14*4.. Clinopodium. 32. LABIATiE. PL ex. cor. 



Fields and hedges ; perennial ; August. 

 Stem fulvous, hairy j whirls terminal and axillary, many- 

 flpweredj peduncled; peduncles branched. — Aromatic. 



XXVII. 145. MELISSA. Brunsfels. Bawm. 

 Calyx tubular, rather naked or slightly hairy, spreading 



at top, mouth 2-lipped; upper lip flat, 3-toothed; lower 

 2-lobed ; galea arched, half 2-cut ; lip long, 3-parted ; 

 middle lobe largest, ovate; stamens 4, didynamous, — Flowers 

 in whirls, axillary. 



Melissa officinalis. Shop hawm. 



Stem much branched ; leaves ovate, acute, serrate ; whirls 

 halved, nearly sessile ; hractece oblong, pedicelled. 



Melissa, Ger. em. 6S9, 1. 

 Melissa vulgaris, Park. 40. 

 Melissa o^cinalis, Lin. S. P. 827. 

 Balm. 



Cultivated; perennial; July. 



heaves rather bald ; flowers reddish. — Plant aromatic ; 

 infusion used in cephalic, cardiac, uterine, and stomachic 

 affections, as also in stinking breath. 



XXVIII. 146. MELITTIS. Pliny. Bastard-lawm., 

 Calyx tubular, larger than the tube of the corolla, mouth 



naked, unequally 2 lipped; upper lip not cut, sometimes 

 2-cut ; lower lip 2-cut ; corolla lipped, tube cylindrical ; 

 galea arched, cut ; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe reverse heart- 

 shape, large, crenate ; anthers bent, cohering by pairs. — 

 Flowers axillary, 6 in a whirl, not bracteated. 



Melittis grandiflora. Large-flowered hastard-hawm. 



Stem simple; leaves -^etioled, ovate, serrate, hairy; whirls 

 6 toS-flowered; peduncles 1 -flowered. 



Melissa Fuchsii, Rati Syyi. 242, I. 

 Melissa Fuchsii flore purpureo, Oer. em. 690, 3. 

 Melissophyllum Fiiclisii, Park, 41. 

 Melissopiiyllum, Rivintts Man. 21,2. 

 Melittis Melissophyllum, Lin. S. P. 832. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial ; May and June. 



Root fibrous; stem hairy; flowers axillary; calyx co- 

 loured, 3-lobed; upper lobe not cut, pointed, nicked or 

 deeply 2-cut, even on the same plant; corolla downy, flesh- 

 eplour ; lip deep purple with a white border. 



