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DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 317 



Great Wild Bafil. Jngiis. 



In woods and dry expofures, but not very common. 

 I obferved it in the woods about Bunkeld, and at 

 Duplin^ and Dr. Parfons found it in Coryton 

 woods, near Edinburgh. In Buden hill, neai* t\ic 

 Rippis, in M^ejl Lothian, Sibbald. %, VIII. 



The whole plant is hairy and foft to the touch, 

 about a foot and a half high : the leaves are 

 oval, and fcarcely indented : the flowers are of 

 a pale red, growing in thick whirls (40 in a whirl) 

 on branched peduncks, one of the whirls al- 

 ways terminating the ftalk and branches : the 

 Calyx is very hairy, and the Corolla prominent 

 and much longer than thg Calyx, 



The fmell of this plant is fomewhat aromatic, and, 

 not unpleafant. 



ORIGANUM. Cen, pL 726. 

 StrohUus tetragonus, fpicatus, calyces colligens, 

 ORIGANUM fpicis fubrotundis paniculatis con- 

 glomeratis, bra6leis calyce longioribus ovatis. Sp^ 

 pi. 824, {Ger. em. 666. f. 4. Rivin. I. 60. Black- 

 well. /. 280. Moris, hi ft. J. 11. /. 3. /. 12. Pet. 

 herb. t. 34./. 8; 

 Wild Marjoram. Anglis. 



In dry mountainous and rocky places, as about 

 Bimkeld^ Duplin^ and in the den of Bethaick^ 

 near Perth, dec. if. VIII. 

 The ftalk is round, a cubit high, and branched -. 



the 



