Melittis Melissophyllum. astard-Balm, 
MELITTIS. Linn. Gen. PI. Didynamia GymnospermD 
Calyx tubo corollas amplior, hllce labium fuperius plarium ; labium 
inferius crenatum. Ant herd uciatse. 
Rati Syn. Gen. 24. Suffrutices et Herbaerticillat./£. 
MELITTIS Me l iff 0 phyllum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 3. p. 832. SyVegetab. ed. 14. Mu'rr. p. 544; Scop ; 
Cam. ed. 2. p. 421. Hudf. Fl.ngl. ed. 2. p. 264. Common Baftard- 
Balm. Jacq. F/. Aujir. v. 1. ph. tab. 26. 
MELISSOPHYLLUM. Hall. Hijl. n . 244. 
LAMIUM montanunl Meliffas folio* Bank. Pin. p. 23 1. 
MELISSA Fuchfii. Hort. Eyji. vern. Ord. 6. fol. 7. f 3. re albo et flore purpureo. Ballard 
Baumfe with white and with purple flowers, r. emac. p. 690. f 3. 3. Baulm-leav’d 
Archangel, Baftard-Baulm. Rail Syn. ed. 3. ^42. 
MELISSOPHYLLUM Fuchfii. Unpleafant Baulme. Parkfo. p. 41. f 4* 
LAMIUM pannonicum verficolore flore. Cluf. rar. pi. p. xxij. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. 
CAULES fefquipedales et ultra, ere&i, tetragoni* hir- 
' futi, ad bafin ramis paucis inftru&i. 
FOLIA oppofita, petiolata, ovata, fubacuta, inasqua- 
liter et obtufiufcule ferrata, villofiufcula, ru- 
gofa, petioli canaliculati, hirfuti, ball con- 
nati. 
FLORES magni, fpeciofi, odorati, pedunculati, ver- 
ticillati, fubfecundi, verticillis dimidiatis, fub- 
fex floris. 
PEDUNCULI teretes, hirfutuli, longitudine petio- 
lorum. 
CA-L.YX ; Perianthium monophyllum, inflato-ven- 
tricofum, bilabiatum, venofum, glabrum, 
venis hirfutulis, diviluris labiorum perquam 
inconflantibus, Jig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, ringens, villofula, alba; Tubus 
calyce longior, multoque anguftior, Labium 
fuperius eretlum, fubrotundum, integrum, 
inferius trifidum, laciniis obtufis, intermedia 
majori, fubrotundo, purpureo, margine cre- 
nulato, albo, jig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta 4, alba, villofa, corolla 
breviora; Anther. -e flavefcentes, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen obtufum, quadrifidum, villo- 1 
fum ; Stylus filiformis, longitudine fta- 1 
minum; Stigma, bifidum, acutum, jig. 4. 1 
SEMINA 4 in fundo calycis, nigricantia, jig. 5. * 
) ROOT peremi, fibrous. 
’ STALKS a ft and a half high, or more, upright* 
fqua: ftrongly hair’d, furnifhed at the bafe 
with few branches. 
LEAVES op'fite. Handing on footftalks, ovate* 
formhat pointed, unevenly and bluntly 
ferrsd, flightly villous, wrinkled* footftalks 
con at above, hirfute, united at the bafe. 
FLOWERS :ge, fhewy, odoriferous. Handing on 
footilks, growing chiefly to one fide, in half 
whcs about fix flowers together. 
FLOWER-SALKS round, fomewhat hairy, the 
len£ of the leaf-ftalks. 
CALYX: a jrianthium of one leaf, fomewhat 
infted and bellying out, two-lip’d, veiny* 
fmah, except the veins which are fome- 
whc hairy, the divifions of the lips altoge- 
themconftant, jig. 1. 
COROLL A lonopetalous, ringent, flightly villous* 
whi ; Tube longer than the calyx and much 
naower, upper lip erefl, roundifh, entire, 
lovr lip trifid, fegments obtufe, the middle 
on< largeft, purple, the margin finely 
noihed, and white, jig. 2. 
STAMINA four Filaments, white, villous, fliorter 
tha the corolla; Anthers yellowifh, fig. o. 
PISTILLUI : Germen obtufe, quadrifid, villous; 
Stle filiform, the length of the flamina ; 
Sigma bifid and pointed, jig. 4. 
SEEDS foti in the bottom of the calyx, of a blackifh 
. § comr, jig. 5. 
moTc' j Plant ?° mm0n “? P arts Ecopp. has hitherto been difcovered in the 
wh[ 4 rounlL P it lrolf „ Are 8 ? 0 ' n “a 7 ' P^ooWy Pombrokelhir, Devonlhire, and Hampfliire, in forne of 
• l: , f-nmnar, ^ abundance ; Dr. Wavell has obfered it in various places about Barnftaple 2 
— CHreHESTEa^F^ofR n t &0t ° F ? hed « e ^ the - Md fide “oar the hofpitable manfioTof 
or fituaLs fomewhat ftady ! “ ‘ tw0 *om that town It is moft commonly found in woods. 
tmfeeli^accorclinffhr^^e^nowi^^V^^^nft^F 11 ^ 1 Ihould btfuffered to blolfom in its native woods, 
rnimmrnmwm 
whole olfaaor.es cannot be ca°Ied”n >Xon ^ ^ the S eneral acute " e(s 
are not fo large as thofe of our plant COrrc, P ondm g m °re with Jacquin’s figure, the bloffoms of which 
wid, r r n MS S b^^fe^r re is mK ” honey recrct ' ed; hen “ the pi - ^ ds 
Tfio cruciform appearance of the Anthera: ought not to form any part of the generic charafler heino- a. 
Frofelfor Jacqdin has obferved common tomaSy of the didynamous plants 8 ’ S ’ 35 
provided k perennial ; planted in almort any foil, 
may be readily propagated by pardng X ^ ^ “* 
