SALVIA. — THYMUS. 
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1 —2 ft. high. Cor. pusple, small ; upper lip concave, laterally- 
compressed, straight except at the tip. Upper cal.-lip broad ; 
teeth small, converging. — Dry gravelly banks. P. V. VI. 
English Clary. E. S. I. 
2. ? S. clandestma (L.) ; 1. oblong cordate below sinuate-den- 
_ tate or incise-dentate stalked, iq)per I. oblong acute sessile 
scarcely cordate or clasping, bracts cordate acuminate, tube of 
the cor. exceeding the calyx.— St. a foot high. Cor. purple, 
small. Upper cal.-lip very broad, teeth very small. — Probably 
distinct from the preceding, but very difficult to characterise. 
Syme's plant (Sy. E. B. 1057) seems different.— Dry gravelly 
banks, rare. Lizard, Cornwall. Channel Isles. P. VII. E. 
3. S. praten'sis (L.) ; 1. oblong-ovate cordate below, crenate- 
dentate stalked, upper 1. small, sessile lanceolate acute, bracts 
cordate acuminate, cor. thrice as long as the calyx. — E. B. 153. 
— St. 1—2 ft. high. Known by its large flowers. — Cobham, 
Kent. Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire. P. VII. E. 
Tribe III, Satureinece. 
4. Oeig'anum Linn. Marjoram. 
1. 0. vulgdre (L.) ; 1. stalked broadly ovate, bracts ovate ex- 
ceeding the cal., heads of fl. ovoid or oblong panicled crowded. 
— E. B. 1143. — St. a foot high, corymbose. Bracts usually 
purple. L. often slightly toothed. Fl. purple. — Spikes some- 
times prismatic and oblong. 0. megasta"hyum (Link), Sy. 
E. B. 1046.— Dry uncultivated places. P. VIII. E. S. I. 
5. Thy'mus Linn, em., Benth. Thyme. 
1. T. Se7'pyl'lt(m(L.em.,FT.) ; st.2»'0strate cree/)mf7,l. all oblong 
or lanceolate narrowed into the flat fringed stalks, flowering 
shoots ascending, ^i.. capitate,upper cal.-lip with 3 short triangular 
teeth, lower of 2 subulate teeth, upper cor.-lvp oblong. — E, B. 
1514. — Forming a cushion with a fringe of prostrate barren 
shoots which in the next year produce erect fl.-shoots from 
their lower joinings and are prolonged at the end. L. narrowed 
below, their lower half and the stalk often fringed, rather con- 
spicuously veined beneath, often narrow. Nutlets globose, 
mealy. Cor. purple ; upper lip conspicuously notched. — 
[a northern form with broader 1. and capitate inflor. has been referred to 
v»r.prost)ato(Hornem).] — Dry heaths. P. VI. — VIII. E.S.I. 
