lOlDIDYNAMIA-GYMNOSPERMIA.Clinopodium. 



minute, globular, solid, shining granulations, and soon 

 bursting in front into 2 cells. Germ. 4-lobed, abrupt. 

 St7/le thread-shaped, incurved. Stigvia of two acute 

 spreading segments. Seeds 4, quadrangular, abrupt, 

 hairy, in the tube of the slightly hardened, strongly vein- 

 ed calyx. 

 Herbaceous, erect, smooth or somewhat downy, rather 

 bitter than aromatic, with numerous, stalked, lobed or 

 cut leaves^ and very copious whorls of shaggy purplish 

 Jlo^wers. 



1. L. Cardiaca. Common Motherwort. 



Upper leaves lanceolate, either thrce-lobed or undivided. 



L. Cardiaca. Linn. Sp PL 817. Willd. r. 3. 1 1 4. Fl. Br. 637. 



Engl. Bot.v. 4. t. 286. Hook. Scot. 184. Fl. Dan. t. 727. Bull. 



Fr.t.273. Ehrh.Pl.0ff.M7. 

 Cardiaca. Raii Syn.239. Ger. Em.705.f. Dorsten. Bat. 65./. 



Fuchs. Hist. 395./. Matth. Valgr.v. 2. 472./. Camer. Epit. 



864 f. Riv. Monop Irr. t.20.f. 1. 

 C. n. 274. Hall. Hist. u. 1 . 1 1 9. 

 Galeopsis urticis similis. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 155./. 158. 



About hedges, on a gravelly or calcareous soil. 



In Selsey island, Sussex ; and between Tickhill, Yorkshire, and 

 Worksop. Hudson. Monmouthshire. Lightfoot in his herbarium. 

 In a lane near Combe wood, Surrey. Mr.Sowerby. In several 

 parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, as about Norwich, Bungay, and at 

 Cove near Beccles. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Herb bitter, with a pungent disagreeable smell. Stems 2 or 3 feet 

 high, wand-like, minutely downy, acutely quadrangular, with 

 intermediate channels, purplish, beset with very numerous pairs 

 of long-stalked, dark green, somewhat downy leaves ; the low- 

 ermost broadest, and deeply jagged ; upper ones acutely three- 

 lobed; those about the summitlanceolate and undivided. Whorls 

 numerous, axillary, many-flowered. Calyx rigid and pungent. 

 Cor. purplish ; the upper lip clothed with dense, white, shaggy, 

 upright hairs ; lower deeper coloured, variegated, smooth, in 

 3 nearly equal, entire lobes. 



The reputed tonic powers of this herb, or its use in palpitations 

 of the heart, or in that disease of the stomach called heart- 

 burn, are now little regarded. Yet hence originated its old ap- 

 pellation of Cardiaca. 



1S)7, CLINOPODIUM. Wild Basil. 



Linn. Gen. 296. Juss. 115. Fl. Br. 638. Tourn. t. 92. Lam. 

 t.bW. 



