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59. LABIAT.E. 
Tribe III. Satureinece. 
4. Origanum Linn. 
1. 0. vulgare (L.) ; 1. stalked broadly ovate obtuse, bracts 
ovate longer than the cal., heads of tl. roundish panicled crowded. 
— E. B. 1143. St. 3. 13. — Bracts usually purple. L. often 
slightly toothed. — Diy uncultivated places. ' P. VIII. Marjoram. 
5. Thymus Linn. 
I. T. Serpyllum (L. ?); fl. whorled or capitate, 1. ovate or ob- 
long more or less attenuated into a short petiole flat fringed with 
long hairs, floral 1. similar, upper lip of the cor. emarginate ovate 
4-angular, upper lip of the cal. with short ovate-lanceolate lower 
nith subulate ciliated teeth. — E. B. 1514. T. Chamsediys Fries. 
— L. nearly glabrous, or densely hairy. St. jwocumbent, w'oody, 
bifariously haiiy. — Dry heaths. P. VI. — VIII. Wild Thyme. 
6. Calamintha Moench. 
* Fl. in whorls of 2 dichotomous cymes. 
1. C. Nepeta (Clairv.); 1. ovate serrated pale beneath shortly- 
stalked, cal. subcampanidate obscurely 2-lipped : teeth shortly 
ciliated all nearly the same shape the upper ones shghtly shorter, 
nuts roundish, cymes dichotomous many-flowered. — E. B. 1414. 
St. 70. 3. Thymus Sm. Melissa Benth. — Hairs in the throat of 
the cal. protruded. — Dry banks, rare. P. VII. VIII. Lesser 
Calamint. E. 
2. C. officinalis (Moench) ; 1. broadly ovate shghtly serrated 
green on both sides on longish stalks, cal. tubular ventricose in 
front distinctly 2-lipped ; teeth with long cilia those of the upper 
lip triangular of the low’er twice as long and subulate, nuts 
roundish, lower lip of the cor. with distant segments the middle 
one longest, cymes scarcely dichotomous few-flowered. — E. B. 
1676. Thymus Calamintha Sm. — Hairs in the throat of the cal. 
included. Larger in all its jiarts than the preceding. — Diy banks, 
rare. P. VII. — IX. Common Calamint. E. I. 
3. C. sylvatica (Bromf.) ; 1. broadly ovate sharply serrate, cal. 
tubidar distinctly 2-lipped : teeth with long cilia those of the 
u])per lip patent or reflexed, lower lip of the cor. with overlapping 
segments all nearly equally long, cymes many-flowered stalked. — 
E. B. S. 2897. — Hairs in the throat of the cal. few, included. 
Root shghtly creeping. L. large. Cymes mostly on long stalks. 
Cal. -teeth tinged with purple. Cor. very large, tube much pro- 
truded, middle lobe of lower hp short and broad.— Isle of Wight. 
P. VIII.— X. E. 
