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Calamintha.~\ 



LXIII. LABIATE. 



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a town so 



end. — Kame of doubtful origin ; some say from 

 called in Italy. 



1. *M. imlgurelj. {common ivMte II.) ; everywhere hoary with a 

 white thick pubescence or woolliness, stem erect, leaves roundish- 

 ovate toothed or crenate wrinkled, caljx with 10 setaceous 

 hooked teeth, upper lip of the corolla oblono- bifid B 7? 

 1 410. ° 



Waste places and way-sides, but scarcely wild. Frequent in 

 England; less common in Scotland, where it is found near Edinbur<^h • 

 also m Ireland. ?4. . 8, 9. _ Stem 1-li ft. l.igb, busbv. Flowers 

 small, almost white, m crowded whorls. Smell aromatic ; flavour 

 bitter. This plant has been much in use for coughs and asthmas. 



stamens the longest. 



** Calyx 2-lipped. The two anterior 



(Gen. 17—20.) 



t Strunens distant, hut converging under 



corolla. (Gen. 17.) 



17. Calami^'tha il/awcA. Calaminth. Basil-Thyme. Wild- 



the upper lip of the 



Basil. 



Cal. lo_-nerved, tubular: upper Up 3-, lower 2-fid, throat 

 mostly hau'y. Tvhe- o^ the cor. straight: upper lip straio-ht 

 nearly plane; lower one spreading trifid. Anthav-celh at length 



diver 





Connectivurn subtriangular. 



^,,A - ,- . . i . ^ " Name: icaXog, good, 



ana iiivut, mint; a plant whose scent drove away serpents. 



* Cal gibbous at the base below. Middle lobe of the loiver lip of cor. 

 nearly entire. Whorls of about 6 simple 1 -flowered pedicels, with 

 almost 710 bracteas. Acinos. 



1. C A'cinos Clalrv. (common B.) ; stem ascendin;? branched 

 o?r! 1 A "-r?.? '''^'■^ stalks^aciite serrate more or less ciliated 



Acinos vulgaris Pe7^s, 



Rare 



at the base. Thymus Z.; £. ^. t. 411. 



Cultivated fields, especially m a gravelly, sandy, chalky soil. 



3n Scotland : Nortli O,.oo...f, e.„ A m '^ n,. "^^ « • i 



Stem 6 — 8 inches 



long. 



North Queensferry, &c. 0. 

 Leaves sometimes almost entire. 



7. 



T fMir^v 7- c.x "V. "-w.^.^1, .^.iiiic. Flowers bluish-purple. 



ft-=ir-nt';.°omatic." "^'^^ ''" "^'''^' "°™"^* emargluate. Smell 



** Cal. nearly equal at the lase. Middle hie of the lower Up of cor 



wi?]', nw^'"'""? -^'"'^ ^"'^ ^°^"^- ^^^'^'^ ^O ; Stem herbaceous 



^tleKnlo '"* '^'^f ",^^ «^ ^'^'^ ^'^^^^^^^ le^^-es shortly 



shor ly cTliited Til ^ ^"^campanulute obscurely 2-lipped, teeth 

 ny ciluited all nearly of the same shape, the upper ones 



