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58. labiate:. 
2. T. ovdtm (Mill.) ; stejns alike diffuse ascending, 1. all 
broadly oblong with flat fringed stalks, fi. whorled or capitate, 
upper cal.-lip with 3 triangular teeth, lower of 2 subulate teeth, 
upper cor.-lip semicircular. — T. Chamcedrys (Ft.). E. B. S. 
2992. — Forming a tuft of flowering and barren shoots ; the st. 
of preceding year ending in a fl.-shoot. L. less narrowed into the 
stalks than in Sp. 1, usually only the stalk is fringed, less promi- 
nently veined beneath, broad. Nutlets roundish, subcom- 
pressed, with a basal apiculus. Cor. purple ; upper lip slightly 
and obscurely notched. In the large forms the st. is stronger ; 
it is not so in Sp. 1.— Heaths. P. VI.— VIII. E. S. 1. 
6. Calamfntha Lam. em. Sjwnn. 1834 {Clinopodium 
L. em.. Groves). 
* Fl. in whorls of 2 forked cynies. 
1. C. Nepleta (Savi) ; 1. ovate serrate pale beneath shortly 
stalked, cal. rather bell-shaped obscurely 2-lipped its teeth 
shortly ciliate all nearly of the same shape the upper ones 
slightly shorter and broader, cyme many-fiowered its common 
stalk about as long as the primary partial stalk.- — Thymus L. 
E. B. 1414. — St. usually many from the crown of the root, 
12 — 18 in. high ; branches short, erect. Fl. purple. Hairs in 
the throat of the cal. protruded. — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. 
VIII. Lesser Calamint. E. 
2. C. ojficindlis (Moench em. Benth.) ; 1. broadly ovate 
slightly serrate green on both sides on longish stalks, cal. 
tubular distinctly 2-lipped its teeth ivith long cilia those of the 
upper lip triangular and ascending, of the lower twice as long 
and subulate, lower lip of the cor. with distant segments the 
middle one longest, cyme scarcely forked few-fiowered, 11. at 
an angle with the pedicel. E. B. 1676. — St. usually solitary, 
or few from the root, 1 — 2 ft. high : branches long, ascending. 
Fl. purplish. Hairs in the throat of the cal. included. Larger 
in all its parts than the preceding. — a. ascendens (Kchb.) ; ped. 
of cyme h as long as the primary partial stalk. — ;3. Briggsii 
(Syme excl. synon.) ; ped. of lower cymes as long as or 
longer than the primary partial stalk. Sy. E. B. 1051. — Diy 
banks, rare. /3. Devon. P. VII.— IX. Common Calamint. 
E. I. 
3. C. silvatica (Bromf.) ; 1. broadly ovate sharply serrate, 
cal. tubular distinctly 2-lipped, teeth with long cilia those 
of the upper lip patent or reflexed, lower lip of the cor. irith 
overlajyjnng segments all nearly equally long, cyme many- 
