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kind. The fame thing is frequently obvious in 

 the Veronica cbam^d-rys^ Cerajlhim, & Glecoma. 



The flowers of thyme are commonly of a bright 

 purple, but they vary much both in fize and 

 color. 



It has a pleafant aromatic fcent, and is efleemed a 

 good nervine. An infufion of it by way of tea 

 is reputed to be an almoft infallible cure for that 

 troublefome diforder, the Incubus^ or Ni(^ht-mare« 



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THYMUS floribus verticillatis, pedunculis uni- 

 floris, caulibus ere6lis fubramofis, foliis acutis 

 ferratis. Lin. fyfi. nat. 399. 6^. -pi. 826. (Ger. 

 em. 675. /. I. Rivin. t. 43. Pet. herb. t. ^2^ f. 

 10. Moris, hiji.f. 11. /. 18./. i. ordinis fuperioris) 



Small wild Bafil, Anglis, 



In dry mountainous places, and gravelly foils, b^jf 

 not common. G. VIII. 



The ftalk is rigid and branched : the leaves are oval 

 and acuminated, indented above the middle, but 

 entire at the bafe : the Calyx on the under fide 

 bulges at the bafe, and is ftreaked with eleven 

 ciliated ridges. They grow from five to cisht 

 in a whirl. The flower is violet-color'd, "the 

 middle iegment of the lower lip fpotted with 

 white or yellow. 



The whole plant has a pleafant aromatic fmell. 



SCUTELLARIA. Gen, pL 734. 



Calyx ore intcgro, pufl florefcentiam ciauib, oper- 



culato. 



SCUITELLARIA 



