386 144*. Clinopodium. 32. LABIATiE. PL ex. cor* 
Fields and hedges ; perennial ; August. 
Stem fulvous, hairy ; whirls terminal and axillary, many- 
flowered, peduncled ; peduncles branched. — Aromatic. 
XXVII. 145. MELISSA. Brunsfels. Bawm. 
Calyx tubular, rather naked or slightly hairy, spreading 
at top, mouth 2-lipped; upper lip flat, 3-toothed; lower 
2-lobed ; galea arched, half 2-cut ; lip long, 3-parted ; 
middle lobe largest, ovate; stamens 4, didynamous. — Flowers 
in whirls, axillary. 
Melissa officinalis. Shop bawm. 
Stem much branched ; leaves ovate, acute, serrate ; whirls 
halved, nearly sessile ; bractece oblong, pedicelled. 
Melissa, Ger. em. 689, 1. 
Melissa vulgaris, Park. 40. 
Melissa officinalis, Lin. S. P. 827. 
Balm. 
Cultivated; perennial; July. 
Leaves rather bald ; flowers reddish. — Plant aromatic ? 
infusion used 'in cephalic, cardiac, uterine, and stomachic 
affections, as also in stinking breath. 
XXVIII. 146. MELITTIS. Pliny. Bastard-bawm.. 
Calyx tubular, larger than the tube of the corolla, mouth 
naked, unequally 2 lipped ; upper lip not cut, sometimes 
2-cut ; lower lip 2-cut ; corolla lipped, tube cylindrical ; 
galea arched, cut ; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe reverse heart- 
shape, large, crenate ; anthers bent, cohering by pairs. — 
Flowers axillary, 6 in a whirl, not bracteated. 
Melittis grand flora . Large-flowered bastard-bawm. 
Stem simple; leaves petioled, ovate, serrate, hairy; whirls 
6 to 8 -flowered ; peduncles 1 -flowered. 
Melissa Fuchsii, Raii Syn. 242, 1. 
Melissa Fuchsii flore purpureo, Ger. em. 690, 3. 
Melissophyllum Fuchsii, Park. 41. 
Melissophyllum, Rivinus Mon. 21,2. 
Melittis Melissophyllum, Lin. S. P. 832. 
Woods and hedges ; perennial ; May and June. 
Root fibrous; stem hairy; flowers axillary; calyx co- 
loured, 3-lobed ; upper lobe not cut, pointed, nicked or 
deeply 2-cut, even on the same plant; corolla downy, flesh- 
colour; lip deep purple with a white border. 
