328 58. LABIATE. 



2. T. Chamce'drys (Fr.) ; stems alike diffuse ascending, 1. all 

 broadly oblong with flat fringed stalks, fl. whorled or capitate, 

 upper cal.-lip with 3 triangular teeth, lower of 2 subulate 

 teeth, upper cor. -lip semicircular. E. B. S. 2S)92. Forming a 

 tuft of flowering and barren shoots ; the st. of preceding year 

 ending in a fl.-shoot. L. less narrowed into the stalks than in 

 Sp. 1, usually only the stalk is fringed, less prominently veined 

 beneath, broad. Nutlets roundish, subcompressed, with a basal 

 apiculus. Cor. purple ; upper lip slightly and obscurely notched. 

 In the large forms the st. is stronger : it is not so in Sp. 1. 

 Heaths. P. VI. VIII. E. S. I. 



6. CLLNOPODIUM L. (Calamintlia (Moench)ed. viii.) 

 Calamint. 



* Fl. in whorls of 2 forked cymes. 



1. C. Nep'eta (0. Kuntze) ; 1. ovate serrate pale beneath 

 shortly stalked, cal. rather bell-shaped obscurely 2-lipped its 

 teeth shortly dilate all nearly of the same shape the upper ones 

 slightly shorter and broader, cyme many- flowered its common 

 stalk about as long as the primary partial stalk. Tliymus L. 

 E. B. 1414. St. usually many from the crown of the root, 12 

 18 in. high; branches short, erect. Fl. purple. Hairs in the 

 throat of the cal. protruded. Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VIII. 

 Lesser Calamint. E. 



2. C. Calamin'tha (0. Kuntze) ; 1. broadly ovate slightly 

 serrate green on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubular dis- 

 tinctly 2-lipped its teeth with long cilia those of the upper lip 

 triangular and ascending, of the lower twice as long and subulate, 

 lower lip of the cor. with distant segments the middle one 

 longest, cyme scarcely forked few-flowered, fl. at an angle with 

 the pedicel. Calamintha officinalis (Moench) ed. viii. E. B. 

 1676. St. usually solitary, or few from the root, 1 2 ft. high : 

 branches long, ascending. Fl. purplish. Hairs in the throat 

 of the cal. included. Larger in all its parts than the preceding. 

 a. Cal. ascendens (Jord.) ; ped. of cyme J as long as the 

 primary partial stalk. /3. Cal. off. var. Briygsii (Syme) ; ped. 

 of lower cymes as long as or longer than the primary partial 

 stalk. Sy. E. B. 1051. Dry banks, rare. ft. Devon. P. VII. 

 IX. Common Calamint. E. I. 



3. C. grandiflor'um (O. Kuntze) ; 1. broadly ovate sharply 

 sen-ate, cal. tubular distinctly 2-lipped, teeth with long cilia 

 those of the upper lip patent or reflexed, lower lip of the cor. 

 with overlapping segments all nearly equally long, cyme many- 



