PL ex. cor. 32. LABIATE. 138. Origanum. 381 



brownish purple; corolla purplish. — Plant warm, aromatic; 

 dried leaves make a good tea; essential oil very acrid, used 

 as a caustic to rotten teeth and horses : tops dye purple. 



|3. rufescens. Leaves ovate, lanceolate ; spikes topshape ; 

 hractecB dull purplish brown. 



Origanum Onites, Raii Syn. 236,2, not of Linnaeus. 

 Marjorana major Anglica, Ger. em. 664,2. 

 Majorana latifolia, sive major Anglica, Parle. 12.i 

 Pot marjoram. Winter marjoram. 



Cultivated for a potherb. 



XXI. 1S9. MAJORANA. Brunsfel. Marjoram, 



Calyx 2-lipped ; mouth oblique, when fruitbearing naked ; 

 upper lip large ; lower lip 2-lobed ; coi-olla lipped ; tube 

 compressed ; galea upright, nicked ; Up 3-cut ; lobes nearly 

 equal; seeds roundish. — Flowers in dense spikes; bractecB 

 ovate, imbricate, 1 -flowered; spikes 4-sided, terminal or 

 axillary. 



1. Majorana tenuifolia. Fine-leaved marjoram. 

 Stem undershrubby ; leaves petioled, elliptical, slightly 



serrated, blunt, tomentose; spikes roundish, many, glome- 

 rate, peduncled ; braciecB pointed, 



Marjorana tenuifolia, Ger. em. 664, 3. 



Origanum Majorana /?, Lin. S, P. 825. 



Origanum majoraiioides, Willd. S. P. 3, 13T. 



Majorana ovatifolia, Stokes Bot. M. M. 352. ^ 



Marjoram gentle. 



Cultivated for an aromatic pot-herb : peren. ; June, July. 



2. Majorajia vulgaris. Common marjordm. 

 Root annual ; stem herbaceous ; leaves petioled, elliptical, 



blunt, nearly bald, edge not nicked ; spikes roundish, in 

 threes, compact, peduncled. 



Marjorana major, Ger. em. 664, 1 . 

 Majorana vulgaris, Park. 33. 

 Origanum Majorana, Lin. S. P. 825. 

 Majorana ovatifolia, Stokes Bot. M, M. 350. 

 Origanum odorum, Salisb. Prod. 85. 

 Great steeet marjoram. Fine marjoram. 



Cultivated for an aromatic pot-herb; peren.; June, July. 



Stem upright, downy; hairs drooping; branches few at 

 the bottom; upper braches spreading, flower-bearing; hrac- 

 tecB Qvate, longer than the calyx. 



