DIDYNAMIA-GYMNOSPERMIA.Clinopodium.lOS 



Invohicrum of numerous taper leaves, under the flowers, 

 nearly equal to the calyx in length, permanent. Cal. tu- 

 bular, many-ribbed, slightly curved, two-lipped ; upper 

 lip broadest, ascending, in 3 deep acute equal segments; 

 lower longest, incurved, in 2 deep slender segments ; 

 throat closed with converging hairs. Cor, ringent ; tube 

 cylindrical, rather short ; throat longer and wider ; up- 

 per lip erect, concave, obtuse, slightly cloven ; lower in 

 3 deep segments, the middle one very broad, notched. 

 Filam. all directed to the upper lip, cylindrical, converg- 

 ing, shorter than the corolla. Anth. two-lobed, each 

 pair meeting so as to form a cross. Germ, four-lobed, 

 small. Style thread-shaped, equal to the stamens. Stig- 

 ma in 2 pointed lobes. Seeds 4, ovate, in the bottom of 

 the closed tumid calyx. 



Slightly aromatic herbs, with undivided leaves, and com- 

 pound, stalked, hairy, axillary and terminal whorls of 

 light-purplish j^ow^r^. 



This genus is distinguished from Thymus merely by the 

 concavity of the upper lip of the corolla, which is* very 

 slight, and by the presence of an involucrum, which is 

 not really a part of the fructification. As the species are 

 few, they might perhaps be referred to Thymus. 



1. Q.vidgare. Common Wild Basil. 



Whorls bristly. Involucral leaves awl-shaped. Flower- 

 stalks branched. Leaves obscurely serrated. 



C.viilgare. Linn. Sp. PL 821. W'i/Zrf.u. 3. 131. Fl. Br. 638. Engl. 

 Bol. V. 20. ^. 1 40 1 . Hook. Scot. 1 84. Fl. Dan. t. 930. Matth. 

 Valgr.v.2. 169./. 



C. n.239. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 104. 



('. origano simile. Bauh. Pin. 224. Rail Syn. 239. 



Clinopodium. Camer. Epit. 563. f. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 43./. I . 



Acynos. Ger. Etn. 67b. f. 



Acinos. Loh. Ic. 504./. 



In bushy places, about hedges, and by road sides, on a gravelly or 

 chalky soil. 



Perennial. August. 



Herb hairy, weakly aromatic, of a rather light green, with ascend- 

 ing wavy stems, a foot high, more or less. Leaves ovate, about 

 an inch long, with shallow serratures, and rather short stalks ; 

 their ribs fringed beneath with cop'ous bristly hairs. Whorls few, 

 axillary and terminal, of numerous, light purple, not unhand- 

 some Jlowers, on forked or branched, hairy stalks, subtended by 

 narrow, awl-shaped, hairy involucral leaves, or rather hracteas. 

 All the hairs are course and spreading, like those on the calyx, 



