106 DTDYNAMIA-GYMNOSPERMIA. Origanum. 



3 deep segments, the middle one very broad, notched. 

 Filam. all directed to the upper lip, cylindrical, converg- 

 ing, shorter than the corolla. Anth. two-lobed, each 

 pair meeting so as to form a cross. Germ, four-lobed, 

 small. Sti/le thread-shaped, equal to the stamens. Stig- 

 ma in 2 pointed lobes. Seeds 4, ovate, in the bottom of 

 the closed tumid calyx. 



Slightly aromatic herbs, with undivided leaves, and com- 

 pound, stalked, hairy, axillary and terminal 'w/iorls of 

 li^ht-purpYish Jioivers. 



This genus is distinguished from Thymus merely by the 

 concavity of the upper lip of the corolla, which is very 

 slight, and by the presence of an involucrum, which is 

 not really a part of the fructification. As the species are 

 few, they might perhaps be referred to Thymus. 



1. C. vulgarc. Common Wild Basil. 



Whorls bristly. Involucral leaves awl-shaped. Flower- 

 stalks branched. Leaves obscurely serrated. 



C. vulgare. Linn. Sp. PL 821. Willd. v. 3. 131. FL Br. 638. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 20. t. 1401. Hook. Scot. 184. FL Dan. L 930. 

 Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 169./. 



C. n. 239. HaU. Hist. v. 1. 104. 



C. origano simile. Bauh. Pin. 224. Rail Syn. 239. 



Clinopodium. Camer. Epit. 563./. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 43./. 1. 



Acynos. Ger. Em. 675. f. 



Acinos. Lob. Ic. 504./. 



In bushy places, about hedges, and by road sides, on a gravelly or 

 chalky soil. 



Perennial. .August. 



Herb hairy, weakly aromatic, of a rather light green, with ascend- 

 ing wavy stems, a foot high, more or less. Leaves ovate, about 

 an inch long, with shallow serratures, and rather short stalks ; 

 their ribs fringed beneath with copious bristly hairs. Whorls few, 

 axillary and terminal, of numerous, light purple, not unhand- 

 aome Jlowers, on forked or branched, hairy stalks, subtended by 

 narrow, awl-shaped, hairy involucral leaves, or rather bracteas. 

 All the hairs are coarse and spreading, like those on the calyx. 

 Cor. twice the length of the calyx, with a yellow hairy protube- 

 rance at each side of its mouth. 



298. ORIGANUM. Marjoram. 



Li7in. Gen.297. Juss. 1 15. FLBr.638. Tourn.t.94. Lam. L 511. 



luvohicrum of numerous, imbricated, dilated, flat, coloured, 



permanent leaves, one under each flower, longer than tlie 



