A Labiate plant (Mesona Wallichiana) grew on the ascent, whose bruised leaves smelt as strongly of patchouli, as do those of the plant producing that perfume, to which it is closely allied.
Coarse long grass, with bushes of Labiate and Composite plants, are the prevalent features.
Scented labiate plants are very frequent in the waste-ground of the plantations, and the natives are fond of wearing them in their armlets.
He would take much pleasure in pointing out to me the plants whose scented leaves are employed in the native perfumery, most of which are of the labiate order, and are to be commonly found in the waste ground of the plantations.
It only affords the fragrant aromatic principles common to most of the labiate plants.
The plant which stings has a round hairy stalk, and carries only a dull colourless bloom, whereas the others are labiate herbs with square stems, and conspicuous lipped flowers.
The cultivated Hyssop, now of frequent occurrence in the herb-bed, and a favourite plant there because of its fragrance, belongs to the labiate order, and possesses cordial qualities which give it rank as a Simple.
This herb (Ajuga reptans) is of the labiate order, bearing dark blue or purple flowers, whorled, and crowded into a spike.
This, and the wild Basil, belong to the Labiateorder of plants.
Like other labiate herbs [490] it is aromatic and fragrant, because containing a volatile, camphoraceous, essential oil.
The Prunella vulgaris is a distinct plant from the Self Heal, or Sanicle, and belongs to the labiate order of herbs.
The Lavender of our gardens, called also Lavender Spike, is a well-known sweet-smelling shrub, of the Labiate order.
This symmetrical arrangement is shown even in many tubular, as in the labiateand personate, corollæ.
In irregular corollæ the filaments are usually abortive; as in those of the orchideous, labiate and papilionaceous plants.
Defn: The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
Defn: A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O.
Defn: The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation.
Defn: A genus oflabiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).
Defn: Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O.
Jupp, a very faithful flower-lover, with some mutilated and unrecognizable labiate plant which I thought might be calamint, and how tactfully he suggested that my conjecture was "near enough.
The labiate purplish flowers are all at the top; each flower is set in the cup by a curve at the lesser end, like a crook; the leaves and stalk are slightly rough, and have an aromatic bitter perfume when crushed.
British labiate plant growing in woods, of great repute in ancient and medieval medicine, used to dye wool yellow.
If it forms a reddish-brown solution with liquor of potassa and a still darker one with oil of vitriol, or if it fulminates with iodine, it is adulterated with the oil of some labiate plant.
The oils of the other labiateplants fulminate much less powerfully with iodine.
The name of Labiateflower is given to a single-petaled flower which, beneath, is attenuated into a tube, and above is expanded into a lip, which is either single or double.
Draconidæ dwelt upon at length in the 86th and 87th paragraphs of the 'Queen of the Air,' where also their relation to the labiate group is touched upon.
Handsome labiate plants, flowering towards autumn, and preferring a cool soil and partially shaded situation.
The shape of its blooms shows it to be a member of the family of the labiate flowers, to which belongs also the meadow sage.
There are all gradations between labiate and regular corollas.
Two forms of thelabiate corolla have been designated, viz.
Palate, a projection of the lower lip of a labiatecorolla into the throat, as in Snapdragon, &c.
Betwixt these the pistil is situated, being bent towards one side as in labiate plants.
They are four as in labiate flowers, two small, and two longer ones near the other side.
Two Labiate shrubs, Plectranthus rugosus and Meriandra strobilifera, are particularly abundant on the slopes between Haripur and Sairi, and strongly mark the aridity of the climate.
When the upper lip of a labiate corolla is much arched, and the lips separated by a distinct gap, it is called ringent (fig.
The throat is the part where the tube and the labiate limb join.
All the plants here enumerated belong to the labiate family; which, though unfashionable even in Shenstone's days, have still their products favorably received in the very best society.
A genus of aromaticlabiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O.
A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
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