DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 315 



Ibmetimes recommenJcd in hyfteric cafes, but is 

 at prefent little ufed. 



MARRUBIUM. Gen. pi 721. 



Cal. hypocrateriformis, rigidus, 1 o-llriatus. Corolla 



labium fuperius 2-fidum, lineare, redum. 



rare i. MARRUBlUiVI dentibus calycinis letaceis uncina- 

 tis. Sp. pi. 816. {Ger. emac. 693. /. i. Rivin, /. 

 67. BlackivelL t. 479. Pet. herb. t. 32. /. 3.J 



White Horehound. Anglis. 



In wafte places and by way-fides near towns and 

 villages, but not common, as about Burntijlandy 

 &c. it.Vilf. 



Several rigid creel ilalks ariie from the root a cubit 

 high : the leaves are of a bluntly oval or rounded 

 form, deeply wrinkled, hoary, and crenated on 

 the edges : the flowers are white, and grow in 

 thick felTile whirls, fifty or more in each. The 

 mouth of the Calyx is downy, and fubtcnded by 

 linear BraElea : the middle fegment of the lower 

 lip of the Corolla is crenulated : the flowers fade 

 without falfing out of the Calyces. 

 It has a flrong and fomewhat mufky finell, and bit- 

 ter tafl:e. It is reputed attenuant and refolvent. 

 An infufion of the leaves in water, fweetened 

 with honey, is recommended in afthmatic and 

 pthificky complaints, and mod other difeafes of 

 the breafl: and lunss. 



LEONURUS. 



