular, .01 in diameter, constituting a long, interrupted, leafy 

 spike; corolla pink — June to September— Wet ])laces; middle zone 

 of Lebanon; coast; Coelesyria; Cassius; Amanus. 



3. L.YCOPIJS, TouRN. Water-Hoiiehound. 



Calyx campanulate, equal, 4-5-toothed, ^\•itll naked throat. Co- 

 rolla campanulate, nearly equal, 4-clcft, scarcely longer than calyx. 

 Stamens straight, divergent, the fertile two exserted, each with 2 

 parallel anther-cells, the sterile two included, filiform, or 0. Nutlets 



with callous margins, 3-angled, truncate at apex, tapering at base. 



Perennial herbs, with globular, axillary whorls of white flowers. 



L.. Europseus, L. % Gipsy wort. .6 to 1, glabrous or puberu- 

 leut; stem stiff, 4-augled and grooved, simple or opposite-branched^ 

 Leaves dhlong-rhonihic, .04 to .06 long, sinuate-dentate, tapering to u 



short petiole. Sterile filaments minute or — June to Septeniber 



Coast; lower Lebanon; Ghor-cs-Safieh ; Coelesyria and Damascus to 

 Hamath and northward. 



Fig. 281. 



Leaf and whorl of floweri from middle of •tem of Lycopus Europanis 



4. ORIGANUIVI, L. Wild Marjoram. Origanum. 



Calyx campanulate or turbinate, bilabiate, split down in front, or 

 nearly equally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube included or exserted, the up- 

 per limb straight, retuse or bifid. Stamens 4 ; anthers with 2, distinct, 

 divergent cells. Nutlets ovate or oblong — Shrubs or perennial herbs, 

 with flowers subtended by more or less imbricated bracts, collected in 

 more or less dense spikes or heads. 



* Bracts .008 to .014 long, .000 to .008 Iroad, pinl or pwyle, 

 longer than MlaUate calyx. 

 1. O. Amaiium, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. VIL p. 12.) 2^: 

 .15 to .2, crisp-papillosc-hairy below, stems ascending, reddish, simple 

 or sparingly branched above, leafy. Leaves sessile, prominently nerv- 

 ed, cordate-ovate, .01 to .015 long, sliort-acuminate, punctate, margin 

 papillose-scabrous. Spikes .015 to .02 long, few-flowered, ovate, ses- 

 sile; bracts more or less reddish-purple, ovate-oblong, acuminate, about 

 twice as long as calyx; calyx glabrous, ]nmctatc, upper lip ac2/r^7y 



