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RANGE: roadsides and arid hills. 



USES. These two plants are used in kitchens to season sauces and ragouts. In 

 medicine they're regarded as cephalics, expectorants, aperients, and emmenagogues. The 

 parts that are used are the flowering tips taken as an infusion like tea. These two species 

 of thyme impart an excellent flavor to the meat of sheep that graze on them. 



CULTIVATION. They're propagated in March by dividing the clumps and lightly 

 watering them until they take root. They have to have warm loose soil, not too heavy, and 

 a southern exposure. 



KEY TO PLATES. 



699. Common thyme. 1. Leaf, greatly enlarged. 2. Intact calyx, enlarged. 3. Open 

 corolla and stamens. 4. Open calyx and pistil, enlarged. 



700. Wild thyme. 1. Open calyx and pistil. 2. Open corolla. 3. Intact calyx, 

 enlarged. 



