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H- ■*- Bracts and calyx teeth not awned. 



P. lanceolatum, I'lirsh. Smoothish, not hoary, very leafy, bushy 

 branched ; leaves small antl clustered, narrow-lanceolate or lance-linear, 

 rigid, sessile, obtuse at base ; tlowers small, in numerous globular close 

 heads which are crowded in terminal corymbs. Calyx teeth and bracts 

 short, triangular; lii)s of the corolla very short. Mass., W. and S. 



P. Iinif6lium, I'ursh. Like the last, less common N. ; smoother, with 

 lance-linear leaves, and narrower sharp-pointed bracts and calyx teeth. 



P. miiticum, I'ers. Minutely soft-downy but hardly whitened, rather 

 low, liusliy-liraueheil ; leaves mostly lance-ovate and sessile, with rounded 

 or sli>;litly heart-shaped base, minutely sharp-toothed, rather rigid; 

 flowers in heads or dense clusters ; calyx teeth and inner bracts rather 

 blunt. JSIe., W. and S. 



Var. pil6sum, Gray. Downy, with rather long, soft hairs ; the broadish 

 lanceolate leaves acute at both ends and nearly entire ; whorled heads at 

 the end of the branches ; the calyx teeth and bracts ovate-lanceolate and 

 acute. Ohio, W. 



* * Calyx 2-Uppcd (.'3 tipper teeth united). 



P. incanum, Michx. Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, remotely 

 toothed, finely soft-downy above and white-hoary beneath, those next 

 the open flat cymes whitened both sides ; bracts and calyx teeth some- 

 what awn-poiuted. N. Kng., W. and S. 



17. ORIGANUM, MARJORAM. (Old Greek name, .said to mean 

 delight of mountains.) Natives of the Old World; sweet herbs; 

 flowers summer. 2L 



0. vulgare, Linn. Wjld Marjoram. Old gardens, and wild on some 

 roadsides ; l°-'2'~^ high, with small ovate, nearly entire leaves, on short 

 petioles, and purplish flowers in corymbed purple-bracted clusters or 

 short si)ikes ; calyx equally 5-toothed. 



0. Majordna, Liini. Swekt Marjoram. Cult, in kitchen gardens as 

 an annual ; leaves small and flnely soft-downy ; the bracts not colored ; 

 flowers whitish or purplish, with calyx hardly toothed but cleft nearly 

 down on the lower side. 



18. THYMUS, THYME. (Ancient Greek and Latin name.) Low 

 or creeping, slightly woody-stemmed, sweet-aromatic plants of the 

 Old \Vorld ; flowers small, in summer. Leaves in the common species 

 entire, small, from \' to near .]' long, ovate, obovate or oblong, with 



tapering base. 21 



T. Serpyllum, Linn. Crkei-ino 'riivjii:. Cult, as a sweet herb, rarely 

 a little spontaneous ; creeping, forming broail flat perennial turfs ; leaves 

 green (a variegated form used for edgings) ; whorls of purplish or flesh- 

 coloi-ed flowers crowded or somewhat spiked at the ends of the flowering 

 branches. 



T. vulgaris, Linn. Common Thyme. Sometimes cult.; more upright 

 and busliy than tlie other, pale and rather hoary ; flowers iu shorter 

 clusters. 



19. CALAMINTHA, CALAMINT. (Greek for beautiful Mint.) 

 Flowers summer. % (Lessons, Fig. 301.) 



* Floicers loose, in the axils, or above runniiKj into racemes or panicles. 



C. glabella, Benth. A delicate native but nncommon species, from 

 S. Ind., S.; smooth, with weak stems 6'-20' long, also with creeping run- 



