306 LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



hie, varying to lanceolate, rather rigid, acute,' rounded or sligfdly hean shaped at 

 ihe base, mostly sessile and minutely sharp-toothed, prominently veined, green 

 when old ; tlie floral ones, bracts, and triangular-ovate calyx-teeth, hoary with 

 a fine dose down. Dry hills, Maine to Ohio, Kentucky, and southward. Aug. 

 Flowers in very dense clusters ; the outer bracts ovate-lanceolate and pointed, 

 the others pointless. 



* * * * Calyx equally 5-toothed: flowers collected in dense and globular, often fasci- 

 cled, small and numerous heads, which are crowded in terminal corymbs: bract* 

 rigid, closely oppressed, shorter t/tan the flowers : lips of the corolla very short .- 

 leaves narrow, sessile, entire, rigid, crowded and clustered in the axils. 



7. P. laiiceoliitllin, Pursh. Smoothish or minutely pubescent (2 high); 

 leaves lanceolate or lance-linear, obtuse at the base ; heads downy ; calyx-teeth sltoit 

 and triangular. Dry thickets ; common. July - Sept. 



8. P. lillifolilim, Pursh. Smooth or nearly so (l-2 high); leaves 

 narrower and heads less downy than in the last ; the narrower bracts and lance- 

 ani-shaped calyx-teeth pungently pointed. Thickets, S. New England to Illinois, 

 and southward. July - Sept. 



***** Calyx equally 5-toothed: flowers collected in few and solitary large and 

 globular heads (terminal, and in the upper axils of the membranaceous petiole^ 

 leaves) ; the bracts loose, ciliate-beardcd. 



9. P. moiltanmil, Michx. Stem (1 -3 high) and ovate- or oblong 

 lanceolate serrate leaves glabrous; bracts very acute or awl-pointed, the outer- 

 most ovate and leaf-like, the inner linear ; teeth of the tubular calyx short and 

 acute. Alleghanies, from S. Virginia southward. July. Flavor warm and 

 pleasant. Foliage and heads like a Monarda. 



9. ORIGANUM, L. WILD MARJORAM. 



Calyx ovate-bell-shaped, hairy in the throat, striate, 5-toothed. Tube of the 

 corolla about the length of the calyx, 2-lippcd; the upper lip rather erect ana 

 slightly notched ; the lower longer, of 3 nearly equal spreading lobes. Stations 

 4, cxseitcd, diverging. Perennials, with nearly entire leaves, and pur; lish 

 flowers crowded in cylindrical or oblong spikes, which arc imbricated with col- 

 crcJ bracts. (An ancient Greek name, said to be from opoj, a mountain, and 

 yuror, delight.) 



1. O. VULOA.RE, L. Upright, hairy, corymbose at .the summit ; leaves peti- 

 oleil, round-ovate ; bracts ovate, obtuse, purplish Dry banks, sparingly intro- 

 duced eastward. June -Oct. (Nat. from Eu.) 



10. THinUUS, L. THYME. 



Calyx ovate, 2-lipped, 13-nerved, hairy in the throat; the upper lip 3-toothed, 

 spreading ; the lower 2-cleft, with the awl-shaped divisions ciliate. Corolla 

 short, slightly 2-lipped ; the upper lip straight and flattish, notched at the apex ; 

 the lower 3-cleft. Stamens 4, straight and distant, usually exscrtcd. Low pe- 

 rennials, with small and entire strongly-veined leaves, and purplish or whitish 



