'378 LABIATE. [Calami ntha. 



p. citriodora. Lemon-scented Thyme. 



y. Stem and leaves very haiiy. 



On dry turfy banks and heathy pastures, and heathy hilly places ; abundantly. 

 Fl. July — September. If. 



13. Boadside near the Sandrock spring. 



7. Not uncommon about Ryde, &c. 



Dr. Darlington tells us that within his recollection it was a prevalent vulgar 

 notion in America that wild Thyme sprung up spontaneously in spots where 

 human blood had been spilt by any casualty or violence, FL Cest. p. 347. The 

 idea, though revolting, is not without its poetry, but how widely dififerenl from the 

 images of peace and repose which the thyme-covered bank suggests to the rustic 

 muse in Europe. 



Common or garden Thyme {Thi/mus vulgaris) is naturalized on the wall of a 

 garden at Niton. 



Tribe IV. Melissiseje, Benth. 



" Corolla 2-'lipped. Stamens distant. Anther-cells connected 

 above." — Bab. Man. 



VI. CAiiAMiNTHA, Mosnch. Calamint. 



Ve7'ticillasters axillary, stalked, cymosely dicliotomous, with 

 minute subulate bracts, few- or many-flowered and forming lax 

 secund racemes. Calyx tubular or subcampanulate, many-ribbed, 

 distinctly 2-lipped, scarcely gibbous at base, the mouth hairy 

 within. Corolla with the upper lip straight, nearly flat, lower lip 

 3-lobed, patent. 



* " Calyx gibbous at the base below. Middle lobe of the lotver lip of corolla nearly 

 entire. Whorls of about 6 simple 1-Jlowered pedicels, with almost no bracteas. 

 Acinos.'' — £r. Fl. 



1. G. Acinos, GlaivY. Basil Thyme. Stem ascending branched, 

 leaves oblong on short stalks acute serrated more or less ciliated 

 at the base. Br. Fl. p. 321. Thymus, L.: E. B. t. All. Aci- 

 nos vulgaris, Pers. 



3. Flowers pure white. 



In dry, open, chalky, gravelly or sandy fields, fallows and stony hilly pastures ; 

 not uncommon. Fl. June — August. ©. 



JE. Med. — Field in the angle formed by Eagle-head and Bloodstone copses, 

 near Ashey, plentifully, 1838. On Kennerley heath, and in sandy fields about 

 Newchurch, Bordwood, Queen Bower, &c., frequent. Abundant in high chalky 

 fields above Sandown bay, near the Culvers, 1848. Fields near Bembridge down, 

 W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. Near Princelade, Mr. D. Snooke. 



W. Med. — Between Thorley and Shalcombe. Near Alum bay. About Caris- 

 brooke castle, Mr. D. Snooke. 



/3. Sandy ground below Queen Bower, in some plenty, 1843. 



Leaves ovate, with distant serratures. Flovjers mostly 6 in a whorl, violet, cen- 

 tre of the lower lip white, the middle lobe with a dark purple spot. Calyx gib- 

 bous beneath at the base, its mouth guarded by dense white hairs directed 

 outwards, the rest of the tube very smooth and shining. Style a single incurved 

 point, not cleft as in most of this natural order. Seeds very small, brown, obo- 

 vate and pointed at the base, where there are two depressions, covered with minute 

 ifray meal which easily rubs off, otherwise quite glabrous. 



