360 LABI AT JE. Calamintha. 



•i~- +- Indigenous on wet limestone river-banks, glabrous or nearly so, except a villous ring in the 

 throat of the calyx: common peduncles in the axils hardly any: pedicels 1 to 5 : conspicuous 

 bracts at tlieir base subulate-acuminate : petioles short or none. 

 C. glabella, Benth. Stems lax or decumbent, a foot or two long : leaves oblong or 

 broadly lanceolate with tapering base ; the larger ones serrate : axils 3-5-flowered : calyx- 

 teeth of both lips attenuate-subulate : corolla nearly half inch long, barely twice the length 

 of the calyx. — DC. Prodr. xii. 230. Cunila glabella, Michx. Fl. i. 13. Zizophora glabella, 

 Roem. & Sch. Syst. i. 209. --Banks of the Tennessee near Nashville (Michaux) and of the 

 Kentucky River near Frankfort, Short & Peter. 

 C. Nuttallii, Benth. 1- c. Stems slender, branching, erect or ascending, a span or two 

 high, copiously stoloniferous at base : leaves entire, thickisli and veinless, with slightly 

 revolute margins; cauline linear or the lower spatulate, sessile, 5 to 9 lines long; those of 

 the creeping stolons ovate and orbicular, short-petioled, 2 or 3 lines long: flowers 1 to 

 3 in the axils: corolla a third of an inch long, fully twice the length of the calyx.— 

 Gray, Man. ed. 1 (1848), 325. Hedeoma glabra, Nutt. Gen. i. 16. H. Aikansana, Nutt. in 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. v. 186. Cunila glabra, Torr. Fl. 23. Micromeria glabella 

 (mainly) & M. Arkansana, Benth. Lab. 730, 871. M. glabella, var. angustifoUa, Torr. Fl. 

 N. Y. ii. 67. Calamintha glabella, var. Nuttallii, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 307, ed. 5, 349. —Niagara 

 Falls to Lake Superior, S. Missouri to Texas. 



* * More or less woody or shrubby at base : a foot or two high : lips of the calyx-teeth more un- 

 equal; the broader upper one barely and mostly obtusely 3-toothed. 

 C. Caroliniana, Sweet. Nearly glabrous: leaves ovate, obtuse, somewhat crenate 

 (6 to 14 lines long), abruptly narrowed into a short petiole : flowers few or several in the 

 axils, in a crowded subsessile cyme : bracts foliaceous : calyx oblong, strongly striate, very 

 villous in the throat, scarcely gibbous : corolla pink-purple or whitish and purple-spotted, 

 half inch long; the upper lip somewhat concave and incurved. — Hort. Brit. 809; Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 229. Thymus Carolinianus, Michx. ii. 9. T. grandiflorus, Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 997. Melissa Caroliniana, Benth. Lab. 388. — Dry ground, N. Carolina to Florida. 

 C. COCcinea, Benth. 1. c. Very minutely cinereous-puberulent or glabrous, bushy : 

 branches virgate : leaves obovate or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, subsessile, entire or obscurely 

 crenate, with somewhat revolute margins, thickish, veinless, about half inch long : short 

 peduncles 1-3-flowered : corolla scarlet, narrow, inch and a half long; the lips much 

 shorter than the tube. — Melissa coccinea, Spreng. Syst. ii. 224. Cunila coccinea, Nutt. ; Hook. 

 Exot. Fl. 1. 163. — Gardoquia Hoolceri, Benth. Lab. 401 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1747 ; Brit. Fl. Card, 

 ser. 2, t. 271. Satureia coccinea, Bertol. Misc. viii. 23. — Sandy soil, W. Florida to Mobile, 

 Alabama, near the shore ; flowering late. 

 C. ■ dentata, Chapm. Tomentulose-cinereous, diffusely branched : leaves obovate or 

 'somewhat cuneate, few-toothed at the rounded apex, subsessile, canescent and obscurely 

 veined beneath : flowers solitary or in threes, short-pedicelled : calyx shorter than in the 

 preceding; the short obscurely 3-toothed upper lip tinged with purple; subulate teeth of 

 the lower lip hairy: "upper stamens abbreviated, sterile." — FL 118. — Sand ridges near 

 Aspalaga, W. Florida, Chapman. In foUage, &c. much resembles C. coccinea, apparently 

 smaller-flowered : no perfect corolla seen. 



* * * Herbaceous to the base? and large-flowered: calyx less bilabiate; the teeth of the upper 

 lip very like those of the lower: corolla orange. 

 C. mimuloides, Benth. Tall, somewhat viscidly hirsute : leaves ovate, coarsely ser- 

 rate, membranaceous, on slender petioles : flowers mostly solitary in the axils, on slender 

 pedicels foliaceous-bracteate at base : calyx tubular (8 lines long), nearly naked in the 

 . throat ; the teeth cuspidate from a broad ovate or triangular base, equal in length, those 

 of tlie upper lip spreading : corolla inch and a half long, with a narrow tube twice the 

 length of the calyx. — PI. Hartw. 33. — California, on shady banks of Carmel River, near 

 Monterey, Hartweg. 



§ 2. Clinopodium, Benth. Flowers verticillastrate-capitate, and as it were 

 involucrate with conspicuous setaceous-subulate rigid bracts : calyx nearly naked 

 in the throat: anthers naked. 



C. Clinopodium, Benth. (Basil.) Herbaceous, hirsute: leaves ovate, obtuse, almost 

 entire, petioled : verticillastrate heads globular, many-flowered : teeth of the narrow tubu- 



