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fometimes recommended in hyftcric ciifcs, but is 

 at prefent little ufed. 



MARRUBIUM. Ccn. pi. 721. 



CaL hypocrateriformis, rigidus, 10-ftriatus. Corolla 

 labium fiiperius 2-fidum, lineare, rcdum. 



VkW^'ire .1. MARRUBIUM dentibus calycinis fetaccis uncina- 

 tis. Sp.pl. 816, {Gcr, emac. tc^^.f, i. Rivin.. i. 

 67. BlackisoeJL t. 479. Fet, herb, t. 32. /. 3 J 

 White Ho re hound. Anglls, 



In wafte places and by way^fides near towns and 

 villages, but not comir^on, as about Burntijland-i 

 &c.V.VlI[. 

 Several rigid erecl (lalks arife from the root a cubic 

 high : the leaves are of a bluntly oval or rounded 

 form, deeply wrinkled, hoary, and crenated oa 

 the edges : the fiowers are Vv'hite, and grow in 

 thick feffile whirls, fifcy or more in each. The 

 mouth of \}^^ Calyx is downy, and fubtended by 

 linear Bracle^ : the middle fegment of the lower 

 lip of the Corolla is crenulated : the flowers fade 

 without falling out of the Calyces, 

 It has a llrong and fomewhat mufky fmell, and bit- 

 ter tafte. It is reputed attenuant and refolvent. 

 An intufion of the leav^es in v/ater, fvveetened 

 with honey, is recommended in afthmatic and 

 pthificky complaints, and mod other difeafes of 

 the brcail and lun^s. 



LEONURUS. 



