384? 142. Caiarnintha. 32. LABIATAE. PL ex. cor. 
XXIV. 142. CALAMINTHA. Dioscorides. Calamint. 
Calyx streaked, dry, flattish above ; mouth closed with 
hairs ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip even, 3-toothed ; lower lip 
2-cut ; corolla lipped ; mouth rather inflated ; galea nicked ; 
lip 3-parted ; middle lobe sliglftly nicked or crenulated ; 
stamens 4, didynamous. — Flowers in whirls, axillary; whirls 
peduncled; peduncle# forked. 
1. Caiarnintha vulgaris . Common calamint . 
Stem weak, hirsute ; leaves ovate, blunt, serrate, hirsute, 
punctured ; peduncles axillary, many-flowered, forked, co- 
rymbose ; lower lobes of the calyx villous, twice as long as 
the upper lobes. 
Caiarnintha vulgaris, Raii Syn. 243, 1 ; Park. 36. 
Caiarnintha vulgaris officinarum, Ger . cm. 687. 
Calamentha, Rivinus Mon. 46. 
Melissa Caiarnintha, Lin. S. P. 827. 
Thymus Caiarnintha, Scop. Cam. 733. 
Caiarnintha montana, Lamarck FI. Fr. 391. 
Thymus Calamentha, Withering Bot. Arr. 664. 
Caiarnintha officinalis, Mcench. Meth . 409. 
Roads and waysides ; perennial ; July and August. 
Stem upright : leaves petioled, veined, acutely serrated, 
pale beneath ; hairs at the mouth of the calyx enclosed ; 
corolla twice as long as the calyx, light violet; galea arched; 
odour aromatic, pleasant. 
2. Caiarnintha trichotoma . Three-forked calamint * 
Stem ascending, rather hirsute ; leaves ovate, blunt, 
slightly serrate, rather bald ; peduncles axillary, many- 
flowered, forked, corymbose ; teeth of the calyx nearly equal, 
Caiarnintha odore pulegii, Raii Syn. 243, 2; Ger. em. 687,4. 
Caiarnintha minor incana, Park. 37. 
Caiarnintha folio incano, Rivinus Men. 47. 
Melissa Nepeta, Lin. S. P. 828. 
Thymus Nepeta, Smith FI. Brit. 612. 
Caiarnintha parviflora, Lamarck Ft. Fr. 396. 
Caiarnintha trichotoma, Mcench. Meth. 409. 
Field calamint. 
Hedges and waysides ; perennial; August. 
Stem rather woody ; leaves broadly and bluntly serrated; 
2 upper teeth of the calyx upright or recurved; hairs at the 
mouth prominent, white. 
