55. LAMIACER. 545 
Thymus (Serpyllum) eu-Serpyllum, E. B. 3. 
Provinces 12345----10. And elsewhere? 
Syn. 810. Cyb. iii. 478. Both are widely distributed in Britain ; 
Borrer msc. Especially in mountainous districts; Eng. bot. Dry 
heaths ; Bab. man. 
Thymus (Serpyllum) Chamedrys, Fries. 
Provinces -2345----1011. And elsewhere? 
Syn. 810. Cyb. iii. 478. Dr. Boswell Syme writes, “ This is the 
only Thyme I have been able to meet with in the vicinity of 
London”; and most of the specimens in my own herbarium, 
brought together there from various parts of Britain, apparently 
belong to this segregate. But I find that the book-characters, 
taken as distinctive between the two, are occasionally cross- 
combined in nature. For instance, the stems or branches of 
Chamedrys may be seen variously “ procumbent, rooting, much- 
branched,” instead of “ascending, not rooting, slightly branched ”; 
—the printed words being very satisfactory distinctions between 
the two Thymes, if Nature would only act up to the rules of a 
Fries, a Babington, or a Boswell-Syme, instead of perversely going 
contrary to their printed text. 
Origanum virens, Link. & Hoffng. 
Province - 2. Isle of Wight; Dr. J. E. Gray. 
Ambiguity. <A pale variety of O. vulgare, and perhaps not quite 
the true O. virens of Link, although near to it. 
Origanum megastachyum, Link. 
Provinces - 5-14. Herefordshire and Edinburgh; E. B. 3. 
Alien? As a variety of O. vulgare, in Eng. bot. vil. 29. 
Origanum Onites, Linn. 
Province -- 8. Essex; Dale, in Huds. flo. ang. 
Error. Cyb. ii. 248. A misnomer of O. vulgare ? 
Calamintha (officinalis) menthifolia, Host. 
Provinces 1 to 12, probably. The usual form in England. 
Syn. 814. The distribution of C. officinalis, page 270, represents 
that of the present segregate. 
Calamintha (menthifolia) Briggsti, Syme E. B. 3. 
Provinces 12. South Devon; Briggs! Wight; Stratton. 
Syn. 814. A slight variety; E. C. report, 1867. 
Calamintha (officinalis) sylvatica, Bromf. 
Province - 2. Isle of Wight; Dr. Bromfield! : 
Syn. 814. Cyb. i. 245. This is the C. officinalis of some conti- 
nental botanists; our more usual form being the C. ascendens of 
Jordan, which may be taken as the same thing with the var. 
menthifolia treated above. 
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