DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 317 



Great Wild Bafil. Anzlis. 



In woods and dry expofures, but not very common. 

 I obferved it in the woods about Dunkeld, and at 

 Duplin, and Dr. Parfons found it in Coryton 

 woods, near Edi7iburgh. In Buden hill, near fiie 

 fCippis, m M'^eft Lothian. Sibbald. %. VIII. 



The whole plant is hairy and foft to the touch, 

 about a foot and a half high : the leaves are 

 oval, and fcarcely indented : the flowers are of 

 a pale red, growing in thick whirls (40 in a whirl) 

 on branched peduncles, one of the whirls al- 

 ways terminating the ilalk and branches : the 

 Calyx is very hairy, and the Corolla prominent 

 and much longer than the Calyx. 



The fmell of this plant is fomewhat aromatic, and 

 not unpleafant. 



ORIGANUM. Gen. -pi 726. 

 Sirohilus tetragonus, fpicatus, calyces coiligens. 

 ORIGANUM fpicis fubrotundis paniculatis con- 

 glomeratis, brafteis calyce longioribus ovatis. Sp. 

 pi. 824, (Ger. em. 66G. f. 4. Rivin. t. 60. Black- 

 zc'ell. t. 280. Moris, hifi. /. 11. /. 3. /. 12. Pet. 

 herb. t. 34./. 8; 

 Wild Marjoram, yinglis. 



In dry mountainous and rocky places, as about 

 Bunkeld, Duplin, and in the den of Bethaick, 

 uQ^r Perth, &c, 11. VIIL 

 The ftalk is round, a cubit high, and branclied : 



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