36 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



peduncles offen much elongated : the whole plant has more the aspect 

 of M. sylvatica. 



Common Calamint. 

 Freucli, Calamcnt Ascendant. 



SPECIES v.— CALAMINTHA SYLVATICA. Bromf. 

 Plate MLII. 



Bdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVni. Tab. MCCLXXVI. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2792. 



C. ofiicinalis, Jord. Obs. PI. nouv. et crit. Frag. 4. p. 4. Grcn. & Godi: Fl. de Fi, 



Vol. n. p. 663. 

 C. officinalis vulgaris, Heich. fil. 1. c. p. 44. 



Stems flexuous, nearly simple, or witli elongate ascending lateral 

 branches. Leaves ovate or rhombic-ovate, subobtuse, serrate or deeply 

 crenate-serrate. Flowers in a rather long lax unilateral panicle; 

 lower verticillasters about as long as the bracts, stalked; peduncle 

 shorter than the bract, equal to or longer than the pedicel of the cen- 

 tral flo^ver of the cyme. Calyx shorter than the pedicel, making an 

 angle Avith it ; 3 upper teeth triangular, abruptly recurved and spread- 

 ing, the 2 lower twice as long as the upper, slightly curved upwards, 

 triangular, insensibly acuminated into long subulate points, aU ciliated 

 with long hairs ; throat closed mth hairs, which are entirely concealed 

 ■within the tube. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx teeth ; lobes 

 of the lower lip contiguous, the middle lobe scarcely exceeding the 

 lateral ones in length, Ijroader than long. 



On a chalky bank, gro-wuig among Rubus ctesius and Nepeta Gle- 

 choma, in woods on the western side of a small valley between Apes- 

 down and Rowledge fai-ms, rather less than 3 miles W.S.W. of 

 Newport, Isle of Wight. Discovered by the late Dr. Bromfield 

 in 1843. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer, Auturon. 



This plant is xerj near C. menthifolia : but the rootstock is more dis- 

 tinctly creeping ; the stems less branched, AA-ith more spreading branches ; 

 the loaves lai-ger, more ovate, more deeply and sharply toothed, 

 and with shorter petioles ; cymes more distant and more lax, more dis- 

 tinctly forked, with longer peduncles; calyx more narrowed towards 

 the base, the upper teeth more abruptly retiexed ; corolla much larger, 

 ^ to 1 inch long, purplish rose, variegated Avith white on the lower 

 lip, which has broader lobes ; nucules broader and smoother. 



In both this and the preceding species short stolons are emitted ia 

 autumn, which take root at the base. 



Wood Calamint. 

 French, Calament des Bois. German, GebrducJiUche Calaminthe. 



