344 ORD. XIX. Verticillate. 
ORIGANUM VULGARE. WILD MARJORAM, 
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SYNONYMA, Origanum. Pharm. Lond. Origanum sylvestre. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 223. Origanum anglicum. Gerard. Emac. p. 666. 
Origanum vulgare spontaneum. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 236. Raii 
Hist. p. 539. Synop. p. 236. Origanum foliis ovatis, umbellis. 
coloratis, staminibus exsertis. Huall."Hist. Stirp. Helo. n. 233. 
Origanum vulgare. Huds. Flor. Ang. p. 262. ed. 2d. Lighif. 
Flor. Scot. p. 317. Withering Bot. Arr. p. 621. Curtis Flor. 
Lond. 338. 
Class Didynamia. Ord. Gymnospermia, Lin. Gen. Plant. 726. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Strobilus tetragonus,. spicatus, calyces colligens. 
Sp. Ch. O.spicis subrotundis paniculatis conglomeratis, bracteis 
calyce longioribus ovatis 
THE root is perennial, creeping, and beset with numerous slender’ 
fibres: the stem is erect, square, purplish, downy, producing op-. 
posite hranches, and rises about a foot and a half in height: the 
leaves stand upon footstalks in pairs at the joints; and are ovate, 
pointed, somewhat indented at the edges, above smooth, beneath 
downy, and of a deep yellowish green colour: the flowers are nu-- 
_ merous, terminal, of a pale purplish colour, and stand in pannicles. 
or clusters: the bractez, or floral leaves, are ovalish, sessile, and of 
a brownish red colour: the calyx is tubular, and divided at the brim: 
into five segments, which are fringed at the edges: the corolla con- 
sists of a funnel-shaped tube, longer than the calyx, divided at the 
limb into two lips, of which the upper is erect, bifid, obtuse; the 
lower trifid, blunt, and spreading: the filaments are four, two long 
and two short, of a purple colour, and furnished with double 
