318 ORD. XIX. Veriicillaie. cucoma uepERacea. 
favourite remedy with the poor, who probabiy experience its good 
effects by still persevering in its use. Ray, Mead, and some others, 
speak of its being usefully joined with fermenting ale ;* but Dr. 
Cullen observes, “it appears to me frivolous. In short, in may 
cases where I have seen it employed, I have had no evidence either 
of its diuretic or of its pectoral effects. In common with many 
other of the verticillatz, it may be employed as an errhine, and in 
that way cure a head-ach,* but no otherways by any specific 
quality.” It is usually taken in the way of infusion, or drunk as tea. 
* From the general use of Ground-ivy, mixed with ale, &c. it acquired the name 
‘of Ale-hoof and Tun-hoof, 
4 Ray gives a remarkable instance of its efficacy in this way, in the ease of Mr, 
Oldacres, and says, ** Succus hujus piante naribus attractus cephalalgiam etiam 
vehementissimam & inveteratam non lenit tantim sed & penitus aufert—Medica- 
mentum hoc non satis pote wees si res ex usu xsfimarentur, auro xquiparan- 
dum.” l.c, 
HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS. COMMON HYSSOP. ’ 
SYNONYMA. Hyssopus. Pharm. Edinb. Hyssopus Officinarum 
cerulea sive spicata. Bauh. Pin. p. 217. Hyssopus vulgaris. 
Park, Theat. Hyssopus Arabum. Gerard. Emac. p. 576. Hyssopus 
vulgaris spicatus angustifolius. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 274. Raii 
Hist. p. 516. Hyssopus foliis linearibus punctatis, verticillis in 
spica continuatis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 249. Jacquin Flor. Aust. 
t. 254, 
Farietates sunt, » foliis glabris, floribus ceruleis: g foliis glabris, 
floribus rubris:  foliis glabris, floribus albis: 3 foliis pilosis. 
Aiton’s Hort. Kew. 
Class Didynamia, Ord. Gymnospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 709. 
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