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Sweet Marjoram. 



MAJORANA. 



Common Garden Plant, of no great Beauty, 

 but kept for the fake of its Virtues and Ufe 



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It is a Foot* high. The Stalks are firm, upri 



„ d a little hairy. The Leaves are broad, Ihort, 

 and fomewhat hairy, of a pale green Colour, and 

 jiot indented at the Edges, and of a fine Smell. 

 At the Tops of the Branches, ftand a Kind of 

 foft fcaly Heads, three Quarters of an Inch long, 

 and from thefe grow the Flowers, which are fmall 

 and white. The Seeds are very fmall -, and the 

 Root is fibrous. The whole Plant has a fine 



Smell. 



The whole Plant is to be ufed frefh -, and it is 



beft taken by way of Infufion. It is good againfl 

 the Head-ach, and Dizzinefs, and all the inferior 

 Order of nervous 



who call it a Remedy for Apoplexies. It gently 



promotes the Menfes, and opens all Obftruft 

 The dried Herb may be given for th€ fame Pur- 



pofe in Powder, but it does not fucceed fo well. 



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Wild Marjoram. 



ORIGANUM. 



Wild Plant, frequent about Way-fides, in 

 many Places, but fuperior to the other m 

 Beauty and in Virtues. It very well deferves a 

 Place, on both Accounts, in our Gardens. It 

 grows a Foot and a half high. The Stalk is firm, 

 very upright, a little hairy, and of a purphfri 

 brown Colour, extremely regular in its Growth. 

 The Leaves are broad and Ihort, of the Bignefs 

 of one's Thumb Nail, and of a dark green Co- 

 lour ; two ftand at every Joint, and they have 



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