PLANTS OF BEIlMtl)A. 5t 



ish, blunt, one inch in diameter, much wrinkled, .sharply toothed, 

 woolly beneath ; spikes cylindrical, the whorls somewhat distant. 

 Distribution, Europe ; habitat, marshes and waste places, very com- 

 mon around Hamilton. Flowers minute, pale pink ; summer 

 months. 



2. 3£. piperita (Peppermint). Stems smooth, slender, erect or 

 ascending, one to two feet high ; leaves one to two inches long, 

 petioled, ovate (upper lanceolate), sharply serrate, acute, rounded at 

 the entire base, deeply veined, dark green ; spikes terminal, slender, 

 cylindrical, somewhat interrupted below ; calyx reddish, teeth acute, 

 hairy, nearly as long as corolla-tube. Distribution, Europe, intro- 

 duced America ; habitat, marshes. Flowers small, pink ; summer 

 months. 



3. M. viridis (Spearmint). Stems numerous, sub-erect, branch- 

 ing, one to two feet high, leaves nearly sessile, smooth, oblong 

 lanceolate, one to two inches long, sharply serrated ; spikes slender, 

 cylindrical, whorls somewhat distant ; bracts and teeth of calyx 

 bristle- shaped. Distribution, England and United States ; habitat, 

 marshes and ditches, common. Flowers one-sixth of an inch, pale 

 purple ; summer months. 



4. M: aqtiatica, sub-species hirsiUa, var. citrata (Bergamot mint). 

 Stems smooth and shining, purple ; leaves petioled, ovate, sharply 

 serrate, pointed, abruptly rounded at base, smooth on both surfaces, 

 deeply veined ; spikes terminal, sub -globose, three-quarters of an 

 inch in diameter ; calyx purple, smooth, the teeth slender, half the 

 length of tube ; corolla smooth. Distribution, England ; habitat, 

 marshes, common. Flowers purplish ; summer months . 



B. Corolla two-lipped, stamens two. 



II. SALVIA. 



Calyx and corolla tioo-lipped^ st'imens two, the filaments short a)ul 

 attached to sides of corolla, each jointed to middle of a much elongated 

 connective^ which hears at one end a fertile anther, and at the opposite 

 flower) end a barren one or none at all. 



1. S. coccinea. A perennial, herbaceous plant ; stem erect, six to 

 18 inches, hoary, pubescent ; leaves one to two inches long, ovate, 

 cordate, acute, crenate, hoaiy beneath, petiole half the length of 

 blade ; whorls distant, six to ten flowered ; calyx ten-ribbed, the 

 upper lip purple, entire, lower split, teeth triangular acute ; corolla- 

 tube widening upwards, upper lip entire, compressed, lower lip 

 pendant, three-lobed, middle lobe larger, emarginate. Distribution, 

 West Indies and Florida ; habitat, dry hills and Avayside banks, 

 common. Flowers scarlet, very showy, three-quarters of an inch 

 long ; April to October. 



2. S. serotina. A perennial plant, clothed with a whitish pubes- 

 cence ; stems six to twelve inches high, shrubby at base, branches 

 slender, erect ; leaves pale green above, velvety beneatli, one-half 

 to three-quarters of an inch long, triangular ovate, blunt, slightly 



