548 ORDER 89. LABIAT^G. 



1 C. Clinopodium Benth. WILD BASIL. Villous ; Ivs. ovate, subserrate ; ver- 

 ticils dense, sessile, many-flowered, hairy; bracts numerous, subulate. 2 Low 

 woods, N. and W. States. Plant 1 to 2f high. St. square, simple or sparingly 

 branched, and as well as the whole plant, clothed with whitish hairs. Lvs. peti- 

 olate, tapering to an obtuse point, pale. Els. purplish, in heads mostly terminal, 

 near 1' wide, involucrate with bracts. 



2 C. Nepeta Link. Villous with soft, whitish hairs, much branched below; 

 Ivs. small, broad-ovate, obtuse, subserrate, petiolate ; cymes few-flowered in the 

 upper axils, becoming somewhat racemed ; cal. teeth subulate, the 2 lower longer ; 

 cor. upper lip emarginate, the lower in 3 equal lobes. Dry hills, roadsides, &c., 

 throughout Tenn. and Va. Plant about 2f high, strongly aromatic. Lvs. about 

 half an inch long. Cor. white, thrice longer (3 to 4"), than the calyx. JL, Aug. 

 Eur. 



3 C. glabSlla Benth. Glabrous, decumbent at base, diffusely branched ; Ivs. 

 narrowly oblong, subpetiolate, few- toothed or entire, tapering to the base ; verti- 

 cils 6 to 10-flowered ; cal. teeth subulate-acuminate ; bracts as long as the pedicels 

 On limestone rocks, Ohio to Ark Sts. 1 to 2f long. Lvs. 1' to 18" long. Cor. 

 moderately bilabiate, near twice longer (4 to 5") than the calyx, pale violet. Jn. 



/?. DIVERSIFOLIA. Flowering stems nearly erect, the barren prostrate, like 

 runners, bearing small, ovate, entire Ivs. ; plant generally smaller, with the 

 floral Ivs. narrow, and mostly entire. Limestone rocks, Niagara Falls, to the 

 Falls of St. Anthony, and to Ark. Fragrant like pennyroyal. Upright sts. 

 6 to 12' high. Lvs. 1'. Lvs. of the runners 3 to 4" long. (C. Nuttallii 

 Benth.) These two very diverse forms are connected by specimens found in 

 Ohio (Sullivant apud Torrey), having the characteristics of both. 



4 C. can^scens Torr. & Gr. Minutely canescent-downy, shrubby; Ivs. linear, 

 obtuse, entire, rcvoliite-edged, much fascicled; verticils of 2 opposite fls. ; cor. thrice 

 longer than the strongly 2-lipped calyx. Sandy seaboards, Fla. Shrub scarce a 

 foot high, with numerous Ivs., 7 to 8" by 1", and few rose-red pretty fls., as large 

 as in No. 2. May. 



5 C. coccfnea Benth. Lvs. narrowly obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, short-peti- 

 oled ; verticils of 2 to 6 fls. ; cal. upper lip very short, tube 3 or 4 times shorter 

 than the ample corolla. E. Fla. Shrub with virgate branches. Lvs. 6 to 8" long. 

 Cor. a fine scarlet, glandular-pubescent, 15 to 18" long. (Cunila coccinea Nutt.) 



6 C. Caroliniana Swartz. Sts. glabrous and simple; Ivs. very smooth, ovate, 

 obtuse, crenate-serrate, tapering to a petiole ; cymes few-flowered, on short pedun- 

 cles ; cal. strongly 2-lipped, nearly naked in the throat ; cor. ample, tube enlarged 

 upwards. Dry woods, N. Car. to Fla. and La. A pretty flowerer, somewhat 

 shrubby, If high or more. Cymes in the upper axils 3 to 5-flowered. Lvs. 1'or 

 less long. Bracts as long as the calyx, the corolla thrice longer (7 to 8"), ro.sc- 

 purple, spotted. Jn. Aug. (C. grandiflora Ph.) 



19. MELIS'SA, Tourn. BALM. (Gr. name of the bee, from peA, 

 honey ; which bees seek in these flowers.) Calyx 13-ribbed, the upper 

 lip 3-toothed, flattened and dilated, lower bifid ; corolla tube recurved- 

 ascending, upper lip erect, flattish, lower spreading, 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe mostly broadest ; stamens ascending. 



M. officinalis L. Pubescent ; st. erect, branching ; fls. in loose, axillary cymes, 

 subsessile ; Ivs. ovate, acute, coarsely crenate-serrate, on slender petioles ; bracts 

 few, ovate-lanceolate, petiolate. U N. Eng. to Ind. and Tenn., in waste grounds 

 and in the deepest forests. A well known garden plant. St. 1 to 2 to 3f high. 

 Lvs. 2 to 3' long, petioles 1' or more. Bracts of the same form, diminished. Cor. 

 twice longer (7") than the calyx, yellowish white. JI, Aug. J Eur. Fra- 

 grant of lemons. Balm tea is a popular remedy. 



20. SAL'VIA, L. SAGE. (Lat. salveo, to be in health ; probably 

 from its salutary qualities.) Calyx striate, bilabiate, upper lip 3-toothed 

 or entire, lower bifid, throat naked ; corolla ringent, tube equal, upper 

 lip straight or falcate, lower spreading or pendent, 3-lobed ; stamens 2, 

 connectile transversely articulated to the filament, supporting at each 



