25S LABIAT.X. 



IG. THYMUS, Linn. Ihtmb. 



The ancient Greek name. 



Calyx 2-lipped, hairy in the throat, 13-ner7ed ; Vpper 

 lip 3-toothed, spreading ; lower 2-clefr: Corolla, short, 

 slightly 2-lipped ; vpper Up straight and Saltish, notched at 

 the apex ; lower spreading, equally 3-cleft, or the middle 

 lobe longest. Stamens 4, mostly exserted. — Low, mostly 

 prostrate and diffuse perennials, with s:nall entire veiny leaves, 

 and purplish or whitish flowers, 



T. SERPYLLrM, L. Garden Thyme. 



Stem procumbent; <eara»fJat, orate, obtuse, entire, short-pttioled, more or less 

 "iliate ; fir.wcrs approximate at the cud of Lb* br?r.ehcs in an obk ng bead. 



Old fields, cscayed from cultivation and s] arir.gly naturalized July. £(&% 

 spreading, decumLent, branched. Leaves green, mere or less hairy. Flowtrt 

 urple spotted. - 



IT. CLIXOPODIUM, Linn. Basil, 



'Jr. Kline, a Led, kn&jpocu, a foot: from the stalked r.nd fattened head o/" ffower?*. 



Calyx tubular, 13-nerved, nearly equal at the base, hairy 

 in the threat, more or less 2-lipped; upper Up 3-cleft, the 

 lower 2-cleft. Corolla inflated in the throat, distinctly 2- 

 lipped; vpper lip erect, entire; lower spreading, 3-partcd 

 STAMENS 4, ascending. — Perennials, v:ith many -flow > 

 capitate wkorls of purplish flcwers, and numerous linear* 

 shaped exterior tracts forming a sort of involucre. 



C. TULGARE, L. Wild Basil. 



"Erect, hairy; leaves CTate r?tioled. slightly tooihed; u-horls many- flowered, da- 

 Tressed-globose; calyx curved ; bracts subulate, as long as tbeeaiyx. 



Hills and old fields, naturalized. July. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, square, simple or* 

 ~] r.ringly branched, and, as well as the, whole plant clothed -with a- whitbh wc-j!», 

 L'iowtrs pale purple. 



18. MELISSA, Linn. Balm. 



ur. meuiso, a bee ; the flowers yielding an aluncancc of hcrcy. 



Calyx slightly gibbous at the base, 2-lipped; vjper 

 3-toothcd; lower 3-cleft, Corolla -with a rccuiTccl-rsc cud- 

 ing tule, 2-iipped ; vpper lip cuct, flattish ; lower Bpreadii g, 

 H-loled, the middle lobe mostly broader. Statins 4, 

 ascending; mostly approximate in pairs at the summit. — 

 l\rcrniioh, with few-ftcwcrcdylccse, one-sided clutters oj white 

 •r rrecm-eolorcd fcuers } and few matly crate tracts rcsan?- 

 ] 0& leaves. 





