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The Ufeful Family Herbal. 233 
Sweet Marjoram. | 
| MAJORANA. : 
A Common Garden Plant, of no great Beauty, 
but kept for the fake of its Virtues and Ufe. © 
It is a Foot high. The Stalks are firm, upright, 
and a little hairy. The Leaves are broad, fhort, 
and fomewhat hairy, of a pale green Colour, and 
not indented. at the Edges, and of a fine Smell. 
At the Tops of the Branches, ftand a Kind of 
foft fcaly Heads, three Quarters of an Inch long, 
and from thefe grow the Flowers, which are {mall 
and white. The Seeds are very fmail; and the 
Root is fibrous. The whole Plant has a fine 
Smell. 
_ The whole Plant is to be ufed frefh; and it is 
beft taken by way of Infufion. It is good againft 
the Head-ach, and Dizzinefs, and all the inferior 
Order of nervous Complaints; but they talk idly. 
who call it a Remedy for Apoplexies. It gently 
promotes the Menfes, and opens all Obftructions. 
The dried Herb may be given for the fame Pur- 
pofe in Powder, but it does not fucceed fo well. 
Witp MarjoramM. 
| ORIGANUM= 
A Wild Plant, frequent about Way-fides, in 
a many Places, but fuperior to the other in 
Beauty and in Virtues. it very well deferves a 
ce, on both Accounts, in our Gardens. It 
_ Sfows a Foot and ahalf high. The Stalk is firm, 
very upright, a little hairy, and of a purplith 
The Leaves are broad and thort, of the Bignefs 
of one’s Thumb Nail, and of a dark green Co- 
lour ; two ftand at every Joint, and they st 
= : ong 
brown Colour, extremely regular in its Growth: — 
