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Plants which have labiated flowers, with four feeds following each, and placed 
naked in the cup; and whofe leaves fiand in pairs upon the fralks. 
HIS is a clafs as obvioufly diftinguithed by Nature, and as perfectly feparated from all others, 
| as any the whole feries of plants affords; and the generality of authors have paid fo 
much regard to thefe her obvious chara¢ters, as to keep them together. They make the 
verticillate plants of Mr. Ray and others. ° 
They could not but be kept together by all who formed their fyftems on the great and plain 
marks impreffed on plants; becaufe they fo perfectly, and in fo many charatters, refemble one an- 
other, that they are plainly a fingle family ; to which no plant can be added, and from which none can 
be feparated without violence to the moft effential diftinétions: but the modern methods pay very 
little regard to Nature. ; ; 
Linneus feparates defony and vervain by twelve claffes: not becaufe one has, and the other 
has not labiated flowers, leaves in pairs, and four naked feeds; for in thefe moft effential characters 
they agree: but becaufe detony has four threads in the flower, two of which are longer, and two 
fhorter, it is placed among the didynamia ; and becaufe vervain has only two, it ftands among the 
diandria, feparated from the reft of the labiated naked-feeded kind, and joined with /peedwell and en- 
chanters night/bade. 
“This may ftand as an inftance of the impropriety of modern fyftems. The reader will pardon me 
the unwilling tafk of producing more on this occafion, fince he will difcern them in the characters of 
the genera. 
ELLIBLILSHSHSOSHOGGIS HOPS SSSI HOLSRSSPSHSSSII IGS 
SeeBereR® 1) Beas I. 
Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
G E N Wear S I. 
MOTHER OF THYME. . 
SUR RSP eal, De eUicg Ve 
HE flower is of the labiated kind, formed of a fingle petal, and gaping at the thouth. The 
upper lip is obtufe and {mall : the lower lip is longer, and divided into three fegments ; the 
middle one of which is larger than the others. “The cup is divided into two lips; and the feeds are 
naked, fmall, and round. : 
Linnaeus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia s the threads in the flower being two longer 
and two fhorter, and the feeds having no covering. He includes in the fame genus feveral plants not 
properly belonging to it 5 and, inftead of ferpyllum, calls it thymus. This is a matter of indifference, 
for either name will do for both shyme and mother of thyme ; but as we have moft of the Jferpyllums, I 
have taken that. 
N° XXXV. ; 4U DIV I- 
