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1 — 2 ft. high. Oor. purple, small ; upper lip concave, laterally 

 compressed, straight except at the tip. Upper cal.-lip broad ; 

 teeth small, converging. — Dry gravelly hanks. P. V. VI 

 r.....7.-.i ^_„. E.S.I. 



2. ?S. clandestina (L.) ; 1. oblong cordate below sinuate-den- 

 tate or incise-dentate stalked, upper I. oblong acute sessile 

 scarcely cordate or clasping, bracts cordate acuminate, tube of 

 the cor. exceeding the calyx. — St. a foot high. Cor. purple, 

 small; upper lip very broad, teeth very small. — Probably 

 distinct from the preceding, but very difficult to characterize. 

 Syme's plant (Sy. E. B. 1057) seems different. — Dry gravelly 

 banks, rare. Lizard, Cornwall. Channel Isles. P. VII. E. 



3. S.praten'sis (L.); 1. oblong-ovate cordate below, crenate- 

 dentate stalked, upper 1. small, sessile lanceolate acute, bracts 

 cordate acuminate, cor. thrice as long as the calyx. — E. B. 153. 

 — St. 1 — 2 ft. high. Known by its large flowers.— Oobham. 

 Kent. Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire. P. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Satureineee. 



4. ORie'AifUM Linn. Marjoram. 



1. O. vulgdre (L.) ; 1. stalked broadly ovate, bracts ovate ex- 

 ceeding the cal., heads of fl. ovoid or oblong panicled crowded. 

 — E. B. 1143. — St. a foot high. Bracts usually purple. L. 

 often slightly toothed. Fl. purple. — Spikes sometimes pris- 

 matic and oblong. O. megastachyum Link, Sy. E. B. 1046.^ 

 Dry uncultivated places. P. VIII. E. S. I. 



5. Thymus Linn. Thyme. 



1. T. Serpyl'lum (L.) ; gt. prostrate creeping, 1. all oblong or 

 lanceolate narrowed into the flat fringed ^2i\ka,Jlowering shoots 

 ascmditig, fl. capitate, upper cal. -lip with 3 short triangular 

 teeth, lower of 2 subulate teeth, upper cor.-lip oblong. — E B. 

 1514. — ^Forming a cushion with a fringe of prostrate barren 

 shoots which m the next year produce erect fl.-shoots from 

 their lower j oinings and are prolonged at the end. L. narrowed 

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

 spicuously veined beneath, often narrow. Nutlets globose, 

 mealy. Cor. purple ; upper lip conspicuously notched. — Dry 

 heaths. P. VL— Vin. E. S. L 



