THYMUS VULGARIS. ORD. XIX. Verticillate: SAT 
The medicinal qualities of this plant agree with those of its con- 
gener, Wild Marjoram; but being much more fragrant it is deem- 
ed to be more cephalic, and better adapted to those complaints 
known by the name of nervous; and may be therefore employed 
with the same intentions as lavender. It is directed in the compo- 
sition of the pulvis sternutatorius by both Pharmacopezias, with 
a view to the agreeable odour which it diffuses to the asarabacca 
rather than to its errhine power, which is very considerable. 
._ [In its recent state, we are told, that it has been successfully 
applied to scirrhous tumours of the breasts.” 
> Cohausen in Comm. Nor. a. 1742, p. 151. 
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THYMUS VULGARIS. COMMON GARDEN THYME. 
SYNONYMA. Thymus. Pharm. Edinb, Thymus vulgaris 
folio tenuiore. Bauh. Pin. p. 219. Tourn. Inst. p. 196. Thy- 
mum durius. Dod. Pempt. p. 275. Gerard Emac. p. 573. Rai 
Hist. p. 521. Park. Theat. p.7. 
cure 
« Thymus vulgaris folio tenuiore. C. B. 
Narrow-leav’d Garden Thyme. 
B Thymus vulgaris folio latiore.* C. B, 
Broad-leav'd Garden Thyme. Hort. Kew. 
Class Didynamia. Ord. Gymnospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 727. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Calycis bilabiati faux villis clausa. , 
Sp. Ch. T. erectus, foliis revolutis ovatis, floribus verticillato 
spicatis. 
* This is the variety to which the figure and description here given apply. 
