Calamintha. LABIATE. 359 



S. rigida, Bartram. Cespitose-procumbent, suffrutescent : leaves crowded, rigid, subu- 

 late-lanceolate, with strongly revolute margins, obtuse, quarter inch long, scabrous or 

 becoming smooth, above passing into the broader and flatter villous-hirsute bracts : calyx 

 equally and deeply 5-cleft, membranaceous: corolla light purple; the tube (3 lines long) 

 much shorter than the lips : filaments at length exserted. — Benth. Lab. 354, & DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 211. — E. Florida, in sand. 



18. MICROMERIA, Benth. (J\Iiy.n6s\ small, and fisgog, a part, from small 

 size of flowers, &c.) — Chiefly of the Old AVorld. Our two species, of the section 

 Hksperotiiymus, are diffusely spreading or creeping perennial herbs, with slender 

 stems, rounded and petioled veiny thin leaves, and 1 to 3 slender-pedicelled purplish 

 flowers in their axils ; in summer. To these an anomalous Californiau species is 

 added. 



M. Brownei, Benth. Glabrous, or nearly- so : leaves roundish, obscurely crenate : pedi- 

 cels bractless : calyx villous in the -throat ; teeth lanceolate-ovate.. — Lab. 372 ; Schmidt in 

 Fl. Bras. viii. t. -"U. Thijmus Brownei, Swartz. — River-banks, Florida. ( W. Ind., S. Am.) 



Var. pilosiliscula, with leaves (perhaps shorter-petioled) and sometimes stem and 

 calyx sparsely pilose-pubescent : passes into M. Xalapensis, Benth., and as such is enume- 

 rated in Bot. Jlcx. Bound. 129. — Texas, near San Antonio ( Thurber), and southward. ( Jlata- 

 moras, Berlandier, Jlex., &c.) 

 . ^-M. Douglasii, Benth. 1. c. (Yekba Bcexa.) Somewhat pubescent : trailing and creep, 

 ing stem elongated : leaves broadly ovate or roundish ; pedicels 2-bracteolate below : caly.-c 

 naked in the throat; the teeth subulate. — .1/. harbata, Fisch. & Meyer. Thi/mus Douglasii 

 & T. Chamissoiiis, Benth. in Linn. vi. 80. — Woods, Vancouver's Island to Los Angeles Co., 

 California. 



M. purpurea, Gray. Erect, much branched, probably from an annual root, minutely 

 and loosely pubescent: leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, acutely serrate (inch 

 long), with dense umbelliform cymules subsessile in their axils : calyx oblong-campanulate, 

 a line and a half long, about equalling the pedicels, naked in the throat ; teeth slender- 

 subulate, almost equalling the small " purple-blue " corolla. — Bot. Calif, i. -505. Hedeoma 

 purpurea, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 52. (All 4 stamens antheriferous.) — Webb's 

 Landing on an island in the San Joaquin River, California, Kellogg. 



M. bkacteolAta, Benth. 1. c, founded on " Hedeoma bracteolaia. Pubescent, stem simple, 

 slender : leaves linear-sublanceolate, acute at each extremity, entire : pedicels setaceously 

 bracteolate, 3-5-flowered: calyx oblong, equal: corolla minute 1 In Carolina." — Xutt. 

 Gen. Addend. This is wholly obscure. 



19. CALAMlNTHA, Tourn., Mcench. Calamint. (Old Greek name 

 of some plant of this order.) — Herbs or undershrubs, chiefly of warm-temperate 

 regions, of various habit, flowering all summer. OiU'S are perennials, and are 

 various in habit. 



C. PXlmeri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 100, an annual, of the Acinos section and the habit 

 and odor of Hedeoma, belongs to Lower California, much beyond our limits. 



§ 1. Flowers loose, and without long-subulate bracts: calyx in ours usually 

 villous in the throat : anthers naked. 



# Herbaceous, small-flowered : corolla pale purple or near!}- white, 

 -t— Introduced, pubescent: peduncles short but mostly distinct, several-flowered: calyx conspicu- 

 ously villous in the throat. 



C. i^EPETA, Link. (B.4SIL Thyme.) Villous- or cinereous-pubescent, 1 to 3 feet high : leaves 

 roundish-ovate, crenate (half inch long), short-petioled ; uppermost reduced to bracts : 

 braetlets minute : corolla 4 lines long. — Benth. Lab. & in DC. xii. 228. ^felissa Xepeta, L. 

 Thymus Xcpela, Smith, Engl. Bot. 1. 1414. — Dry waste grounds, from Maryland to Arkansas. 

 (Nat. from Eu.) 



C. OFFici>ALis, Jlcench, Meth. 409, the common Calamint of Europe, is inclined to escape 

 from cultivation in a few places. 



