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Tribe III. Satureiinee. 
4. Ornicanum Linn. 
1. O. vulgare (L.); 1. stalked broadly ovate obtuse, bracts 
ovate longer than the cal., heads of fl. roundish panicled crowded. 
—E. B. 1143. St. 3. 13.—Bracts usually purple. L. often 
slightly toothed.—Dry uncultivated places. P. VIII. Marjoram. 
5. Taymus Linn. 
1. T. Chamedrys (Fr.); st. bifariously hairy, fl. whorled or 
capitate, 1. ovate or oblong more or less attenuated into a short 
petiole flat fringed with long hairs, floral 1. similar, upper lip of 
the cor. ovate 4-angular, upper lip of the cal. with short ovate- 
lanceolate lower with subulate ciliated teeth.—T. Serpyllum Sm., 
E. B. 1514.—L. nearly glabrous, or densely hairy. St. procum- 
bent, woody.—[The true T. Serpyllum (L.), Fr. H. N. v. 7, ap- 
pears to be different having uniformly hairy prostrate creeping 
st. distinct from the ascending capitate fl.-stems. It has not 
been seen in Britain.|—Dry heaths. P. VI—VIII. Wild 
Thyme. 
6. CatamintHa Moench. 
* Fl. in whorls of 2 dichotomous cymes. 
1. C. Nepeta (Clairv.); 1. ovate serrated pale beneath shortly 
stalked, cal. subcampanulate obscurely 2-lipped its teeth shortly 
ciliated all nearly the same shape the upper ones slightly shorter, 
cymes dichotomous many-flowered, common stalk about as long 
as the primary partial stalk.— FE. B. 1414, St. 70.3. Thymus 
Sm.—Hairs in the throat of the cal. protruded.—Dry banks, rare. 
P. VII. VIII. Lesser Calamint. E. 
2. C. officinalis (Moench ?); 1. broadly ovate slightly serrated 
gxeen on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubular ventricose in 
front distinctly 2-lipped its teeth with long cilia those of the upper 
lip triangular and ascending of the lower twice as long and subu- 
late, lower lip of the cor. with distant segments the middle one 
longest, cymes scarcely dichotomous few-flowered, common stalk 
not 4 as long as the primary partial stalk.— Thymus Calamintha 
Sm., EZ. B.1676. C. ascendens Jord.—Hairs in the throat of the 
cal. included. Larger in all its parts than the preceding. —D 
banks, rare. P. VII.--IX. Common Calamint. E. I. 
3. C. sylvatica (Bromf.); 1. broadly ovate sharply serrate, cal. 
tubular distinctly 2-lpped, teeth with long cilia those of the 
upper lip patent or reflexed, lower lip of the cor. with overlapping 
