266 58. LABIATE. 



•'3. IS.^St. a foot Mgh. Bracts usually purple. L. often sligMly 

 tpothed.—Fl. purple. — Dry uncultiTated places. P. VIII. E.S.I. 



5. Tht'mtts Linn. Thyme. 



1. T. SerpyVlum (L.) ; st. prostrate creeping, 1. aH oUoug or 

 lanceolate nan'owed into tlie flat fringed stalks,^owermy shoots 

 ascending,^, capitate, upper cal.-lip wim 3 short triangidar teeth, 

 lower of 2 suhulate teeth, upper cor. -lip oblong. — The prostrate 

 rooting stem produces in its second year erect fl.-shoots from 

 its lower joinmgs and is prolonged at the end. L. narrowed 

 below, their lower half and the stalk often fringed, rather con- 

 spicuously veined beneath, bften narrow. Nuts globose, mealy. 

 Cor. purple'; upper lip conspicuously notched. — Dry heaths. P. 



2. T. Chamts'drys (Fr. ) ; stems alike diffuse ascending, 1. all 

 broadly oblong with flat fringed stalks, fl. whorled or capitate, 

 upper cal.-lip with S triangular teeth, lower of 2 subulate teeth, 

 dipper cor.-lip semicircular.-^-E. B. 8. 2992. — ^Flowering and 

 growing shoots springing intermixed from the old wood and 

 ascending. L. less narrowed into the stalks than in Sp. I, usu- 

 ally only the stalk is fringed, less prominently veined beneath, 

 broad. Nuts roundish, subcompressed, with a basal apiculus. 

 Cor. purple ; upper lip ^lightly and obscurely notched. In the 

 large forms the st. is stronger ; it is not so in Sp. 1. — Heaths. 

 P. yi.— VIII. E.S. L 



6. Calamin'tha Moench. Calamint. 

 * Jl. in whorls of 2 forked cymes. 



1. C. Nep'eta (plairv.) ; 1. ovate serrate pale beneath shortly 

 stalked, cal. rather bellshaped obscurely 2-lipped its teeth shortly 

 ciliate aU nearly of the same shape the upper ones slightly shorter, 

 cyine many-flowered its common stalk ahoid as long as the primary 

 partial stalk. — St. 70. 3. Thymtis Sni. — St. usually many from the 

 crown of the root, 12 — 18 in. high. Fl. purpHsh. ifairs in the 

 throat of the cal. protruded.- — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VIII. 

 Lesser Calamint. E. 



2. C. oMcmdlis (Moench P) ; 1. broadly ovate slightly serrate 

 gTeen on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubular distinctly 2- 

 lipped its teeth with long cilia those of the upper lip triangular 

 and ascending of the lower \twice as long and subulate, lower 

 lip of the cor. with distant segments the middle one longest, 

 cyme scarcely forked few-flowered its common stalk not i as long 

 as the primary partial stalk. — Thymus Calamintha Sm. C. men- 

 thcefoUa G. & G. — St. usually solitaryj, or few from the root, 



