DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Thymus. 109 



short grasses which usually accompany it, is still a matter of 

 great doubt. 



2. T. Acinos, Basil Thyme. 



Flowers about six in a whorl, on simple stalks. Stem 

 branched, ascending. Leaves acute, serrated. Calyx 

 protuberant at the base. 



T. Acinos. Linn. Sp. PI. 826. Willd.v. 3. 142. Fl. Br. 64]. Engl. 



Bot. V. 6. <.41 1. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. t. 43. Hook. Scot. 185. 



Bull. Fr.t. 31S. 

 Clinopodium n. 237. Hall. Hist. ?;. 1 . 1 04. 

 C. vulgare. Loh. Ic. ^^06./. 

 Acinos. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 43. f. 2. 



A. multis. Rati Syn. 238. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p.2. 259. f. ' 

 Ocymum sylvestre. Ger. Em. 675./. 

 Ocimastrum. Fuchs. Hist. 896./. 

 Small Wild Basil. Pet. H. Brit. t. 32./. 10. 



In cultivated fields, especially on a sandy, gravelly, or chalky soil. 



Annual. Juli/, August. 



Root fibrous, small, bearing several branched, spreading, wavy, 

 leafy stems, near a span high ; their angles blunt ; the opposite 

 sides most downy. Leaves rather larger than the preceding, 

 stalked, ovate, acute, slightly revolute, and bluntly serrated ; 

 rough at the edges and veins ; scarcely dotted, and but slightly 

 aromatic. Fl. in several axillary whorls, usually 6 in each, of a 

 blueish purple, prettily variegated about the lip, with white and 

 a darker purple, the central lobe being dilated and slightly 

 notched. Cal. much swelled in front after flowering. The 

 leaves are occasionally entire. 



3. T. Calamintha. Common Calamint. 



Whorls on forked, many-flowered stalks. Leaves with shal- 

 low serratures. Hairs in the mouth of the calyx not 

 prominent. 



T. Calamintha. ficop. Cam. ed. 2. v. \. 425. Fl.Br. 641. Engl. Bot. 



r. 24. M676. Relh. 238. 

 Melissa Calamintha. Linn.Sp.Pl.827. Willd.v. 3.] 47. Huds.263. 



Purt.v.l. 284. Bull. Fr.t. 25\. Ehrh. PI. Off. \36. 

 M. n. 241. Hall. Hist. i;. 1 . 105. 

 Calamintha. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 76./. Camer. Epit. 481 ./. Riv. 



Monop. Irr. t. 46./. 2. 

 C. vulgaris. Raii Sijn. 243. 

 C. vulgaris officinarum. Ger. Em. 687./. 

 C. montana. Dod. Pempt. 98./. 

 C. montana vulgaris. Lob. Ic. 513./. 



