32 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



gradually enlarged upwards, under lip a little longer than the other. 

 Nucules dark brown, roundish-ovoid, plano-convex, nearly smooth. 

 Plant more or less hairy with woolly hairs, those on the stem reflexed, 

 showing a disposition to an arrangement in 2 strips; hairs on the 

 leaves most numerous on the veins beneath. 



Wild Basil. 



Frencli, Clin^pode. German, Wirheldost. 

 All the plants of tliis genus yield a fragrant aromatic oil and an agreeable odour. 



Sub-Genus II.— ACINOS. 3fonch. 



VerticiUasters of about 6 flowers, without a common peduncle. 

 Bracteoles few, minute, subulate, not forming an involucre to the 

 whorl. Calyx tube curved, conspicuously gibbous on the under side 

 a little above the base. 



SPECIES II.— C ALAMINTHA ACINOS. Clairv. 

 Plate MXLVIII. 



Reich, Xc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. JICCLXXIX. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 830. 



Thymu.s Acinos, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. PI. 411. 



Melissa Acinos, Benth. Cat. p. 389. 



Acinos vulgaris, Pers. Syn. PI. Vol. 11. p. 181. 



Leaves rhombic-oval or rhomboidal-elliptical, attenuated at each end, 

 subacute, remotely serrate in the apical half or repand. Flowers 

 racemose; verticillasters separate, shorter* than the bracts, -without a 

 common stalk to the cymes, so that each Avhorl consists of 6 (rarely 

 4 or 8) separate flowers. Bracteoles lanceolate, much shorter than the 

 pedicels. Calyx making an angle with the pedicel; tube slightly 

 curved, very gibbous at the base below, especially in fruit; teetli 

 two-thirds the length of the tube, the 3 upper ones triangular-subulate 

 and abruptly bent upwards below the middle, the 2 lower narrowly 

 subulate and slightly curved upwards. Corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx, hairy on the outside; upper lip slightly notched, the middle 

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



On dry banks and in fields, on chalky, gravelly, or sandy soils. Rather 

 scarce, but generally distributed over England. Rare in Scotland, 

 extending north to the counties of Aberdeen, Moray, and Ayr. Very 

 i-arc in Ireland, and only occurrmg on the south-eastern part of the 

 island. 



* Reckoning from the axil of the bract to the tip of the calyx teeth. 



