336 lxiii. labiate. [ Marrubium . 
2 — 3 feet high, downy, as well as the leaves, and whitish. Floral 
leaves bract-like. Flowers white, tinged and spotted with rose 
colour. Upper lip of the corolla emarginate, lower with the lateral 
lobes reflexed, the middle lobes broad, concave, crenate. Anthers 
reddish. Achenes smooth and glabrous. 
2. N. Glechdma Bentli. (Ground- Ivy) ; procumbent, leaves 
reniform crenate, whorls axillary stalked unilateral 3 — 4-flow- 
ered, teeth of the calyx ovate mucronate. Glechoma kederacea 
L. : E. B. t. 853. 
Hedges and waste places, frequent. 7) . 3 — 5. — Extensively 
creeping. Leaves stalked, downy ; floral ones similar to the others. 
Flowers large, blue, or very rarely pure white. Upper lip of the cor. 
bifid ; middle lobe of the lower one emarginate, plane, lateral lobes 
spreading. 
ff Stamens ascending, included within the tube of the corolla. 
(Gen. 16.) 
16. Makrubium Linn. White Ilorehound. 
Cal. with 10 ribs and 5 or 10 spreading teeth, the throat 
hairy. Cor. with the tube exserted ; upper lip erect ; lower 
one 3-lobed, middle lobe the largest, emarginate. The two 
anterior stamens the longest. Achenes flatly truncate at the 
end. — Name of doubtful origin; some say from a town so 
called in Italy. 
1. M. *vulgdre\j. (common white H.); everywhere hoarv with 
a white thick pubescence or woolliness, stem erect, leaves 
roundish-ovate toothed or crenate wrinkled, calyx with 10 
setaceous hooked teeth, upper-lip of the corolla oblong bifid. 
E. B. t. 410. 
Waste places and way-sides, but scared}' wild. Not common in 
England ; more rare in Scotland (as near Edinburgh), and in 
Ireland. If.. 8,9. — Stem 1 — 1£ ft. high, bushy. Flowers small, 
almost white, in crowded whorls. Smell aromatic ; flavour bitter. 
This plant has been much in use for coughs and asthma. 
** Calyx 2-lipped. The two anterior stamens the longest. 
(Gen. 17—20.) 
f Stamens distant , but converging under the upper lip of the 
corolla. (Gen. 17.) 
17. Calamxntha Mcench. Calamint. Basil-Thyme. 
Wild-Basil. 
Cal. 13-nerved, tubular: upper lip 3-, lower 2-fid, throat 
mostly hairy. Tube of the cor. straight; upper lip straight 
nearly plane ; lower one spreading, trifid. Anther- cells at length 
