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Serpyllum villofiim frutlcofius, llorlbur, dilute rubcndbus. Rav^vnot 



Hoary Mother of Tbymc, 



^ Serpyllum anguftifolium lilrfutum. C, B. 



Hairy Mother of Thyfne. See Hort. K 



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Clafs Didynamia. Ord, Gymnofpermia. Lin, Gen. Plant, 72^ 

 EJf, Gen, Ch. Calycis bilabiatl faux villis claufa. 



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Sp, Ch, X floribus capitatis, caullbus repentibus, folils planls obtufis 



bafi ciliatis. 



THE root IS perennial, woody, fibrous, and of a brown colour: 



tbe ftems are numerous, hard, fquare, branched, ^procumbent, and 

 rife from four inches .to a foot in height : the flowers are of a 

 purplifli colour, and ftand in whorls towards the top of the ftem and 

 branches : the leaves are ovate, entire, fmooth, befet with numerous 

 fmall glands, fringed with hairs towards the bafe, and ftand in pairs 

 upon very fhort footftalks : the calyx, the corolla, and fexual parts, 

 correfpond with thofe mentioned of the Thymus vulgaris. It 

 IS a native of Britain, affeding heaths and mountainous fituations, 

 flowering in July and Auguft. 



It is obferved 'by Mr. Curtis, that « few plants are fubjed to fo 



many varieties as the Wild Thyme. In its moft natural -ftate, when 

 found on dry expofed downs,'' it is fmall and procumbent : when 

 growing among furze or other plants, which afford it flielter, it runs 

 up With a flender ftalk to a foot or more in height, and aflumes an 

 appearance which might puzzle the young botanift." The fpecimen, 

 from which the drawing for the annexed plate was taken, ^-- 

 lituation which fubjedcd it to neither of thefe extremes^ but it has 

 been fo far fheltered as to participate more of the charader of the 



,V^ ' l^ v^^ })^^ ^ received opimon, that this and other aromatic herbs give a flavour to 

 f T\ r '^ '""^ ^''^^ ^'''^^^^* ^^^^fe Plants abound : but It Is well known that flieep 



relule thele aromatic^ v hen they have a choice of other pafturao;<;. Curt, See Account 



grew 



.of Sheep Walks in Spain.. Gent. Mag. 1764. 



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