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GROUND IVY. GLECHOMA. 



GROUND IVY. Glechoma hederacea. 



Plate 8, fig. 19. 



" Gill go on the Ground," and " Runaway Jack," are two 

 of the common country names for the Ground Ivy and they 

 express truly its creeping habit, for it lies close to the earth, 

 and runs along on waste ground, in orchards, &c., sometimes 

 with shoots two or three feet in length, bearing three flowers 

 to each leaf all along the stem. Leaves heart or kidney- 

 shaped, stalked, hairy, and with scolloped edges. Flowers 

 blue, white towards the centre, and with two red or purple spots 

 upon the under lip. The stamens are joined together two and 

 two, so that the anthers of each pair form a cross. 



It is of a bitter taste, and is often boiled or steeped in ale, 

 to which it gives a pleasant aromatic flavor, thus it is very 

 often called Alehoof or Alehave. Flowers all the summer. 



WHITE HOREHOUND. MARRUBIUM. 



COMMON HOREHOUND. Marrubium vulgare. 

 Plate 8, fig. 20. 



An upright growing plant, frequent in dry situations, espe- 

 cially in the chalky parts of the South of England, flowering 

 in the latter part of Summer and Autumn. The leaves are 

 roundish, wrinkled, toothed, and stalked. Calyx with ten 

 hooked teeth. Corolla white. Stamens very short, and the 

 whole plant very white and downy. Horehound Tea is a well- 

 known remedy for coughs, and Candied Horehound is a still 

 more favorite preparation. 



THYME. THYMUS. 



COMMON THYME. Thymus serpyllum. 

 Plate 9, fig. 1. 



Thyme is one of the most fragrant and abundant plants 

 that grow. There are few of us who do not know " many 

 a bank where the wild Thyme blows," where it spreads 

 its little woody stems, and puts out its little ovate leaves, 



