68 PLANTS OF BERMUDA, 



crenated ; petioles slender, length of blade ; whorls distant, two to 

 six flowered ; calyx ten -ribbed, teeth triangular acute, clothed with 

 glandular hairs ; corolla- tube little loiiger than calyx, upper lip 

 ahort, lower three -lobed, erect ; anthers included. Distribution, 

 Bahamas, &c. ; habitat, dry chalky banks and waysides. Flowers 

 white, quarter-inch long ; April to October. 



III. ROSMAKINUS. 



Caly» and corolla two-lipped ; stamem two, projecting ^ bearing a little 

 tooth near the base. 



1, JR. officinalis (Rosemary;. A very fragrant, perennial under- 

 shrub ; stems one to two feet high, much branched ; leaves sessile, 

 narrow, two inches long and quarter-inch wide, blunt, quite entire, 

 hoary on both surfaces with whitish, stellate down, interspersed 

 with oil glands, margin recurved ; flowers in axillarj^ and terminal 

 clusters ; upper lip of corolla two-parted, lower three-lobed, middle 

 lobe largest and concave. Distribution, Southern Europe : habitat, 

 rocky hills, common, St. David's Island. Flowers blue. 



c. Corolla two-lipped; stamens four. 



IV. CALAMINTHA. 



Calyx slightly two -hpped, five-toothed, thir teen-nerved, throat hairy ; 

 corolla-tube straight; stamens four, distant, ascending and' converging 

 under upper Up. 



1. G. Nepeta (Catnep;. A perennial, strong -smelling, downy 

 herb, one to two feet high ; stems straggling, at length erect, much 

 branched at base, slender, brittle ; leaves small, quarter to one inch 

 long, broadly ovate, obscurely serrated, on short petioles ; cymes 

 opposite, arising from axils in upper part of stem, six to twenty 

 flowered ; three upper calyx- teeth triangular, two lower awl -shaped, 

 throat closed with a dense circle of hairs ; upper lip of corolla emar- 

 ginate, lower three-lobed, spreading, middle lobe notched. Distri- 

 bution, Europe and United States ; habitat, waste ground, every- 

 where. Flowers pale lilac, throat spotted, one-third of an inch 

 long ; summer months. 



Whorls few-fiowered ; calyx nearly equal, bell-shaped, five to ten 

 ■nt reed, five-toothed ; corolla-tube incurved, upper Up erect or spreading, 

 lower Up three-lobed, side lobes reficxed ; stamens parallel, lower pair 

 longest : nuilffs rounded, blunt at top. 



1. a. (/;v.?;<ivv (Hedge nettle). Annual; stems slender, prostrate 

 or ascending, one-half to one foot long, sparingly hairy; leaves 

 one -half to one inch long, ovate, blunt, crenate, base cordate or 

 wedge-shaped, lower petioled, upper sessile ; whorls distant, con- 

 sisting of six (or less) sessile flowers ; calyx quarter-inch long, teeth 

 lanceolate, spinous-tipped. Distribution, Europe, Jamaica, and 



