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LABIATE. 



CUNILA. 



1. Cunila Mariana, Linn. (Plate LXXVI.) Common Dittany. 



Herbaceous ; leaves ovate, acute, sessile, rounded or cordate at the base ; cymules axillary 

 and terminal, pedunculate, loosely corymbose. — Linn. sp. (ed. 2.) I. p. 30; Michx.fi. 1. p. 13; 

 Pursh, fl. 2. p. 406 ; Ell. sk. I. p. 27 ; Bart. veg. mat. med. t. 42 ; Torr. Jl. 1. p. 22 ; 

 Beck, hot. p. 277 ; Darlingt. fi. Cest. p. 351 ; Benth. Lab. p. 360. Satureja origanoides, 

 Linn. sp. ed. 1. p. 568. Ziziphora Mariana, Ro?m. <§• Schult. syst. 1. p. 208. 



Perennial. Stems 8-12 inches high (often several together), with numerous opposite 

 spreading branches, nearly smooth, purplish. Leaves about an inch long, dotted with little 

 glands ; some of the dots larger and brownish ; others (more numerous) minute and pellucid. 

 Flowers in numerous fasciculate cymules in the upper part and extremity of the branches. 

 Calyx strongly 10-striate, smooth externally, sprinkled with resinous dols ; teeth lanceolate, 

 acute : throat closed with copious white hairs. Corolla rose-colored, pubescent ; middle lobe 

 of the lower lip longer than the others. 



Dry hilly places ; southern part of the State. July - September. A popular remedy in 

 fevers and colds, being an aromatic diaphoretic. 



Tribe IV. MELISSINEJE. Benth. 



Calyx 13- or rarely 10-?ierved, 2-lipped: upper lip S-toothed ; lower 2-cleft. Corolla 2- 

 lipped : upper lip straight, entire, flatfish, emarginate or slightly bifid ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed ; the lobes fiat ; middle one often broader. Stamens 4, or sometimes only 2, 

 ascending . 



10. HEDEOMA. Pers. syn. 2. p. 134 ; Benth. Lab. p. 365. pennyroyal. 



[ From the Greek, hcdys, sweet, and osrne, odor ; some of the species being fragrant.] 



Calyx ovoid-tabular, gibbous on the underside near the base, 2-lipped : upper lip 3-toothed ; 

 the lower 2 cleft. Corolla 2-lipped : upper lip erect, flat ; the lower spreading, of 3 equal 

 lobes. Fertile stamens 2, ascending, about as long as the corolla : cells of the anther 

 diverging : sterile stamens rudimentary or wanting. — Herbs or suffruticose plants. Cymules 

 axillary, loofe, few-flowered. Flowers small. 



1. Hedeoma pulegioides, Pers. Pennyroyal. 



Annual ; stein erect, branching, pubescent ; leaves oblong-ovate, somewhat serrate, petiolate, 

 narrowed at the base ; whorls few-flowered ; upper lip of the calyx of three ovate-lanceolate 

 teeth ; corolla about as long as the calyx. — Pers. I. c. ; Pursh, fi. 2. p. 414 ; Ell. sk. 1. 

 p. 28 ; Niitt. gen. 1. p. 16 ; Ton: fi. 1. p. 24 ; Beck, bot. p. 280 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. 

 p. 350 ; Benth. Lab. p. 366. Melissa pulegioides, Linn. sp. 2. p. 593. Cunila pulegioides, 

 Linn. sp. (ed. 2.) 1. p. 30 ; Michx. fl. 1. p. 13 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 10 ; Bart. veg. mat. 

 med. t. 41. Ziziphora pulegioides, Ream. Schult. syst. 1. p. 209. 



