236 ~ WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Garpen Saturesa. Summer Savory. 
Fr. La Sarriette. Germ. Die Saturey. Span. Ajedréa. 
Root annual. Stem 6-12 inches high, obscurely 4-angled, branched so as to appear 
bushy, feu hiak pubescent, encatly dark purple. ges half an inch to an es a 
narrowed at base to avery short petiole: Cymules about 3-flowered—the wu 
crowded into a leafy spike. Corolla pale violet-purple, somewhat pamaoenhs pticce om 
sie _ the hispid-ciliate calyx-teeth. 
cultivated. Native of Southern Europe. FU. July-August. Fr. September. 
Obes. Cultivated as a culinary herb. 
10. ORI’'GANUM, LE. Marsoram 
hme Oros, a mountain, and Soaps) delight ; in allusion to its native sigsia 2 
the upper ia entire or 3-tooth e low : lip 2-toothed, trunc 
wanting. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper ee emarginate ; lower lip ri 3 
dand spreading. St ve Annuals or peren- 
nials with nearly entire /eaves and flowers in dense corymbose clusters or 
oblong spikes, imbricated wi ored bracts 
a O. Marsora’na, L. Somewhat branched ; leaves ellipti-obdeate: 
why and atiesoent on both sides ; spikelets oblong, clustered at the 
po of the branches. 
Sweet Marjoram 
Fr. La Miatodiine. Germ. Der Majoran. Span. Majorana. 
nnual. cage 9-18 inches high, subte: ~~ toe one ony of an inch to an inch 
long, varying from ovate to obovate _s 
n imbricated, mar; x 
like a distinct sepal, dilated, obtuse, ciliate-pilose and mostly 3- ene at ai 
below with the margins folde in, the lower tip or division oyate, smooth, ve 
white or tinged with purp 
Gardens: cultivated. Native of Africa and Asia. FT. July—Aug. Fr. September. 
Obs. One of the fragrant culinary herbs, generally cultivated. 
os eee . — 
rm, a 
Cal: ovod-ubulr, 10- ~ meee: bilabiat te, —the agent 
. nee Na ne bifid; throat villous. Corolla with t oper fk 
lower li be pes 
nearl flat, Teale Pp spreading, 3- e — 
tr. Stamens 4, exserted, diverging. Humble pare or suffruticose 
perennials, Lig small and entire strongly veined Jeaves and purplish or 
whitish flow 
1. T. vorea’e ay Stems erect or eboney at, base ; leaves —. 
ovate or lance-ovate, revolute on the margin in terminal in 
rupted leafy spikes. 
Common Tuymus. Garden Thyme. Standing Thyme. — 
