DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Meiittis. 72a 
globules; segments fringed, and the mouth closed with long hairs; 
teeth pointing upwards after the blossom falls off, the three upper equal, 
the two lower longer, and more pointed. Blossom tube with white club- 
shaped hairs ; upper lip lilac-coloured within ; lower lip pale, but marked 
with three round spots, and a few short streaks of a deeper hue. Summit 
one segment greatly longer than the other, and hooked. ( Blossom twice 
the length of the calyx. E.) 
Common Calamint. Baum. (Irish: Lussnabeag. Welsh: Erbincyf -- 
J'redin. T. Calamintha. Scop. Relh. Sm. Melissa Calamintha. Linn, 
Huds. With. Ed. 4. Purt. Calamentha. Riv. E.) Sides of roads and 
corn-fields. Dudley Castle. Near Tam worth Castle. Banks of the 
Avon, near Bristol. (About Dorking. Mr. Winch. On the higher parts 
of Fenmon parish, and Llangoed, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Road sides, 
Chudleigh, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones; and by the side of the road be¬ 
tween Shaldon and Mary-Church. E.) P. June—Aug.* 
MELIT'TIS/f* Calyx wider than the tube of the blossom: 
Bloss. upper lip flat, entire; lower lip trifid: Anthers 
each pair forming a cross. 
M. melissophyi/lum. 
(j!?. Bot. 577 . E.)— Jacq. Austr. 26—Kniph. 6— Riv. Mon. 21 —Lob. Obs. 
27T. 2, and Ic. i. 515. 1— Ger. Em,. 690. 3. f. 1— Park. 41. 4— Fuchs. 498 
— J. B. iii. 233. 2 —Trag. 12 —Clus. ii. 37. 2— Cam. Hort. 30— J. B. 
ib. 1. 
Calyx upright, three-cleft; the upper segment often marked with a small 
tooth on each side. Blossom white; tube twice as long as the calyx; 
border with four divisions, expanding, consisting of an upper lip roundish,, 
upright, entire ; and a lower lip with three clefts, the middlemost larger, 
flat, entire, purple. Anthers yellow, shorter than the blossom. Linn. Stem 
somewhat square, scored, hairy. Calyx hairy below, nearly smooth 
above, large, veined and tipped with purple. Woodw. Whole plant 
hairy. Leaves opposite, egg-spear-shaped, wrinkled, serrated, the teeth 
terminating in purplish glands. Fruit-stalks from the bosom of the leaves, 
two or x three together, not expanding altogether. Calyx , border on the 
upper side turned outwards like a spout, with a spear-shaped segment 
on each side, the lower lip cut off and finely serrated. Blossom white, 
stained with purple, except the middle segment of the lower lip, which 
is full purple edged with white. 
(On further examination of specimens from Devonshire and other parts, we 
much doubt the permanency of any specific distinction in South's 
M. grandiflora; (E. Bot. 636—Curt—Mill. Ill.—Ger. Em. 690. S’. f. 2 
—said to grow in most coppices of Devon and Cornwall; as the roail-side 
between Liskeard and Callingtdn, and a mile from Ashburton on the mad 
to Plymouth.) The character attempted to be established, of Calyx 
* All the plants of this genus yield a fragrant, aromatie odour, and an essential oil. 
(they are said to make agreeable tea, of somewhat tonic effect: and to them not improperly 
may be applied the encomium upon their congener : 
te And Balm that never ceases uttering sweets.” 
Or metaphorically, 
“ A tender smile, our sorrow’s only Balm” E.) 
+ (From ys’KiTTct, a bee; it being productive of honey, and grateful to that insect. E«) 
