p. 182. — Don's Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iv. p. 782.— Bab. Prim. I 1 !. Sart. 
P- »-• — Cow. FI. Guide, p. 50. — Beesley’s Hist. of Banb. p. 586. — Thymus Acinos t 
Linn Sp. PI. p. 826.— Engl. Bot. t. 411.— Curt. FI. Lond. t. — Huds. FI. Angl. 
(2nd ed.) p. 263. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iii. pt. x. p. 142. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 641 ; 
Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 109.— With. (7th edit.) v. iii. p. 721.— Lindl. Syn. p. 205.— 
Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 319.— Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 189.— Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 132.— 
Purt. Midi. FI. V. i. p. 280.— Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd edit.) p. 246.— Hook. FI. Scot, 
p. 185. — Rev G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 32. — FI. Devon, pp. 101 & 146. — 
"Winch's FI. of Northumb. and Durh. p. 40. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 171. — Perry’s 
PI. Varvic. Sel. p. 50. — Baines’ FI. of Yorksh. p. 84. — Gulliv. PI. of Banb. p. 12. — 
Otymum sylvestre , Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 675. f. 1. — (Jlinopodium minus , sive 
vulyare, Park. Theatr. Bot. p. 21. f. 1.— Small Wild Basil, Pet. H. Brit, 
t. 32. f. 10. 
Localities. — On dry bills, waste places, and in cultivated fields, especially on 
a sandy, gravelly, or chalky soil. Not uncommon in ENGLAND and WALES; 
more rare in SCOTLAND ; not found in IRELAND ! 
Annual. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root small, somewhat woody, fibrous. Stems from 6 inches to 
a foot long, spreading, ascending, oppositely branched from the 
base, bluntly 4-angled, clothed, all over, with short, soft, white, 
recurved hairs, which are most dense on two opposite sides, alter- 
nating between the joints. Leaves opposite, on short winged 
petioles, egg-shaped, acute, the upper ones somewhat approaching 
to spatulate, all bluntly serrated above the middle, their margins 
slightly revolute, and more or less ciliated ; dark green, and slightly 
hairy above, paler beneath, with hairy veins, and very minute, 
mealy glands. Flowers on short, simple, hairy pedicels, in distant, 
axillary, 6- to 8-flowered whorls, with very minute ciliated bracleas 
at their base. Calyx (fig. 1.) tubular, protuberant at the base on 
the under side, covered with very minute, resinous glands ; 13- 
ribbed, the ribs with a single row of short, white, slightly incurved 
bristles ; 2-lipped, the segments unequal, 3 upper ones shortest, 
triangular, recurved ; 2 lower ones awl-shaped, straighter or in- 
curved, all fringed on the margins ; mouth closed with an append- 
age of long white hairs, which also appear on the interior surface 
of the 3 upper segments, whilst that of the 2 lower ones is smooth. 
Corolla (fig. 2.) hairy, bluish-purple, upper lip short, blunt, emar- 
ginate; lower lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes rounded, entire, central 
one broader, with a shallow notch, and a roundish, dark-purple 
spot in front near the base ; throat white, with short, thick, white 
hairs within on the lower side. Seeds oblong, 3-sided, smooth. 
It is sometimes found with white flowers. 
Acinos vulgaris is a native of other parts of Europe besides 
Britain, as Sweden, Portugal, Naples, Greece, about Petersburgh, 
and of the Caucasus. 
The whole plant has a pleasant aromatic smell, but commonly 
much weaker than in Thymus Serpyllum, t. 127. 
