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3. Clinopodium Calamintha (L,.) Kuntze 



Capmint. (Fig. 3 1 ^-) 



Melissa Calamintha L- Sp. PI. 593. 1753- 

 Calamintha officinalis Moench, Meth. 409. 1794. 

 Clinopodium Calamintha Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 



PI. 515- 1891. 



Perennial by creeping rootstocks, pubes- 

 cent or hirsute; stem slender, branched, i- 

 2% high. Leaves broadly ovate, petioled, 

 obtuse at both ends or subacute at the apex, 

 dentate or crenate-dentate, i / -2 / long and 

 nearly as wide; inflorescence as in the pre- 

 ceding species, but commonly more leafy; 

 peduncles of the lower flower-clusters usually 

 longer than the petioles; calyx not gibbous, 

 villous in the throat, 2 // -3 // long, the teeth 

 of the lower lip twice as long as those of the 

 upper; corolla purplish, 6" -7" long. 



"Inclined to escape from cultivation in a few 

 places " (according to Gray). Native of Europe 

 and Asia. Mountain Mint. June-Aug. 



Calamint. Calamint Balm. 



4. Clinopodium Acinos (L,.) Kuntze. 

 Basil Thyme. Basil Balm? (Fig. 3149.) 



Thymus Acinos L- Sp. PI. 591. 1753. 

 Melissa Acinos Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 389. 1834. 

 Cal. Acinos Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 1848. 

 Clin. Acinos Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 513. 1891. 



Annual, pubescent; stems branched from the 

 base, very slender, &-W high. Leaves oblong 

 or ovate-oblong, petioled, acutish at both ends 

 or the lower obtuse, crenulate or entire, 4 // -8 // 

 long; flowers about 6 in the axils, the clusters 

 sessile; bracts shorter than the pedicels; calyx 

 gibbous on the lower side, rough-hairy, longer 

 than its pedicel, contracted at the throat, its 

 subulate teeth somewhat unequal in length; co- 

 rolla purplish, 1^-2 times as long as the calyx. 



Tn waste places, New York and New Jersey. Ad- 

 ventive from Europe. Called also Mother-of-thyme, 

 Polly Mountain. May-Aug. 



5. Clinopodium glabrum (Nutt.) Kuntze 



(Fig. 3150.) 



Hedeoma glabra Nutt. Gen. 1: 16. 1818. 



Cal. Nuttallii Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 1848. 



Calamintha glabella var. Nuttallii A. Gray, Man. 



Ed. 2, 307. 1856. 

 Clin, glabrum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 515. 1891. 



Perennial, glabrous, stoloniferous; stem very 

 slender, at length much branched, erect or as- 

 cending, 4 / -i2 / high. Leaves of the flowering 

 branches linear, entire, very short-petioled or 

 sessile, mostly obtuse at the apex, obscurely 

 veined, 4 // -9 // long, yi ,r -\ ff wide, the margins 

 slightly revolute; lower leaves and those of the 

 stolons shorter and broader, distinctly petioled; 

 flowers 1-4 in the axils; bracts minute; pedicels 

 filiform, mostly longer than the calyx; calyx 

 not gibbous, its throat pubescent in a ring 

 within, its lower teeth somewhat longer than 

 the upper; corolla purple, about \' f long. 



On rocks and banks, western New York and 

 southern Ontario to Illinois and Minnesota, south 

 to Missouri and Texas. May-Aug. 



Low Calamint or Bed's-foot. 



