GENUS 20. MINT FAMILY. 139 
Clinopodium Calamintha (L.) Kuntze, the cala- 
mint of the Old World, with larger leaves and flow- 
ers, admitted into our first edition, is not known in 
the wild state within our area. 
3. Clinopodium Acinos (L.) Kuntze. 
Basil-thyme. Basil Balm. Fig. 3654. 
Thymus Acinos L. Sp. Pl. 591. 1753. 
Melissa Acinos Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 389. 1834. 
Cal. Acinos Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 1848. 
Clin. Acinos Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 513. 1891. 
Annual, pubescent; stems branched from the 
base, very slender, 6-8’ high. Leaves oblong 
or ovate-oblong, petioled, acutish at both ends 
or the lower obtuse, crenulate or entire, 4-8” 
long; flowers about 6 in the axils, the clusters 
sessile; bracts shorter than the pedicels; calyx 
gibbous on the lower side, rough-hairy, longer - 
than its pedicel, contracted at the throat, its subu- 
late teeth somewhat unequal in length; corolla 
purplish, 14-2 times as long as the calyx. 
In waste places, Ontario to Massachusetts and 
New Jersey. Adventive or naturalized from Europe. 
Mother-of-thyme. Polly mountain. May-Aug. 
4. Clinopodium glabrum (Nutt.) Kuntze. 
Low Calamint or Bed’s-foot. Fig. 3655. 
Hedeoma glabra Nutt. Gen. 1: 16, 1818. 
Cal. Nuttallii Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 1848. 
Calamintha glabella var. Nuttallii A. Gray, Man. 
Ed. 2, 9097. 1856. 
Clin. glabrum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 515. 1891. 
Perennial, glabrous, stoloniferous; stem very 
slender, at length much branched, erect or as- 
cending, 4’-12’ high. Leaves of the flowering 
branches linear, entire, very short-petioled or 
sessile, mostly obtuse at the apex, obscurely 
veined, 4-9” long, 3’-1 wide, the margins 
slightly revolute; lower leaves and those of the 
stolons shorter and broader, distinctly petioled ; 
flowers 1-4 in the axils; bracts minute; pedicels 
filiform, mostly longer than the calyx; calyx not 
gibbous, its throat pubescent in a ring within, 
its lower teeth somewhat longer than the upper; 
corolla purple, about 4” long. 
On rocks and banks, Ontario to western New 
York, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas and 
Texas. May—Aug. ; 
foot. Fig. 3656. 
Cunila glabella Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 13. 1803. 
Calamintha glabella Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 
1848. 
Clin, glabellum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 515. 1891. 
Perennial, stoloniferous, glabrous; stems 
weak, spreading or decumbent, at length freely 
branched, elongated, slender, 8’-2° long. Leaves 
membranous, oblong, short-petioled, obtuse or 
the uppermost subacute at the apex, narrowed 
to a cuneate base, distinctly serrate with low 
teeth, 1’-2’ long, 2-8” wide, the lowest and 
those of the stolons sometimes proportionately 
broader and shorter; axils 2-5-flowered; pedi- 
cels filiform, commenly twice as long as the 
calyx; bracts minute; calyx not gibbous, its 
throat pubescent in a ring within, its teeth 
nearly equal; corolla purplish, 6-7” long. 
On river banks, Indiana to Kentucky, Tennes- 
see and Arkansas. May-July. 
