Calamint, or the Melissa Calamintha, L. an indigenous species of the balm. Its botanical characters are: the foot-stalks axillary, forked, and generally shorter than the leaves; fibrous, perennial roots; upright, square, hairy, stalks, raising about a foot high ; roundish, indented, opposite leaves, and verticillate clusters of small, blueish flowers. It grows on the sides of roads and corn-fields, and is easily propagated by offsets.

The calamint, as well as the other species of the melissa, is now only ranked in medical practice among the mild corroborants. Infusions of the leaves in water have an agreeable smell, but a Weak taste: yet, when inspissated, they leave a considerable quantity of a bitterish extract. See Balm.