HORMPNUM PYRENAICUM. 
PYRENEAN HORMINEM. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. G Y M NOSPERM I A . 
Natural Order. 
LABIATAi. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Pyrenees. 
1 foot. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1820. 
No. 320. 
The word Horminum, from the Greek hormia, 
to excite, wa.s adopted in allusion to the medical 
qualities of the plant to which it was originally given. 
Pyrenaicum, from its native situation. 
The Horminum pyrenaicum is of compact growth, 
never becoming intrusive, nor requiring much atten- 
tion. In a northern shady situation, we have ob- 
served that the plant will live, but it will either not 
flower at all, or it will do so very imperfectly. It 
delights in a rather strong, fresh, loamy soil, that 
is fidly exposed to the east and south, and not very 
dry. It is said to perfect its seeds, and that if these 
be sown as soon as ripe, they will produce plants 
which will flower in the following summer. We 
have never observed that it has produced seeds with 
us, but this is less important, inasmuch as a division 
of its offsets will generally yield sufficient increase. 
As it is a plant which flowers early in the summer, it 
may be most advantageously divided in the autumn. 
It will bear separation at almost any time of the year ; 
but if divided in the autumn, it will become es- 
tablished by the spring, and finer flowers will be 
the result. 
Sweet’s FI. Card. 252. 
