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THYMUS Chamædrys.
Germander Thyme.
DIDYNAMIA Gymnospermia.
Gen. Char. Flowers whorled. Calyx 2-lipped,
10-13-veined ; throat hairy. Corolla 2-lipped ;
upper lip straight, nearly flat ; lower lip patent,
trifid. Stamens distant, exserted, parallel ; anthers
distant ; cells nearly parallel, afterwards
diverging ; connective subtriangular.
Spec. Char. Stems alike, diffuse, ascending. Leaves
broadly oblong, with flat fringed stalks. Flowers
whorled or capitate. Upper lip of calyx with
three triangular teeth ; lower of two subulate
teeth. Upper lip of corolla semicircular.
Syn. Thymus Chamædrys. Fries, Nov. FI. Suec.
ed. 1. 35 ; ed. 2. 197 ; Summa Veg. Scand. 197 ;
Herb. Norm. Cent. 5. no. 6. Reichenb. FI. Excurs.
312 ; FI. Exsic. no. 188 and 189. Gren. et Godr.
Fl. de Fr. v. 2. 658. Bor. Fl. du Centre de la Fr.
ed. 3. 517. FI. Dan. t. 2237. Bab. in Ann. Nat.
Hist. ser. 2. v. 11. 431 ; Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 256.
W E have much pleasure in publishing a figure of the
true Thymus Chamcedrys of Fries, but, unfortunately, cannot
refer to our tab. 1514 as an equally good representation of
the T. Serpyllum. Indeed, it is quite possible that that figure,
published in 1805, may consist of a mixture of the two
species. It represents the continuation of the prostrate stem
of the preceding year as terminating in flowers, as I am
taught by experience to believe is never the case*in true
T. Serpyllum; and there are other questionable points in it.
In T. Serpyllum there are two kinds of shoots produced each
year—one quite prostrate, rooting, perennial, and without
flowers; the other erect, annual, bearing the flowers, and
springing from the buds produced in the axils of the leaves of