384. 142. Galamintha. S2. LABIAT^E. PL ex. cor, 



XXIV. 142. CALAMINTHA. Dioscorides. Calamint. 

 Calyx streaked, dry, flattish above ; mouth closed with 

 hairs ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip even, 3-toothed ; lower lip 

 2-cut ; corolla lipped ; mouth rather inflated ; galea nicked ; 

 lip S-parted; middle lobe slightly nicked or crenulated ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous. — Flowers in whirls, axillary; wliirls 

 peduncled ; peduncles forked. 



1 . Calaminlha vulgaris. Common calamint. 

 Stem weak, hirsute ; leaves ovate, blunt, serrate, hirsute, 



punctured; peduncles axillary, many-flowered, forked, co- 

 rymbose ; lower lobes of the calyx villous, twice as long as 

 the upper lobes. 



Calamintha vulgaris, Raii Syn. 243, 1 ; Park. 36. 

 Calamintha vul^^aris officinarum, Ger. em. 68T. 

 Calamentha, Rivinns Mon. 46. 

 Melissa Calamintha, Lin. S. P. 827, 

 Thymus Calamintha, Scop. Carn. 133. 

 Calamintha montana, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 391 . 

 Thymus Calamentha, Withering Bot. Arr. 664. 

 Calamintha officinalis, Mcench. Meth. 409. 



Roads and waysides ; perennial ; July and August. 



Stem upright : leaves petioled, veined, acutely serrated, 

 pale beneath ; hairs at the mouth of the calyx enclosed ; 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, light violet; galea arched: 

 odour aromatic, pleasant. 



2. Calamintha trichotoma. Three-forked calamint. 

 Stern ascending, rather hirsute ; leaves ovate, blunt, 



slightly serrate, rather bald ; peduncles axillary, many- 

 flowered, forked, corymbose ; teeth of the calyx nearly equal. 



Calamintha oflore puU'gii, jR«« S^/". 243, 2} Ger. em. 68.7,4, 



Calamintha minor incana. Park. 31 . 



Calamintha folio incuno, Rivinus Mon. 47. 



Melissa Nepeta, Lin. S. P. S2^. 



Thymus Nepeta, Smith Fl. Brit. 612. 



Calamintha parviflnra, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 396. 



Calaminlha trichotoma, Mcench. Meth. 409, 



Field calamint. 



Hedges and waysides; perennial; August. 



Stem I'ather woody ; leaves broadly and bluntly serrated; 

 2 2ipper teeth of the calyx upright or recurved ; hairs at the 

 mouth prominent, white. . 



