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VI. 
WILD MARJORAM. 
ORIGANU™M 
rPHE flowet is formed of a fingle petal: it is tubulat, and comprefied at the bottom, atid at the 
‘opening is divided into two lips: the upper lip is undivided, plain, and lightly finuated at the 
end: the lower lip is fplic into three parts, nearly equal in bignefs. Numbers of the flowers are 
placed together in a kind of fcaly head, ferving as a general cup. The feeds are naked; and four 
. follow every flower. 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia 5 the flower having four threads, two of 
‘which are longer than the others, and the feeds ftanding naked in the cup. He joins fome other 
plants with it, which we have treated diftin@tly in their places, referving the proper origanums to this. 
DIVISION L 
1. Common Wild Marjoram. 
Origanum vulgare. 
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The root is compofed of 2 great many long, 
fiender, naked fibres. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and of a very re- 
gular growth : it is not branched 5 but toward the 
top fends out fome fhoots in a handfome manner } 
to fuftain the Mowers: it is ufually of a brownith 
colour. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have very 
fhort footftalks : they are fhort, broad, nearly of } 
-an oval figure, undivided at the edges; and of a 
brownifh green. 
The flowers are finall, and of a pale red: they 
grow in tufts and clufters from certain leafy heads 5 
and they alfo are purplifh. 
‘The feeds are fmall and brown. 
-Jt is common in dry, hilly paftures, and by 
road-fides in fuch fituations. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Origanum fylveftre cunila 
bubula Plinit. Others, Majorana fylvefris, and 
Origanum vulgare. 
It is an excellent medicine in nervous cafes: it 
js warm, cordial, and: aromatick. The leaves 
and tops;. dried and powdered, are. good againft 
DIVISION IL 
Long=fpiked Origahum. 
Origanum capitulis longioribus. 
"The root is fibrous, and brown. 
The ftalk is frm, upright, fquare, anda foot 
and half high. 
The leaves are oblong, and of .# dufky green': 
they ftand in pairs, and they are not at all in- 
dented at the edges, and their points are obtufe. 
‘The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
ee ene 
' headachs. 
4 branches in long, flender {pikes : 
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The tops of the plant madé¢ into a 
conferve are good againft flatulencies and difor- 
ders of the ftomach and bowels. The whole 
plant given in infufion is excellent againft ob- 
ftructions of the vifcera, and in the jaundice. 
2, Pot Marjoram. 
Origanum onites. 
The root is fibrous; and its fibres are long, 
flender, very numerous, and brown. 
The ftalks are numerous and robuft : they are 
fquares of a brown colour, ritoderately branched, 
and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a brownifh 
green: they have fhort footftalks; and they 
ftand in pairs. 
The flowers ftand in clufters at the tops of the 
branches, and are of a pale red. 
It is a native of England, and other parts of 
Europe, and flowers in July. 
We take it into gardens for the fervice of the 
kitchen: it is a warm, wholefome plant, good 
againft flatulencies and indigeftions. 
C. Bauhine calls it Origanum onites; a name 
Copied by moft of the other writers. Sonte call it 
Majorana major Anglica. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
they are fmall, 
and of a very faint redifh colour. : 
The feeds are brown and longith. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Origanum Heracleoticum 
' cunila gallinacea Plimi, 
Its tafte is extremely hot ; and its virtues are 
| the fame with the former. 
S Vil. 
SEEBRIGHT. 
SCLARE A. 
rpHE flower is formed of a fingle petal: it. is tubular, and compreffed in the lower part, and 
gapes at the edge, 
the lower lip is larger, and is divided into three fegments: 
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where it is divided into two lips. The upper lip is long, flatted, and crooked : 
the middle one of thefe is broader than 
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