Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Balm, Reddish Bastard

BALM (Reddish Bastard), or Melittis melissophyllum, L. is an indigenous plant, growing wild in the West ol England, in woods and about hedges; it produces purple, reddish, and spotted flowers from May to July. See Withering, 539, and Curtis, pl. 6.