380 LABIATE. [Calamintha. 



pale yellow resinous globules ; upper lip in 3 equal, acute, triangular, almost 

 recurved segments ; lower lip much longer than the upper, in 2 subulate slightly 

 incurFed segments, all of which are (ringed wilh long, stifiF, pectinate hairs ex- 

 tending into and across the mouth of the calyx when in seed, but not in general 

 projecting beyond the cavity. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy exter- 

 nally and sprinkled with resinous particles, wilh a narrow slender tube which is 

 villous within ; upper lip ovate, erect, emarginate, the edges a Utile reflexed, pur- 

 plish ; lower lip nearly plane, trifid, the 2 lateral lobes rounded, entire, tinged with 

 purple, the middle lobe longer, broader, roundish heart-shaped, entire or very 

 slightly emarginate, with a spot of bright purple in the centre, and several streaks 

 and blotches of the same colour between it and the throat of the corolla. Anthers 

 pinkish, the lobes very remote and united by a fleshy connectivum, not cohering 

 in pairs. Style glabrous; lower lobe of the stigma plane, grooved, much longer 

 than the upper. Seeds (nuts) minute, palish brown or partly whitish, roundish 

 ovoid, with one obtuse (inner) angle, roughish and thickly dotted with depressed 

 points. 



This plant, from its scent and general appearance, might more properly be 

 called Wild Basil than Chiropodium vulgare, which has much the aspect and 

 odour of that exotic herb. 



3. C. sylvatica. Nob. Wood Calamint. Stems somewhat 

 ascending lax with a few distant elongate nearly erect branches, 

 leaves ovate mostly acute sharply serrate, cymes many-flowered 

 stalked, lower lip of corolla with contiguous segments, middle 

 lobe scarcely longer than the two lateral broad and shallow, upper 

 calyx teeth erect or recurved, root partly creeping. Br. Fl. p. 

 323. C. officinalis, Reichenb. Fl. Germ. Excur. No. 2344 ? God- 

 son, Fl. de Lorr. ii. p. 208, descr. bona. M. Calamintha, Benih. 

 Lab. p. 388 (fide cl, auctore ipso) (sed non Linn.) Hoppe, Ect. 

 Plant, tab. 613 (nee. Linn.). Thymus Calamintha, Bertol. Fl. 

 Ital. vi. p. 323. 



In sheltered shady places, woods, thickets, and on bushy declivities ; very rare. 

 Fl. August — October. !(.. 



Profusely in woods on the western sides of a small valley between Apes down 

 and Rowledge farms, rather less than three miles W.S.W. of Newport: first dis- 

 covered by me as a species new to Britain, Aug. 29, 1843. 



Root much slenderer than in the last, woody, brownish, very copiously branched 

 and comosely fibrous, emitting, chiefly from the top, long, jointed and finally 

 woody suckers or rhizoms, that creep horizontally under ground, and, again 

 branching at various angles, give off anew flowering stems and rooting fibres as 

 in C Clinopodium, to which species the present closely approaches in habit and 

 structure. Stems several, from about 1 to 2 feet or more in height, erect, ascend- 

 ing or reclining, wavy, lax and slender, filled with pith, bluntly quadrangular, 

 not winged, more or less branched, but far less ramified than in C. oflicinalis, the 

 branches opposite, erect, and, as well as the main stem, hispid with long, white, 

 spreading or partly decurved, rigid and simple hairs, but less copiously than in C. 

 oflicinalis. Leaves opposite,* light green, paler beneath, but brighter or less gray 

 than in C. oflicinalis and considerably larger, 2 or 3 inches (excluding the petiole) 

 in length, more closely, acutely and deeply serrated, pointed or often somewhat 

 obtuse, slightly attenuated rather than rounded at base, though a few of the lower 

 leaves occasionally assume the ovato-rotundate form, with the shallow serratures 



* My friend N. B. Ward, Esq., gathered a specimen having all the leaves in 

 threes, a very unusual deviation from the normal structure in plants of this natu- 

 ral order. (Ward in lit).) 



