93° 



DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSP. n 5 i, 1152. 



virginicus, Heads terminal : ftern erect : leaves lanceolate. 



Virginia, Moris, feci, 1.1. /. 7./. 8. Herm. parad, /. eiS. 



1 151. MELISSA. Calyx dry, fkttifh above; the 

 upper- lip fomewhat flat- topped : corol with the 

 upper -lip flightly vaulted, cloven; lower-lip with 

 the middle lobe heart-fhaped. Balm> or Baum. 



officinalis. Whorls reaching half way round: bractes oblong, pedi- 

 celled : leaves ovate, acute, ferrate. 

 South of Europe. Woodv. t. 147. Black™, t. 27. 

 Leaves ovate, rough, deeply ferrate: flowers whitifh, 



grandiflora. Peduncles axillary, 3 or 4-flowered : bra&es lanceolate, 

 feflile: leaves ovate, acute, fharply ferrate. 

 South of Europe. Curt. mag. t 208. Ger. emac, 687. 

 Leaves wrinkled .• flowers very large, red. 



pyren'aica. Stem naked : flowers in whorls: leaves oblong, obtufe, 

 toothed. 

 Alps, Jacq. hort. 2. /. 183. Magn. hort. t. 133. 

 Bractes ovate, pointed, entire : corol large, reddifli. 



cretica. Racemes terminal: peduncles folitary, very (hort. 

 Spain. Pluk. aim. 75. t. 163. /. 4? Calamintha. 

 Leaves ovate, with a few obtufe teeth : calyx brown. 



fruticosa. Branches tapering, wandlike: leaves downy underneath: 

 item fhrubby. 

 Spain, Leaves fmall, hoary, ovate, pointed. 



115a. DRACOCEPHALUM. Corol with an in- 

 flated throat; the upper-lip concave; lower-lip 

 3-cleft, the lateral divifion^ erect, middle-one 

 hanging down. Dragon 1 s -head. 



A. Flovsers in /pikes. 

 Flowers in crowded fpikes: leaves linear-lanceolate, fer- 

 rate. 

 Virginia. Curt, mag, t, 467. Morif, feci* II, t, \.f. I. 



Flowers in fpikes, rather remote: leaves obovate-lanceo- 

 late, denticulate upwards. 

 Carolina. Curt, mag tab. 214. 



canariense. Flowers in fpikes: leaves ternate; the lateral leafets a 

 little unequal at the bafe. Bahn of Gilead. 



Canaries. Monf flct, 11,/ji./ ult. Hort. Rom. 3. /. 27. 

 PLnt hairy at the joints : leaves foft, wrinkled, 3 or 5 together, 

 ovate, pointed, toothed ; corol fleih -colour with whit? lines. 



Virginia 

 num. 



denticular 

 turn. 



