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a ee ee eS 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Thymus. 525. 
up to the mouth ; without beset’ with ‘short fine hairs, and mi- 
nute white shining globules. B/oss. pale-red, paler 3; the middle 
2 Re rather longer than the rest. Szamens as long, or longer 
the blossom, but in some specimens they are shorter, and 
fe the anthers appear to be destitute of pollen 
Var. 2. Leaves egg-spear-shaped. 
Lob. obs. 264. 2—ics i. 494. 2-Ger, em. 664. 2-Park, 12. 4~ 
és OX. Xi. Os 9. 
Oram. 
Wild or Field _ pita Thickets and sen in a calcare- 
ous soil. [Catton, near Norwich. Mr. Woopwarn. Ina wo 
near Cartmel Wells. Mr. Arxtxson. Clapham, Mockchire, Mr. 
Carey. ] 
P. July.* 
THY’MU: S. Calys 9-lipped; mouth closed with 
soft hairs. 
ae Floweid in heads: stems creeping: leaves flat, blunt, serpyl’lum. 
fringed at the base 
Fi, dan. 1164-Kuiph 6—Ludw. 121-Vaill. 32. 9, and 7~ 
Curt.-Clus. i. 359. 1—Dod. 277. 1—Lob. abs. 230. 2; and 
it. 1.423. a-Gere em. 570. 1—Park 8. 10—Pet. 31. i" 
Huox. Xi. 17, row 1. 1-Fuchs. 251~F. B. iii. 260- 
Blackw. .418-—Matth. 725—Riv. mon. et 2, ania 
minore.—Ger. 455. 1, and 2—Lonic.i. 119. 
_ Calyx teeth fringed. Stamens as long as the blossam. Liny. 
Filaments those inserted below the upper lip shorter than the 
Ho 
tube, those below the under lip longer than the tu L- 
LEFEAR. S. oody, nearly cylindrical. Leaves oblong-egs- 
s A entire, with hollow dots on both surfaces, fringed 
at the base with a few fine white hairs. Calyx coloured with a 
ae of white hairs running round the —. at the base of the 
ts, which, while the plant is in flower, lye flat to the 
ides of the calyx, but when the blossom falls of expanding close 
os its mouth. B/oss. purplish red. 
oak The whole plant is a warm aromatic. ‘The dried leaves, used in- 
Stead of tea, are exceedingly grateful ; the essential oi! of this plant is so 
acrid, ‘that it m may be considered as a caustic, and is much used wit that 
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nt € use the saps to dye purple. Goats and sheep eat it. 
Horses are not fond of it., Cows tefuse it. 
