. Flowers of the field. Botany. LABIATE FAMILY 387 whorls of 5 or 6, with the calyx 2-lipped, the lower lip bulged at the base, and the corolla spotted with white and darker ]jurple.— Dry places ; frequent.—Fl. July, August. Arinual. 3. C. Nepeta (Lesser Calamint).—Slems usually many, 12—18 in. high, with short, erect branches; leaves ovate, serrate, shortly stalked, pale beneath ; flowers light purple, in'forked cymes ; calyx with short hairs on its teeth.—Dry banks ; rare.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 4. C. CaZaraiH/Aa (Common Calamint). A larger, erect, bushy plant, with downy, usually soli
. Flowers of the field. Botany. LABIATE FAMILY 387 whorls of 5 or 6, with the calyx 2-lipped, the lower lip bulged at the base, and the corolla spotted with white and darker ]jurple.— Dry places ; frequent.—Fl. July, August. Arinual. 3. C. Nepeta (Lesser Calamint).—Slems usually many, 12—18 in. high, with short, erect branches; leaves ovate, serrate, shortly stalked, pale beneath ; flowers light purple, in'forked cymes ; calyx with short hairs on its teeth.—Dry banks ; rare.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 4. C. CaZaraiH/Aa (Common Calamint). A larger, erect, bushy plant, with downy, usually solitary stem; long, ascending branches; leaves on rather long stalks, broadly ovate, slightly serrate, green on both sides, downy ; flowers light purple, in forked, axillary, few-flowered cymes with small pointed bracts in the forks; calyx 2-lipped, with long hairs on its teeth, the teeth of the upper hp straight ; lower lip of corolla with its middle lobe longest.—Dry waste places ; not uncom- mon.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 5. C. grandiflora^ an allied species, with larger, sharply serrate leaves and large flowers with the 3 upper teeth of the calyx reflexed, and the 3 lobes of tlie lower lip of the corolla equal, occurs on dry banks in Hampshire and South Devon.—Fl. August—October. Peren- nial. *6. MELfssA (Pialm), a closely allied genus, differing from CUnopodium mainly in its curved corolla-tube, is represented in England only by the one species, M. officinalis, a hairy plant with numerous erect stems, i—2 feet high ; stalked, ovate, crenate leaves, wrinkled above, paler beneath ; and white flowers in shortly-stalked, one- sided, axillary, few-flowered whorls.—It occuts as an escape only, in the south. (Name from the Greek melissd, a bee, bees visiting the flowers for honey.)—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 7. SAlvia (Sage).—Herbs or shrubs with calyx and corolla both 2-lipped, the latter gaping ; stamens 2, with short filaments bear- ing a long ver
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