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calyx. E. B. 154. -Varies with the 1. incise-dentate. Re- 

 markable for its enlarged very broad sessile upper leaves. St. 

 1 '2 ft. high. Cor. purple, small; upper lip concave, laterally 

 compressed, straight except at the tip. Upper cal.-lip broad ; 

 teeth small, converging. Dry gravelly banks. P. V. VI. 

 English Clary. E. S. L. 



2. ?S. clandestina (L.) ; 1. oblong cordate below sinuate-den- 

 tate or incise-dentate stalked, upper I. oblong acute sessile 

 scarcely cordate or clasping, bracts cordate acuminate, tube of 

 the cor. exceeding the calyx. St. a foot high. Cor. purple, 

 Small. Upper cal.-lip very broad, teeth very small. Probably 

 distinct from the preceding, but very difficult to characterise. 

 Syme's plant (Sy. E. B. 1057) seems different. Dry gravelly 

 banks, rare. Lizard, Cornwall. Channel Isles. P. VII. E. 



3. S.praten'sis (L.) ; 1. oblong-ovate cordate below, crenate- 

 dentate stalked, upper 1. small, sessile lanceolate acute, bracts 

 cordate acuminate, cor. thrice as long as the calyx. E. B. 153. 

 St. 1 2 ft. high. Known by its large flowers. -Cobham, 

 Kent. Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire. P. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Satureinea. 



4. OKIG'AIOJM Linn. Marjoram, 



1. O. vulgar -e (L.) ; 1. stalked broadly ovate, bracts ovate ex- 

 ceeding the cal., heads of ti. ovoid or oblong panicled crowded. 

 E. B. 1143. St. a foot high, corymbose. Bracts usually 

 purple. L. often slightly toothed. Fl. purple. Spikes some- 

 times prismatic and oblong. 0. megastachyum Link, Sy. E. B. 

 1046. Dry uncultivated places. P. VIII. *E. S. I. 



5. THY'MUS Linn. Thyme. 



1. T. Serpyl'lum (L.) ; st. prostrate creeping ', 1. all oblong or 

 lanceolate narrowed into the flat fringed stalks, flowering shoots 

 ascending, fl. capitate, upper cal.-lip with 3 short triangular 

 teeth, lower of % subulate teeth, upper cor -lip oblong. E. B. 

 1514. Forming a cushion with a fringe of prostrate barren 

 shoots which in the next year produce erect fl.-shoots from 

 their lower joinings and are prolonged at the end. L. narrowed 

 below, their lower half and the stalk often fringed, rather con- 

 spicuously veined beneath, often narrow. Nutlets globose, 

 mealy. Cor. purple ; upper lip conspicuously notched. 

 [A northern form with broader Land capitate inflor. has been referred to 

 var. prostrata (Hornem).] Dry heaths. P. VI. VIII. E. S. I. 



