722 DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Thymus. 
rent at the base. Blossoms about six in a whorl, bluish purple, middle 
segment slightly notched. 
Basil Thyme. Dry hills,, on chalk and gravel, Not unfrequent in Nor¬ 
folk and Kent. Mr. Woodward. On the side of Hamilton, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Robson. Wick Cliffs, Glostershire. Mr. Swayne. St. Vincent’s 
Rocks, Bristol. (Leckhampton Hill, two miles from Cheltenham. Rev. 
S. Dickenson. Fields near East Common wood, Hexham ; and Dorking, 
Surry. Mr. Winch. Grafton and Rolls Wood fields, Warwickshire. 
Purton. E.) A. June—Aug.* 
T. nep'eta. (Whorls many-flowered: E.) fruit-stalks axillary, forked, 
longer than the leaves: (leaves serrated: hairs in the mouth of 
the calyx prominent. E.) 
Riv. Mon. 47— Gies. 1. 14— Curt. —( E. Bot. 1414. E.)— -Blackw. 16? — 
Matth. 617— Dod. 98. 2—Lob. Ohs. 275. 1, and Ic. i. 513. 2—Ger. Em. 
687. 3—Park. 37. 4. a . 
(Strong-scented; smaller than T. Calamintha. E.) Leaves in opposite 
six, pairs, nearly sessile, egg-shaped. Fruit-stalks, subdivided in three, to 
each supporting a flower. Calyx coloured, ribbed, the outside having 
short hairs and shining glands, smooth within, but closed at the mouth 
with long hairs; the three upper teeth equal, the two lower rather 
longer, equal, and more pointed ; ribs fifteen. Blossom pale bluish pur¬ 
ple ; lower lip with white club-shaped bristles at the base; lateral seg¬ 
ments egg-shaped, the middle one kidney-shaped, toothed. 
In a garden the leaves become six times as large as in the natural soil, but 
the flowers not larger, and the fruit-stalks shorter than the leaves. 
Field Baum. (Lesser Calamint. T. Nepeta. Sm. Relh. Hook. Cala - 
mentha fol. incano. Riv. Melissa Nepeta. Linn. Curt. Willd. With. Ed. 4. 
E.) Sides of roads, corn-fields, and hedge banks. Norfolk, frequent. 
Mr. Woodward. (About Hastings Castle. Mr. Borrer. Near Tunbridge 
Wells. Mr. Forster. Hedge on the right, just below the Kennet Bell, 
Suffolk. Sir T. G. Cullum. In the old sandpits at the back of Charlton 
Church, Kent. Curtis. Common in Essex. South Normanton, Derby¬ 
shire. Pilkington. Denbigh Castle; and Craig near Denbigh. Mr. Grif¬ 
fith. Neighbourhood of Malton, Yorshire. Teesdale, in Bot. Guide. E.) 
P. Aug.t 
(T. calamin'tha. Whorls many-flowered: E.) fruit-stalks axillary, 
forked, as long as the leaves : (leaves slightly serrated: hairs of 
the calyx not prominent. E.) 
Kniph. 4— Ludw. 33— Riv. Mon. 46. 2—( E. Bot. 1676. E.)— Dod. 98. 1 — 
Lob. Obs. 274. 2, and Ic. i. 513. 1— Gcr. Em. 687. 3— Park. 36— H. Ox. 
xi. 21, row 2. 3— Pet. 34. 1— Blackiv. 166— Matth. 716— Ger. 552. 1. 
(Whole herbage downy. Stem erect, bushy. Leaves an inch long, marked 
with pellucid dots, paler underneath; sometimes entire, or nearly so. E.) 
Leaves in opposite pairs on leaf-stalks. Fruit-stalks three-forked, the 
lateral arms forked. Calyx with thirteen ribs, short hair, and shining 
* (Under an erroneous notion that this plant produces no seeds, the ancients applied to 
it the name axwo? (Memos'), sine semine, sterilis. E.) 
+ (A warm, pungent, medicinal plant, recommended in infusion as a stomachic and 
deobstruent. E.) Cassida viridis feeds upon it. 
