302 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
of purple flowers just above the grass. The smell is very 
pleasant, resembling lemons. The flowers are in a head, 
the stalk branched, and trailing on the ground; leaves very 
small, oval, and opposite to each other. 
a 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
CoOROLLIFLOR®. LAMIACE. 
ORIGANUM. (Marsoram.) 
Generic Character. Flowers in spikes, or head, resembling a 
catkin (a long, round, hanging spike), and with many bracteas. 
Corolla with the upper lip erect, lower one divided into three. 
ORIGANUM VULGARE. Common Marjoram. Not unfre- 
quent on dry, hilly, and bushy places. Stems about a foot 
high. Flowers purple, in crowded heads; the bracteas 
tinged with the same colour. Smell fragrant. 
DimpyNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
CoROLLIFLORZ. LAMIACEA. 
TEUCRIUM. (Germanper.) 
Generic Character. Calyx tubular, five-toothed. Corolla with 
