LABIAT^E. (mint FAMILY.) 645 



Var. jEIermoiii§, Boiss. Stems white-pannous below. Corolla 

 somewhat more exsertecl — Hermon ; Amanus. 



2. M. fauci4len§, Boiss. et Bal. % .3, yellowish or white, 

 densely silky -pannous ; branches simple, procumbent at base, erect 

 above. Leaves petioled, crenulate, obovate to oblong, cuneate at base, 

 the floral subsessile, longer than whorls. Bracts subulate, plumose, 

 somewhat shorter than calyx-tube; CdX^^ pannous, .005 long, teeth sub- 

 ulate, spiny-tipped ; corolla white, tube included — May to August — 

 Alpine regions of Amanus and Akher Dagh, and northward. 



1 1 Galyx-teeih half as long as tube, at length stellate-sp)reading , 



3. M. Alyssoii, L. © Frasiyiin. Stems woolly, thick, ascending, 

 low, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves grey, petioled, cuneate- 

 fan-shaped, crenate-lobed toward tip, the floral smaller, deflexed, longer 

 than whorls. Whorls 10-15-flowered, separate, loosely spiked; hracts 

 obsolete; calyx appressed-fleecy, teeth spiny, at length stellate-spread- 

 ing, throat at length closed by wool; corolla purplish, with minute 

 limb — Spring — Waste places, borders of et-Tih; Syria (Auch.). 



* * Calyx-teeth from 10 to 15. 



4. M. vulgare, L. 2f .4to.6; stems stout, white-woolly, as- 

 cending, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves crenate, soft-villousf^ 

 greyish above, whitish below, orbicular to ovate-orbicular, .01 to .03 long, 

 the lower petioled, often cordate. Whorls dense, globular, distant^ 

 rather shorter than cuneate-oblong, floral leaves; bracts subulate, 

 hooked at apex ; calyx-teeth 10, spreading, hooked at apex, the alternate 

 ones shorter, the longest one third as long as .004 long tube; corolla 

 white, with minute limb — April to September — Roadsides ; common. 



5. M. cuiieatum, Russ. If .4 to .6; stems ascending, simple 

 or branching, white-woolly below, tomentellous, greyish or greenish 

 above. Leaves petioled, cuneate-obovate to oblong -cuneate, .03 to .04 

 long, crenulate. Whorls less dense than in last, fewer-flowered, dis- 

 tant; flwral leaves oblong, deflexed; bracts few, short, linear; calyx- 

 teeth 10, or less, muticous, unequal, the alternate generally trifid, less 

 than a third as long as .003 to .004 long tube; corolla-limb white, 

 minute -r- March to August — Subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



Val". §pinuIo$uiii, Boiss. Calyx-teeth longer, spiny-tipped. 



20. STACHYS, L. Hedge-Nettle. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-10-nerved, with equal or oblique 

 mouth, rarely somewhat 2-lipped. Corolla-tube cylindrical, equal, in 

 eluded, rarely short-exserted, with a transverse or oblique, hairy ring, 

 or rarely naked within, the upper lip erect, entire or retuse or rarely 2- 

 cleft, generally somewhat arched, the lower spreading, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe the largest; stamens didynamous, exserted, the lower 

 longer, with 2, divergent anther-cells ; nutlets rounded, obtuse — Per- 

 ennial or annual herbs, or shrubs. 



* Perennials, 



t y^horls generally many-Jlowered ; bracts from one-third as 

 long as calyx to nearly as long. 



\ Corolla .01 to .015 long, yellowish, pink, or purple. 



