. Botany of the southern states. In two parts. Part I. Structural and physiological botany and vegetable products. Part II. Descriptions of southern plants. Arranged on the natural system. Preceded by a Linnaean and a dichotomous analysis. Plants. 466 ORDER XCI. Genus VI.—THY'MUS. L. 13—1. (From thutnos, strength; the smell of thyme reviving persons.) Calyx bilabiate; many-nerved, throat hairy; upper lip three- toothed, spreading; inferior bifid, the awl-shaped division cili- ate ; throat villous. Corolla naked within, upper lip flat, lower three-lobed, middle lobe the longest. 1. T.
. Botany of the southern states. In two parts. Part I. Structural and physiological botany and vegetable products. Part II. Descriptions of southern plants. Arranged on the natural system. Preceded by a Linnaean and a dichotomous analysis. Plants. 466 ORDER XCI. Genus VI.—THY'MUS. L. 13—1. (From thutnos, strength; the smell of thyme reviving persons.) Calyx bilabiate; many-nerved, throat hairy; upper lip three- toothed, spreading; inferior bifid, the awl-shaped division cili- ate ; throat villous. Corolla naked within, upper lip flat, lower three-lobed, middle lobe the longest. 1. T. skrpyl'lum, (L.) Stem procumbent, canescent. Leaves small, with short petiole?, ovate, scabrous, flat. Upper lip of the calyx with short, lanceolate teeth, the lower subulate, ciliate.—Nearly white. Europe, Asia, and Africa. Thyme. Genus VIL—MICROME'RIA. 13—1. Calyx tubular, many-striae, 5-toothed, teeth nearly equal; throat often villous within. Corolla bilabiate ; upper lip erect, entire or emarginate, nearly flat; lower lip with nearly equal lobes, spreading. Stamens 4. 1. M. bracteola'ta, (Benth.) Stem pubescent, simple, slender. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, entire. Pedicels 3—5-flowered. Co- rolla minute.—Carolina. Hcdeoma bracteolata, Nutt. 2. M. Brown'ei, (Benth.) Stem glabrous, prostrate, branches filiform. Leaves roundish-ovate, obtuse, subcrenate, glabrous. Peduncles elon- gated. Calyx villous within.—Florida. Genus VIII.—CALAMIN'THA. Pursh. 13- (From kalos, beautiful, and mentha, mint.) Calyx tubular, ribbed, glabrous; throat closed with hair after flowering. Corolla pubescent, with the throat inflated, the up- per lip emarginate, erect, the lower one 3-parted, with the seg- ments obtuse, nearly equal. Stamens 4. 1. C. grandiflo'ra, (Pursh.) Stem slightly pubescent, terete. Leaves ovate, obtuse, slightly toothed, glabrous. Floicers in opposite, dichot- omous clusters. Stamens shorter than the corolla. Anthers crescent- shaped.—Rose-color, spo
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