330 ORD. XIX. Verticillate. RGSMARINUS OFFICINALIS. 
from the axilla of the leaves: the calyx is divided into two lips, 
of these the uppermost is entire, but the undermost is cloven into 
two pointed segments: the corolla is monopetalous, consisting of 
_acylindrical tube, longer than the calyx, and divided at the brim’ 
into two lips; the upper lip is erect and bifid, the under lip is sepa- 
rated into three segments; of these the middle segment is larger 
than both the others: the two filaments are long, curved, tapering, 
towards the base furnished with a small tooth, and supplied with 
simple anther: the germen is separated into four parts, which 
support a slender style, terminated by a cleft pointed stigma: the 
seeds are four, of an oblong shape, and lodged in the bottom of the 
calyx. Rosemary * is a native of the South of Europe and the 
Levant. It is commonly cultivated in our gardens, where it usually 
flowers in April and May. 
The ancients were well acquainted with this plant, as it is men- 
tioned by Dioscorides, Galen, and Pliny.* It grows wild in some of 
the southern parts of France, but more abundantly in Spain and 
Italy. Its cultivation in this country, like many other plants which 
we have had occasion to mention, is probably of ancient date, a 
now cannot be traced beyond the time of Gerard. 
Rosemary has a fragrant aromatic smell, and a bitterish pungent 
taste. The leaves and tops of this plant are the strongest in their 
sensible qualities: the flowers, which are also directed for-use by 
the College, are not to be separated from their cups or calyces, as 
the active matter principally, if not wholly, resides in the latter.‘ 
* Ros dici putatur quia roscide sit nature, vel quia roris instar aspergatur, ‘vel 
quia ejus usus in aspergillis, guod nobis vertsimilius uidetur: marinus autem vel quia 
in marinis locis feliciter proveniat, vel quia saporis marini, hoc est, amari. Voss. 
Etymolog. Vide Ray, 1. c. 
* itis called APavaris by the Greeks, (Dioscor. Lib. 3. cap. 89.) Pliny, Lib. 24, 
cap. 11. de rore murino. Hence it may have been alluded to by Virgil in the fol- 
lowing lines: 
Nam jejuna quidem clivosi glarea ruris 
Vix humiles apibus casias roremque ministrat, Grora. ii. dD. 21% 
Lewis M. M. p. 544, 
