nyssorus orricrnaurs:  -ORD. XIX. Verticillate. 319 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Corolle \abium inferius lacinula intermedia crenata. 
Stamina recta, distantia. 
Sp. Ch. H. spicis secundis, foliis lanceolatis. 
THE root is perennial, knobbed, woody, and furnished with many 
long fibres: the stalk is shrubby, somewhat square, upright, much 
branched, and rises about two feet in height: the leaves are long, 
narrow, elliptical, entire, obtusely pointed, of a deep green colour, 
and stand in pairs without footstalks: the flowers are produced 
chiefly on one side, in short verticillated spikes, terminating the 
branches, and are of a blue colour: the calyx is tubular, striated, 
and divided at the extremity into five pointed segments: the 
corolla is monopetalous, and consists of a narrow tube, which di- 
vides at the limb into two expanded lips; the uppermost is short, 
roundish, and notched at the apex; the lowermost is separated 
into three segments, of which the undermost is very large, and 
inversely heart-shaped: the filaments are four, two long, and two 
short, and crowned with simple antherz: the style is baie 2S and 
divided at the top into a double stigma: the germen is separated 
into four parts or seeds, which are lodged at the bottom of the 
calyx. It is a native of Siberia, and the mountainous parts of 
Austria, and flowers from June till September. 
The Hyssop, mentioned in the Old Testament, is not supposed t to 
be the plant here described, which is neither the Esuf of the 
Hebrews, nor the %%swxs of the Greeks.* It was first cultivated in 
England by Gerard,* im 1596, and is now extremely common in 
our gardens. The leaves of Hyssop have an aromatic smell, and 
a bitterish moderately warm taste. They give out their active 
* Vide Le Clerc’s Hist. p. 626. cited by Alston, who says, I shall only take notice 
that xaAames in St. Matthew’s Gospel, chap. xxvii. ver. 48. is dsswros in St. John’s, 
chap. xix. ver. 29. Probably it is the 2ufe or cyfe, i. e. Hyssop of the Arabians, 
Leét. on the M. M. v. ii. p. 152. 
* Vide Hort. Kew. 
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