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whitened; the many-flowered wKoils dense, crowded with bracts, and usually 

 forming terminal heads or close cymes. Corolla whitish or purplish, the lipa 

 mostly dotted with purple. Varies, like the Mints, with the stamens cxserted 

 or included in different flowers. (Name composed of TTVKVOS, dense, and cMe/ioc, 

 a blossom ; from the inflorescence.) 



* Calyx scarcely at all 2-lipped, the teeth and bracts awl-shaped and awn-pointed' 

 rigid, naked, as long as the corolla : flowers in rather dense mostly terminal heads : 

 kai^es rigid, slightly petioled. 



1. P. atistatuni, Michx. Minutely hoary-puberulent (l-2 high); 

 leaves ovate-oblong and oblong-lanceolate, acute, sparingly denticulate-serrate 

 (1 '- 2' long), roundish at the base. Fine ban-ens, from New Jersey southward. 



Var. liyssopifoliuni. Leaves narrowly oblong or broadly linear, nearly 

 tatire and obtuse. (P. hyssopifolium, Benth.) Virginia and southward. 



* * Calyx 2-lipped from the greater union more or less of the 3 upper teeth, which f 

 with the bracts, are subulate and bearded with some spreading hairs : flowers in 

 dense and compound flattened cymes, which become considerably expanded in fruit : 

 leaves membranaceous, petioled. 



2. P. i lie fin lint, Michx. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, remotely toothed, 

 downy above and mostly hoary with whitish wool underneath, the uppermost whitened 

 both sides ; cymes open ; bracts linear-awl-shaped and, with the calyx-teeth, more 

 or less awn-pointed. Rocky woods and hills, New England to Michigan, and 

 southward. Aug. Plant 2 - 4 high, the taste intermediate between that of 

 Pennyroyal and Spearmint, as in most of the following species. Very variable. 



3. P. Clinopodioid.es, Torr. & Gr. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, scarcely 

 toothed, short-petioled, not whitened ; the upper surface often smooth, the lower 

 as well as the stem downy; cymes contracted; bracts and calyx-teeth short subu- 

 late, the latter nearly one half shorter than the tube. Dry copses Penn. & New 

 York. Aug., Sept. Perhaps an extreme state of No. 2. 



# * * Calyx usually almost equally 5-toothed: flotvers crowded in loose heads or dense 

 clv-sters at the end of the brandies and in the uppermost axils ; the bracts shorter 

 than the 2-lipped corollas : leaves almost sessile. 



4. P. Torreyi, Benth. Somewhat pubescent; stem strict and nearly 

 simple (2 -3 high) ; leaves thin, linear-lanceolate, tapering to both ends (mostly 

 2' long and 2" -3" wide), nearly entire; the awl-shaped calyx-teeth and bracts 

 canescent. Dry soil, S. New York and New Jersey. Aug. Intermediate in 

 aspect between No. 3 and No. 7. 



5. P pilosum, Nutt. More or less downy with long and soft whitish hairs, 

 much branched above ; leaves lanceolate, acute rJ both ends, or the lower ovate- 

 fanceolate, nearly entire, tlie floral not whitened; calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, and with the bracts hoary-haired. Dry hills and plains, W. Penn., 

 Ohio, to Illinois, and southward in the Allcghanies. July- Sept. A smoother 

 form of this, approaching the next, is, if I mistake not, Brachystemum verticil- 

 latum, Michx. (Mountains of Penn. and southward.) 



6. P. Illllticiim, Pers. Minutely hoary throughout, or almost smooth, 

 corymbosely m ich branched (l-2^ high) ; leaves ovate or broadly ovate-lanceo 



