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long more or less attenuated into a short petiole flat fringed with 
long hairs, floral L similar, upper lip of the cor. emarginate ovate 
4-angular, upper lip of the cal. with short ovate-lanceolate teeth, 
lower with subulate ciliated teeth. — E. B. 1514. — L. sometimes 
nearly glabrous, at others densely hairy. St. procumbent, woody, 
bifariously hairy. — Dry heaths. P. VI. — VIII. Wild Tliyme. 
6. Calamintha Moench. 
* Fl. in whoi'ls of 2 dichotomous cymes. 
1. C. Nepeta (Clairv.) ; 1. ovate obtuse serrated pale beneath 
shortly stalked, cal. subcampanulate obscurely 2-lipped : teeth 
all nearly the same shape the upper ones slightly shorter, nuts 
roundish almost smooth, cymes dichotomous many-flowered. — 
22. B. 1414. St. 70. 3. Thymus Sm. Melissa Benth.— Nuts pale 
brown. — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VIII. Lesser Calamint. — E. 
2. C. officinalis (Moench) ; 1. broadly ovate rather acute 
slightly serrated green on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubu- 
lar ventricose in front distinctly 2-lipped, teeth of the upper lip 
triangular of the lower twice as long and subulate, nuts roundish 
covered with impressed dots, cymes scarcely dichotomous few- 
flowered. — E. B. 1676. St. 70. 2. Thymus Calamintha Sm. Me- 
lissa Cal. Benth. — Nuts dark brown. Larger in all its parts 
than the preceding. — Dry banks, rare-. P. VII. — IX. Common 
Calamint. E. I. 
** Whorls of 6 simple separate peduncles. ' 
3. C. Acinos (Clairv.) ; 1. ovate subserrate acute with revolute 
margins, cal. tubular gibbous below distinctly 2-lipped : upper 
with short triangular teeth lower with subulate teeth all con- 
verging in fruit. — E. B. 411. St. 70. 5. Thymus Sm. Acinos 
Hook. Melissa Benth. — St. 6 — Sin. long. — Dry gravelly places. 
A. ? VIII. Basil Thyme. 
*** Fl. in dense axillary whorls. Bracts forming a kind of 
involucre. 
4. C. Clinopodium (Spenn.) ; 1. ovate obtuse rounded below 
slightly crenate, whorls equal many-flowered, bracts setaceous as 
long as the calyx. — E. B. 1401. Clinopodium vuhjare Sm. Me- 
lissa Benth. — St. 1 — 1| foot high. Fl. purple in 2 or 3 dense 
whorls, the uppermost terminal. — Dry bushy places. P. VII. 
VIII. Wild Basil. 
Tribe IV. Melissinea. 
7- Melissa Linn. 
*1. M. officinalis (L.) ; 1. ovate crenate-serrate acute paler be- 
neath, cal. subcampanulate slightly ventricose in front distinctly 
