Lettuce-Leaved Basil. Vil.
The leaves of this variety are large, pale-green, wrinkled and blistered like those of some kinds of Lettuce: whence the name. It resembles the foregoing varieties in taste and odor, and is used for the same purposes.
Bush Basil.
Ocymum minimum.
The Bush Basils are small, low-growing, branching plants; and are propagated and cultivated like the Common Sweet Basil.
Green Bush Basil.
Basilic fin vert. Vil.
Stem about eight inches high; leaves small, green, oval; flowers white, produced in whorls about the upper portion of the principal stalk and towards the extremities of the branches.
Purple Bush Basil.
Basilic fin violet. Vil.