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long, the upper lip merely notched but the lower one three-lobed 
and spreading ; perfect stamens two, rising against the upper lip, 
with two rudimentary ones below. The four nutlets within the 
persistent calyx, very small. (Fig. 249.) 
Means of control 
Meadows infested with the plant should be cut before the seeds 
develop. Cultivation and enrichment of the soil, where prac- 
ticable, soon enables better plants to crowd out the weed. 
CALAMINT OR WILD BASIL 
Saturéja vulgaris, Fritsch 
(Clinopddium vulgare, L.) 
Other Haglish names: Field Basil, Stone Basil, Horse Thyme, Basil- 
weed. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds 
and by stolons. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed-time: August to October. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south- 
ward to West Virginia, and in the 
Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 
Habitat: Alluvial banks, brushy upland 
pastures, and borders of woods. 
Not even sheep care to eat Calamint, 
and if the plant had not such a prefer- 
ence for partial shade its stoloniferous 
habit would make it a bad weed. Stems 
erect, slim, square, hairy, ten to twenty 
inches tall, usually with a few branches 
but often simple. Leaves also hairy, 
variable in shape but mostly a long- 
pointed oval, sometimes toothed, some- 
times entire or wavy-edged, the upper 
ones sessile, the lower ones having short 
petioles. Flowers in dense axillary and se paid eee as 
terminal clusters, the latter nearly glob- wid Basil (Satureja vulga- 
ular; the subtending bracts bristly-hairy ris). x 4. 
