HORMINUM pyrenaicum.
Pyrenean Horminum.
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h o r m i n u m . Calyx turbinatus striatus, fauce glaber, suçr
a dcntalus i n L bifidus Corolla labium supenus bilobum, mfenus
Irilobum. laciniis subæqualibus. S t a g n a i ,
ncque radiealia; caules simplices ; flores laxe verticillato-spicati.
H. pyrenaicum, foliis ovato-subrotundts crenato-dentat.s, verticdlis
inferioribus distantibus. -Pers. sÿ». 2. p. 132
Melissa pyrenaica. Willden sp. p l S. p. 148.
p 86. i. 183. Lam. ill. t. 515. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 692.
Root perennial. Leaves radical, tufted, spreading,
ovately rounded, rugged, unequally notched at the margins
S broad shallow notches, punctated with — rable
minute dots, smooth on both sides, upper side of a darkish
Seen paler underneath. Petioles furrowed on the upper
S e and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Stem erect,
nak^d from a foot to 18 inches in height, quadrangular,
S S n e lle d on each side, clothed with a short pubescence.
W Z e r s in whorls round the stem, distant oii the lower
oart dark blue, generally 5 or 6 in each whorl. Bractes
broad, cordate, acute, longitudinally " ^ / ^ l e n f '" c a Z t / Î i
ries short, of a dark bluish purple, pubescent. Calyx tnx
binate 2-lipped, striated with dark purple veins, spreading
at the mouffi, pubescent outside, and naked within : upper
lin sharply 3-toothed, the teeth spreading ; lower hp bifid,
the laciniæ taper-pointed. CoroUa tubular, 2- ippe , pubescent'
upper lip shortly 2-lobed, arched over, lower
one Slobed! the middle lobe largest: tube hairy inside.
Stamens 4, inserted in the tube, 2 long and 2 short : fila-
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