346 MINT FAMILY. 



X X Upper lip of corolla more or less arched. 



S.i. PHLOMIS. Calyx tubular, with rigid narrow awl-sli.ipcd ti'tMh from the notch of aa 

 many very short and broad lobes. Corolla as in Stachys. Upper pair of stamens 

 (rather the longer) with an awl-shaped appendage at the base of the filaments. 



36. LEONrRUS. Caly.x top-sbaped, the awl-shaped teeth when old sjireading and spiny- 

 pointed. Corolla like Stachys, but middle lobe of lower lip obcord.ate. Stamens 

 parallel. Nutlets truncate and sharply 3-angled. Stems erect. Flowers in close 

 ■whorls in the axils of cut-lobed leaves. 



87. LAMIUM. Calyx tubular bell-shaped, witb 5 awl-shaped spreading teeth. Corolla 



much enlarged in the throat, the upper lip arching and with a narrow base, lateral 

 lobes of lower lip very short, the middle one rounded and spreading or turned down, 

 its base much narrowed. (Lessons, Fig. 250.) Stamens ascending under the upper 

 lip. Nutlets truncate at the top. 



= = Stamens dejlexed or contorted after flowering. 



88. STACHYS. Calyx mostly tubular bell-shaped, the teeth triangular or awl-shajicd, 



sometimes rigid or even pungent. Corolla not enlarged in the throat, the upper lip 

 entire or nearly so, the lower 3-lobed with the middle lobe nearly entire. Stamens 

 ascending under the upper lip, but the outer pair turned down after discharging 

 their pollen. Nutlets obtuse, but not truncate. Flowers crowded in whorls, most 

 of these commonly approximate in a terminal raceme or siiike. 



1. TRICHOSTEMA, BLUE CURLS. (Greek: hair-like stamens.) 

 Ours are branching, loosely-flowered, rather chminiy, low herbs, with 

 entire leaves, and small flowers as it were panicled, blue, or changing 

 to purple, in sunnner and autumn. 



T. dichdtomum, Linn. Common B. or Bastard Pennyroyal. Sandy 

 fields, Mass., S.; 0'-12' high, with mostly lance-oblong, short-petioled leaves. 

 T. lineare, Xutt. Leaves linear or lance-iinear, smoother. Conn., S. 



2. TEUCRIUM, GERMANDER. (Named for Teiicer, King of 



Troy.) 11 



T. Canadense, Linn. Li low grounds ; 1*^-3° high, downy, with ovate- 

 lanceolate serrate leaves, downy beneath, and pale purple or rarely white 

 flowers collected in a long spike, in late summer. 



3. ISANTHUS, FALSE PENNYROYAL. (Greek: equal fmcer, i.e. 

 parts of corolla regular.) ® 



I. caeriileus, Michx. Common in sandy or sterile soil from Me., S. 

 and W. ; bushy-branched, clarnniy-pubescent, 6'-12' high, with oblong 

 3-nerved entire leaves, and scattered, small blue flowers on axillary 

 peduncles. 



4. OCIMUM, SWEET BASIL. (Greek name, referring to the odor, 

 the lierbage sweet-scented.) 



0. Basilicum, Linn. Sweet Basil. Low sweet herb, of kitchen gar- 

 dens, from Asia, with ovate, somewhat toothed leaves, ciliate petioles and 

 calyx, and bluish-white racemed flowers, in summer. 



5. COLEUS. (Greek for .sheath, alluding to the monadelphous sta- 

 mens.) Cult, for the handsome colored foliage, from Java. 



C. B/i)mei, Benth. Leaves either blotched with crimson or bronze-red, 

 or almost wlioUy colored, rhomb-ovate and acuminate-pointed and atenu- 

 ated into a petiole below, with deltoid and sharp teeth ; the inconspicuous 

 flowers blue or blui.sh and racemed. 



