278 58. LABIATJB. 



2. T. Chanus'drys (Pr.) ; steins alike diffuse ascending, 1. all 

 broadly oblong: witb flat fringed stalks, fl. whorled or capitate, 

 upper cal.-lip with 3 triangular teeth, lower of 3 subulate 

 teeth, upper cor.-Up semicircular. — E. B. 8. 2992. — Forming a 

 tuft of flowering and barren shoots ; the st. of preceding year 

 ending in a fl.-shoot. L. less narrowed into the stalks than in 

 Sp. 1, usually only the stalk is fringed, less prominently veined 

 beneath, broad. Nutlets roundish, subcompressed, with a basal 

 apiculus. Oor. purple ; upper lip slightly and obscurely notched. 

 In the large forms the St. is stronger; it is not so in Sp. 1. — 

 Heaths. P. VI.— VIH. E. S. 



6. CALAMiif'THA Moeudi. Calamint. 

 * Fl. in whorls of 2 forked cymes. 



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

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

 dliate all nearly of the same shape the upper ones slightly 

 shorter and broader, cyme many-flowered its common stalk 

 about as long as the primary partial stalk. — Thymus L. E. B. 

 1414. — St. usually many from the crown of the root, 12 — 18 in. 

 high ; branches short, erect. Fl. purple. Hairs in the throat 

 of the cal. protruded. — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VHI. Lesser 

 Calamint. E. 



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

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

 Iipped 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, fl. at an angle with the 

 pedicel. — Thymus Galamintha L. IE. B. 1676. C. mertthcefolia 

 G. & Gr. — St. usually solitary, or few from the root, 1—2 ft. 

 high ; branches long, ascending. Fl. purplish. HaiYs in the 

 throat of the cal. included. Larger in all its parts than the 

 preceding. — a. C. menthifolia (Host) ; ped. of cyme J as long as 

 the primary partial stalk. — ^. C. ascendens (Jord.) ; ped. of 

 lower cymes as long as or longer than the primary partial stalk. 

 C. off. 0. Briggsii (Syme). Sy. E. B. 1051. — Dry banks, rare. 

 j3. Devon. P. VII. — IX. Common Calamint. E. I. 



3. C. syhat'ica (Bromf.) ; 1. broadly ovate sharply serrate, cal. 

 tubular distinctly 2-lipp6d, teeth with long cilia those of the 

 upper lip patent or refiexed, lower lip of the cm\ with overlapping 

 segments all nearly equally long, cyme many-flowered its common 

 stalk about as long as the primary partial stalk. — E. B. 8. 2897. 



