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1514. — Forming a cushion with a fringe of prostrate barren 

 shoots which in the next year produce erect fl.-shoota from 

 their lower joinings and are prolonged at the end. L. narrowed 

 below, their lower half and the stalk often fringed, rather con- 

 spicuously veined beneath, often narrow. Nuts globose, mealy. 

 Cor. purple: upper lip conspicuously notched. — Dry heaths. 



2. T. Chama'drys (Fr.); stems alike difiuse ascending,!, all 

 broadly oblong with flat fringed stalks, fl. whorled or capitate, 

 upper cal.-lip with S triangular teeth, lower of 2 subulate 

 teeth, upper cor. -lip semicircular. — E. B. 8. 2992. — Forming a 

 tvift of flowering and barren shoots ; the st. of preceding year 

 ending in a fl.-shoot. L. less narrowed into the stalks than in 

 Sp. 1, usually only the stalk is fringed, less prominently veined 

 beneath, broad. Nuts roundish, subcompressed, with a basal 

 apiculus. Cor. purple; upper lip slightly and obscurely notched. 

 In the large forms the st. is stronger ; it is not so in Sp. 1. — 

 Heaths. P. VI.— VIII. E. ,S. 



6. Calamut'tha Moench. Calamint. 



* Fl. in whorls ofi forked cymes. 



1. C. Nep'eta (Clairv.) ; 1. ovate serrate pale beneath shortly 

 stalked, cal. rather beUshaped obscurely 2-lipped its teeth shortly 

 ciliate all nearly of the same shape the upper ones slightly 

 shorter and broader, cyme many-flowered its common stalk 

 about as long as the pritnary partial stalk. — Thymus L, E. B. 

 1414. — St. usually many from the crown of the root, 12 — 18 in. 

 high ; branches short, erect. Fl. purplish. Hairs in the throat 

 of the cal. protruded. — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VHI. Lesser 

 Calamint. E. 



2. C. offlcintUis (Moench ?^ ; 1. broadly ovate slightly serrate 

 green on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubular distinctly 2- 

 fipped its teeth with long cilia those of the upper lip triangular 

 and ascending, of the lower twice as long and subulate, lower 

 Up of the cor. with distant segments the middle one longest, 

 cyme scarcely forked few-flowered, fl. at an angle with the 

 pedicel — Thymus Oalamintha L. E. B. 1667. C. menthafolia 

 G. & G. — St. usually solitary, or few from the root, 1—2 ft. 

 high; branches long, ascending. Fl. purplish. Hairs in the 

 throat of the cal. included. Larger in all its parts than the 

 preceding. — a. C. menthifolia (Host) ; ped. of cyme J as long as 

 the primary partial stalk. — ^. C. ascendens (Jord.) ; ped. of 

 lower cymes as long as or longer than the primary partial stalk. 

 C. off. /3. Briggsii (Syme). Sy. E. B. 1051. — Dry bemks, rare. |3. 

 Devon. P. VH. — IX. Common Calamint. E, I. 



