100 COEOLLIFLOE2B. 



NEPETA. CAT-MINT, GROUND-IVY. 



1. N. Cataria (Cat-mint.) In fields, hedges, and waste 

 places. Stems from 2 to 3 feet high, erect, downy ; leaves 

 stalked, heart-shaped, serrate, downy beneath ; floral leaves bract- 

 like. Flowers in spiked, shortly stalked whorls, white, with a pinkish 

 tinge, and spotted with rose-colour. Babbicombe road. Cock- 

 ington. Shiphay lanes, etc. (E. B. t. 137.) P. vn.-ix. 



2. W. Glechoma (ground Ivy.) In thickets, hedges, and 

 waste grounds. Stem extensively creeping ; leaves stalked, kid- 

 ney-shaped, crenated, downy. Whorls on one side of the stem, 

 axillary, 3- to 4-flowered ; flowers large and blue. Very abun- 

 dant. Glechoma hederacea, Linn. (E. B. t. 853.) P. in.-v. 



MARRUBIUM. WHITE HOREHOUND. 



M. vulgare (common white fforehound.) By roadsides, bor- 

 ders of fields, and waste places. Stem thick and cottony, branched ; 

 leaves stalked, roundish, irregularly serrate, wrinkled and hoary. 

 Plant from 12 to 18 inches high. Flowers in crowded whorls in 

 the axils of the upper leaves, small, of a dirty- white colour ; up- 

 per lip of the corolla 2-cleft ; calyx with from 5 to 10 small 

 hooked teeth. Fields on the Warberry Hill. Watcombe. Waste 

 spots at Marychurch. (E. B. t. 410.) P. VHI. ix. 



CALAMINTHA. CALAMINTH, BASIL-THYME, 

 WILD BASIL. 



1. C. Acinos (common Basil-Thyme) In cultivated fields 

 and waste places. Plant 6 or 8 inches high, branched, slightly 

 downy. Leaves on short stalks, small, oblong, slightly toothed, 

 but at times almost entire. Flowers in axillary whorls, on short 

 upright stalks ; corolla pale-purple or white. Frequent in tillage 

 fields and dry pastures. Daddy hole Plain, on the slope near 

 the wall of Rock End grounds. Meadfoot cliffs. Fields near 

 Hope's Nose. Thymus^ Linn. (E. B. t. 411.) A. vn. vm. 



2. C. oiHcinalis (common Calaminth.) In woods, borders of 

 fields, and by roadsides. Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, strong and 

 erect, with straggling branches, hairy. Leaves stalked, broadly 

 ovate, toothed. Flowers in loose lateral cymes, lilac ; lower lip 

 of the corolla dotted. Roadside near Chudleigh, Ilsington, Fl. D. 

 Thymus Calamintha. (E. B. t. 1676.) P. YII.-IX. 



