LABIAT/E. 



659 



#., with slender stems, seldom 6 inches 

 long. Leaves of the same shape, but 

 nearly entire. Flowers shortly stalked, 

 scarcely above 3 lines long, of a pale 

 pink. 



In moist heaths or marshy sands, 

 chiefly in western Europe, more rare in 

 central Europe, extending however 

 across northern G-ermany into [Russia 

 and central Asia, but neither a high 

 northern, nor scarcely a Mediterranean 

 plant. In Britain, chiefly in western 

 England, Ireland, and south-western 

 Scotland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 790. 



X. MELITTIS MELITTIS. 

 A genus limited to a single species, differing from the long-flowered 

 Stacliys chiefly by its large calyx, usually 3-lobed, and by its axillary 

 flowers. 



1. Balm Melittis. Melittis Melissophyllum, Linn. (Fig. 791.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 577, and M. grandiflora, t. 636.) 



An erect and slightly hairy perennial ; 

 the stems nearly simple, 1 to 1^ feet 

 high. Leaves stalked, heart-shaped, 

 and coarsely toothed, about 2 inches 

 long. Flowers pink, or variegated with 

 white and purple, in axillary whorls of 

 2 to 6, shorter than the leaves. Calyx 

 of a thin texture, broadly campanulate, 

 with 3 broad, rounded lobes, of which 

 the upper one is sometimes 2- or 3- 

 toothed. Corolla with a broad tube, near 

 an inch long ; the upper lip thrown back 

 and slightly concave ; the lower lip large, 

 spreading, and 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in 

 pairs, projecting slightly from the tube. 



In woods and shady places, in tempe- 

 rate and southern Europe and western 

 Asia, not extending into northern Ger- 

 many. In Britain, confined to a few lo- 

 calities in southern and south-western England. Fl. summer. 



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