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ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS. DITTANY of CRETE. 
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SYNONYMA. Di&amnus creticus. Pharm. Geoff. it. 272. Dale. 
148. -Aifon. ii, 129. Lewis. 274. Edinb. New Difpenf. 183. 
Murray. ii. 139. Bergius. 529. Bauh. Pin. 222. Park. Theat. 
27. Ray. Hift. 537. Ger. Emac. 795. 
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Didynamia Gymnofpermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 726. 
Gen. Ch. Sirobilus tetragonus, fpicatus, calyces colligens. 
Sp. Cb. OQ. foliis inferioribus tomtentofis, fpicis nutantibus. 
- ROOT fibrous, perennial. Stalk about a foot in height, branched, 
downy, ligneous. Leaves ovate, blunt, oppofite, on fhort foorftalks, 
thick, covered with foft white hairs. Flowers purple, in fpikes. 
Braétez roundifh, {mooth, coloured, numerous, forming quadrangular 
fpikes. Calyx fmall, five-toothed, concealed by the braétez. Corolla 
monopetalous, confifting of a long tube, divided at the limb into two 
lips, of which the upper is ftraight, and enclofes the filaments: the 
under lip is cut into three obtufe lobes, of which the middle one is 
the largeft. Filaments two long and two fhort,. filiform, longer 
than the corolla, and furnifhed with fimple antherz. Germen divided 
into four parts. Style flender. Stigma bifid. Seeds four, of an 
irregular ovate fhape, and lodged at the bottom of the calyx. 
It flowers from June till Auguft. Dae: 
This plant, which is a native of the Ifland of Candia, appears 
from Turner to have been cultivated in Britain previous to the year 
1568, by Mr. Riche. The fpecimen here delineated grew in the 
Royal garden at Kew. 
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