380 136. Ballote. 32. LABIATE. PL ex. cor. 



Stem branched ; hairs recurved ; leaves petioled ; whirls 

 bracteated; hractecs bristlelike, fringed, shorter than the 

 calyx ; calyx funnelshape ; teeth very short, awned ; corolla 

 purple ; galea yellow ; odour acrid, pungent. — Decoction of 

 the herb useful in hypochondriacal and hysterical diseases. 



XIX. 137. MARRUBIUM. Pliny. HoreJwund. 

 Calyx hypocrateriform, ridged, 10-streaked, regular, 



10-toothed ; 5 alternate teeth smaller ; corolla lipped ; tube 

 as long as the calyx; galea linear, straight, 2- cut; lip3-cut; 

 middle lobe reverse heartshape. — Flowers in whirls, axil- 

 lary ; whirls sessile, many-flowered, bracteated. 



Marrubium vulgare. Common horehonnd. 



Stem upright ; leaves rather round, ovate, toothed, 

 wrinkled, veined ; teeth of the calyx bristlelike, hooked. 



Marrubiutn album, Rail Syn. 239, I ;" Ger. em. 693, 1 ; Riuinus 3Jon. 66, 

 Marrubium album vulgare, Park. 44. 

 Marrubium vulgare, Lin. S. P. 816. 

 Marrubium uncinatum, Stokes Bot. M. M. 355. 

 White horehound. 



Ruins and waysides ; perennial ; July. 

 Stem woolly ; leaves petioled, white, woolly beneath ; 

 whirls \ery hairy; Zirac/ete bristlelike ; coro/Za white. 



XX. 138. ORIGANUM. Theophrastus. Orgamj. 

 Calyx c^'lindrical, 5-toothed ; teeth unequal, mouth 



closed with hairs ; corolla lipped ; tube compressed ; galea 

 upright, nicked ; lip 3-cut, nearly equal ; seed roundish. — 

 Flowers densely spiked; bract ece ovate, imbricate, 1 -flowered; 

 spikes many, terminal or axillary. 



Origanum vulgare. Common orgamj. 



Leaves ovate ; spike roundish, panicled ; panicles conglo- 

 merate ; hractecB ovate, coloured, as long as the calyx. 



Origanum vulgare spontaneum, Raii Syn. 236, 1. 



Origanum Anglicum, Ger. em. 666,4. 



Origanum, Rivinus Mon. 60. 



M.'ijorana sylvestris, Park. 12. 



Origanum vulgare, Lin. S. P. 821. 



Origanuiri floridum, Salisb. Prod. 85. 



English wild marjoram. Grove marjoram. 



Chalk-fields and hedges ; perennial ; July and August. 

 Stem hirsute ; hairs turned back ; leaves ovate, slightly 

 and rarely serrated ; spikes crowded, ovate ; bractea; deep 



