474: Cunila Mariana. 
sided, very smooth, much branched, and of a reddish-yellow, rarely 
purplish colour. The branches are given off opposite, or nearly so, to 
each other. The leaves are small, punctated, sub-sessile, opposite, 
ovate, acute, round-cordate at base, sharply serrated, of a dry texture, 
and waved on the margin and disk. They are very glabrous above, 
and of a fine green colour, and bluish-green, on their under surface. 
Flowers numerous, in terminal and sometimes axillary dichotomous 
corymbs, situated on short, filiform, yellow or reddish peduncles. 
Calix striated. Corolla bluish-purple. Mr. Elliot describes it as white 
in the mountains of Carolina. Stamens and style exserted, twice the 
length of the corolla. Stigma bi-cleft, and didymous, The time of 
flowering is from July to the last of September. 
The dittany is always found on dry soils, in shady and _ hilly 
woods, and, in the southern states chiefly inhabits mountainous 
tracts of land. 
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, 
The earliest notice of the medicinal virtues of dittany, is in the 
work of Schoepf, who describes it as a stimulant and nervine, and 
as useful in intermittent fevers; in head-ache; and the expressed 
juice with milk as an application to the bites of serpents. At the 
time that Schoepf wrote, this country was more uncultivated than 
