358 ORD. XIX. Verticillate. ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS. 
Simon Paulli also ascribes to it powers, which may be considered 
as rather miraculous than natural, and which did not seem to re- 
quire contradiction frorn the experiments of Alston.®* 
_ Modern writers do not allow the Betony to possess any consider- 
able efficacy: Scopoli indeed says that he experienced its cephalic 
and corroborant effects; but its sensible qualities show it to be 
more inert than most of the other verticillate. Both this plant 
and Eyebright enter into the composition of Rowley’s British herb 
tobacco and snuff. 
> See Alston. t. c. 
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ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS. DITTANY of CRETE, 
‘SYNONYMaA.  Dictamnus creticus. Pharm. Geoff. ii. 272. 
Dale. 148. Alston. ti. 129. Lewis, 274. Edinb. New Dispens. 
183. Murray.ii.139. Bergius. 529. Bauh. Pin. 222. Park, 
Theat. 27. Ray. Hist. 587. Ger. Emac. 795. 
Didynamia. Gymnospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 762. 
Gen. Ch. Strobilus tetragonus, spicatus, calyces colligens. 
Sp. Ch. OQ. foliis inferioribus tementosis, spicis nutantibus. 
ROOT fibrous, perennial. Stalk about a foot in height, branched, 
downy, ligneous. Leaves ovate, blunt, opposite, on short foot- 
stalks, thick, covered with soft white hairs. Flowers purple, in 
spikes. Bractez roundish, smooth, coloured, numerous, forming 
quadrangular spikes. Calyx small, five-toothed, concealed by the 
bractee. Corolla monopetalous, consisting of a long tube, divided 
at the limb into two lips, of which the upper is straight, and en- 
