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ii])]icr Ii|) of the corolla; nntlier-cells !it length diverging ut the base, 

 not contiguous at tlie apex. 



Herbs or undershrubs of various habit. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants appears to bo from naXoc (kales), 

 su-etl, and fiiiOa (minthn), mint. 



Sub-Genus I.— CLINOPODIUM. Linn. 



Vertieillasters many-flowered ; the cymes with a very short common 

 peduncle, or without any. I'ractcoles setaceous, numerous, forming a 

 kind of involucre to the whorl. Calyx tube slightly curved, not con- 

 spicuously gibbous on the under side. 



SPKCIES I.-CALAMINTHA CLINOPODIUM. Sjn;ui. 



Plate MXLVH. 



lieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCLXXIV. Fig. 1. 



liUlol, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. G08. 



Clinopodium vulgare, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1401. et Auct. Plitr. 



Leaves ovate or deltoid- or rhombic- or lanceolate-ovate, subobtuse 

 or subacute, rcpand or faintly crenate-serrate. Flowers in a termi- 

 nal head, with distant whorls beneath it ; vertieillasters very shortly 

 stalked. Bracts setaceous, as long as the pedicels and calyx. Calj'x 

 erect on the pedicel; tube slightly curved, indistinctly gibbous at its 

 base below ; teeth two-thirds the length of the tube, the 3 upper tri- 

 angular, abruptly acuminated into subulate points, 'straight, diverginif, 

 the 2 lower subulate and slightly curved upwards. Corolla 2 to 3 

 times as long as the calyx, hairy on the outside; upper lip emarginate, 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip larger than the others and emarginate. 



In bushy places, hedges, and open woods. Common, and generally 

 distributed throughout the kingdom; reaching north to Moray, Aber- 

 deen, and Lanark. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock woody, shortly creeping, much branched, in autumn pro- 

 ducing stolons similar to those of Origanum vulgare. Stem generally 

 unbranched, erect or subdecumbent, flexuous, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves 

 distant, the lamina 1 to 2 inches long; bracts similar, but narrower; 

 tb.ose of the terminal head sometimes much smaller, but generallv nearly 

 as large aa the others. Cymes shortly stalked, with numerous long 

 slender bracteoles. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx nearly i inch 

 long, striate, thinly clothed with spreading bristly hairs, green, the teeth 

 olten purple. Corolla J to 1 inch long, purplish crimson, the tube 



