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HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS. COiMMON HYSSOP. 
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SrNONTMJ, Hyffopus. Pi^^rr/?. Z^z>/^. Hyffopus Officinamm 
. casmlea five'.fpicata. Bauh. Pin. p, 21^, Hyffopus vul^a'ris. 
Park.Thcat, Hyffopus Arabum. Gerard. Emac. p. ^^^6. Hyffop 
garis fpicatus angufdfolius. J. Bauh. Jiifi. tii. p. 274. R 
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Ilijl.p. 516, Hyffopus foliis linearibus pundatis, verticillis in fpic; 
coiitinuatis. lial. Stirp. Helv. n. 249. yacqmn Flor.Aufl. t. 254 
yARiETATES funt, ot foliis glabris, fioribus ca^ruleis : & foliis glabrisj 
floribus rubris : 7 foliis glcibris, fioribus albis : ^ foliis pilofis* 
Alton s Hort. Kezv. 
Clafs Didynamla. Ord, Gymnofpermia. hin. Gen. Plant. 709, 
' E[[, Gen. Ch. Corollas,, labium inferius lacinula intermedia crenata* 
Stamina reda, diilantia. 
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Ep. Ch. H. fpicis fecundis, foliis lanceolatls. 
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THE root is perennial, knobbed, woody, and furnillied with many 
long fibres: the ftalk i^ ihrubby, fomewhat fquare, upright, much 
branched, and rifes about two feet *in height: the leaves are long 
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elliptical, entire, obtuiely pointed, of a deep green colour,, 
and ftand in pairs without footftaiks : the flowers are produced chiefly 
fide, in fhort verticillated fp 
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ches. and 
blue colour : the calyx is tubular, ftriated, and divided at the 
extremity into five pointed fegments : the corolla is monopetalous, 
and confiffs of a narrow tube, which divides at the limb into two 
expanded lips ; the uppermoil is fliort, roundiili, and .notched at the 
apex ; the lowermofi: is feparated into three fegments, of which the 
imdermofi: is very large, and inverfely heart-lhaped : the filaments are 
four, two long and two fliort, and crowned with fimple antheras : the 
%le is flender, and divided at the top into a double ftigma : the ger 
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men is feparated into four parts or feeds, which are lodged at the- 
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