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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Field or Wild Basil; Basilweed 



Clinopodium vulgare Linnaeus 



Plate I86b 



Stems slender, erect from an ascending base which is perennial by 

 short, creeping stolons, hairy, usually branched or sometimes simple, 10 to 

 24 inches high. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, short petioled, entire, 

 undulate or crenate toothed on the margins, i to 2 inches long. Flowers 

 in dense, axillary and terminal capitate clusters about i inch in diameter, 

 with setaceous, hairy bracts. Calyx hairy, the two lower teeth somewhat 

 longer than the three upper ones. Corolla purple, pink or white, with a 

 straight tube a little longer than the calyx teeth, two-lipped; upper lip 

 erect; lower lip spreading and three-lobed. Stamens four, two of them 

 projecting out of the flower. 



In fields, open woods, thickets and roadsides, Newfoundland to Mani- 

 toba, south to North Carolina and Tennessee and in the Rocky mountains. 

 Also in Europe and Asia. Flowering from June to September. 



Hoary Mountain Mint; Calamint 



Koellia incana (Linnaeus) Kuntze 



Plate i82a 



Stems rather stout, i^ to 3^ feet high, finely pubescent or smooth 

 below. Leaves thin, opposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed at the 

 apex, sharply toothed, i\ to 3 inches long, the upper leaves smaller, white- 

 canescent beneath, the upper leaves usually white-canescent on both sides. 

 Flowers in loose terminal and axillary clusters, i to i^ inches broad, 

 canescent. Calyx slightly two-lipped, with very slender somewhat unequal 

 teeth; corolla white with purple dots, about one-half of an inch long, two- 

 lipped, the tube of the corolla equaling or longer than the calyx. 



Dry thickets, open woods and hillsides, Maine to Ontario, south to 

 Florida, Alabama and Missouri. Flowering from August to October. 



At least six other species of this genus occur in New York, most of 

 them are less conspicuous than the one here described and illustrated. 



