660 LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



* * Calyx funnel-shaped, with membranous-ex2xmded^ rotate limb. 



Fig. 310. 



2. E. macrophylla, 



Montb. et Auch. 21 .3 to .5, 

 more or less fleecy ; stem thick, 

 simple or opposite-branched 

 from base. Root-leaves petipl- 

 ed, ovate to round, lamina . 1 to 

 .15 long, coarse-crenate, green 

 or fleecy at upper surface, fleecy 

 at lower, the floral sessile, 

 cuneate at baae, rounded above, 

 serrate, as long as calyces or 

 longer. Whorls 6-flowered, 

 forming more or less dense 

 spikes .3 to .35 long; bracts 

 plumose, subulate-filiform, as 

 long as calyx-tube ; calyx -tube 

 fleecy, limb basin-shaped, reticu- 

 late, lobes half-round, broader 

 than long, short-mucronate ; 

 corolla yellow, scarcely longer 

 than calyx — May and June — Fields and waste places; KurdDagh; 

 I^ebk to Qaryetein ; Palmyrene Desert, and northward, and eastward. 



Whorl, with one of the opposite leaves of 

 Eremostachys macrophylla. 



29. PRASIUM, L. Prasium. 



Calyx campanulate, 10-nerved, irregularly 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 short-trifid, the lower deeply 2-parted. Corolla- tube included, with a 

 scaly-hairy ring within, the lips of equal length, the ui>per ovate, 

 entire, the lower trifid, the middle lobe larger, entire. Stamens ascend- 

 ino" under the hood, the anther-cells divergent. Style equally bifid. 

 Nutlets somewhat baccate — Shrubs. 



P. majus, L. 5 -^ ^^ ^-^^ glabrous or sparingly hispidulous 

 above. Leaves ovate, .015 to .03 long, truncate or cordate at base, 

 petioled, crenate or serrate, the floral narrower, less dentate. Whorls 

 2-flowered, more or less distant; calyx .012 long in flower, short- 

 pedicelled, green, glabrous, with ovate, aristate teeth, the lower two 

 longer than tube, the upper three irregularly connate ; corolla white — 

 Spring — Hedges and rocks ; common on coast and mountains to 

 1000 m., east and west of Jordan, and northward. 



$0. TEUCRirM, L. Germander. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate or campanulate, with 5, equal or un- 

 equal teeth. Corolla deciduous, with short tube, not hairy ringed 

 within, the upper lip short-cleft, the lower 5-lobed, the lowest lobe 

 large, rounded or oblong, generally concave, the others small, oblong, 

 (in ours) declined. Stamens 4, ascending, generally long-exserted, 

 didynamous, with confluent anther-cells. Style nearly equally bifid. 

 Nutlets reticulate. or wrinkled — Shrubs or herbs. 



* Perennials. Peduncles opposite, axillary, 1-Z-Jloit^ered, racemed or pan- 

 icled. Calyx straight, equal-toothed. 



t Leaves entire. 



