LabiatcsA FLORA 01 TASMANIA 
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calyx. Corolla campanulate, with its tube included in the calyx, and a i'our-ri.i'i. nearly equal limb, 
equal, erect, spreading. (Name, the /«v0a of the Greeks.) 
1. Mentha Australis (Br. Prodr. 505); caule erecto angulis scabris, foliis breve petiolutis ovatis 
lanceolatisve raro denticulatis glabris v. subtus canescentibus, verticillastris remotis axillaribus multiilons, 
pedicellis brevissimis, calyce longe tubuloso canescente fauce nudo dentibus subulatis, corolla; lobis oblongis 
superiore hi&diO.— Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 174. Micromeria Australis, Benth. Lab. 3S0. | G 
Hab. Common in marshy places.— (Fl. Dec.) (Colonial name, Penny-royal.) 
Distrib. Subtropical and temperate South-eastern Australia. 
An erect, slender, sparingly-branched herb, 1-2 feet high, very strongly odorous.— Stew* aeute-au-l< d, sealmd 
at the angles. Leaves petioled, ovate or lanceolate, 1 inch long, entire or toothed. Whorls axiUary. F/o,ren ped,- 
celled. Calyx very pubescent, nearly J inch long. 
2. Mentha gracilis (Br. Prodr. 505); caule gracili prostrato hevi v. pubescente, folns petioifttM 
ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis pube minuta canescentibus, verticillastris (>-K>-lW-i< axi - 
laribus, pedicellis brevibus, calyce longe tubuloso canescente fauce nudo dentibus subulatis, corolla lobtt 
obovatis superiore vix emarginato.-2?^. m DC. Prodr. xii. 174. M. Diemenica, Spring. Syst. ley. n. 
724. Micromeria gracilis, Benth. Lab. 380. {Gunn, 89, 529.) 
Hab. In stony places, not unfrequent.— (PI. Dec.) 
A very slender species.— Sterna short, prostrate, with long, graceful, -jMun.K bran. I. ..i. |> rl etl; -la »ow, 
pubescent/erect or inclined branches, 8-12 inches long. Leaves petioled, distant, ow.t. >> vai auee. i ^ ^< 
|-| inch long, quite entire, dotted beneath. Whorls axillary, sis- to ten-ilnunvd. / //vp > >• jij l'<-- ' ■ 
Caty* tubular, 2 lines long, pubescent, with short teeth. Corolla pink, uitl, ..!...wu. 1,,!., -.- ..» am t .. o .»«ui: 
are with difficulty distinguished, except by comparison, when the longer petaofal ol this aan J e 
S. Mentha serpyllifolia (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 174) ; caule gracili glabnus, .,,1,,, inlii* hm » 
sime petiolatis ovatis obtusis integerrimis, verticillastris axillaribus 2-4-flons, pcdiccll.. hnu»im.>, calyo. 
campanulas puberuli dentibus breviter lanceolatis intus villosis, corolte lobo supremo breviter bmdo.-Ui- 
cromeria repens, Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 274. {Gum, 558.) 
Var. ; puberula, foliis late ovatis ovato-cordatisve calycibusque latioribus.-^^. I ft. Micromeria 
affinis, Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. I. c. {Gunn, 864.) 
Hab. Not uncommon in marshes, etc., in various parts of the Island, Hampshire Hills, Circular 
Head, and Woolnorth, Gunn. Var. /3. Woolnorth.— (PL Dec.) 
Distrib. King River, Victoria, Mueller. 
A small, very slender, prostrate plant, much branched from the base.-«* glabrous 4-8 inches ong 
Leaves 4 hues long, nearly sessile, rather remote, ovate, blunt, quite entire, glabrous, P un ^^jJJ^ 
and subcordate at debase. Whorls axillary, of few flowers. O^tube campanulate, vdlous at the mouth, 
some stunted alpine specimens the whorls are terminal and the margins of the leaves revolute. 
Gen. II. LYCOPUS, Touru. 
Calyx campanulas aequalis, 4-5-dentatus, fauce nuda. Corolla calycem vix superans, campanula, 
^J^t^ 2supenor a steriha, filiformia, capiteUata corolla ^J^^SC 
fertilia, distantia; antheris loculis parallel. Stylus apice bifidus, ^f^^ 
heves, margine cllloso incrassato, trigone, truncate, basi attenuatae.-Herb,, folus dental, pu^fid^e , 
verticillastris densis, axillaribus; floribus /war**, sessihbm. 
A European, North American, and North Asiatic genus, whose reappearance in the extreme south of the 
