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and it is commonly cultivated in cottage gardens to be made into 

 a tea which is a rustic remedy for colds.--I'"l. Jul)-- Septernljer, 

 I'erennial. 



2. LvcOPLJS (Gipsy-wort). — Marsh plants with toothed leaves 

 and small sessile -flowers in crowded axillary whorls ; calyx bell- 

 shaped, with 5 ccjual teeth ; coreilla short, nearly polysymmetric, 



4-oleft ; stamens 4, distant, 

 the 2 upper ones not pro- 

 ducing pollen ; millets free, 

 smooth. (Name from the 

 ("ireek lukos, a "wolf, puus, 

 a foot, from a fancied re- 

 seniblance in the leaves.) 



I, L. europeeus (Com- 

 mon Gipsy-wort). — The 

 only British species, with 

 creeping rhisoiiie and run- 

 ners ; slightly branched, 

 erect, acutely 4-anglcd 

 stein I — 3 feet high ; sub- 

 sessile, deeply cut or pin- 

 natifid, nearly smooth 

 leaves; and nimute white 

 flowers, dotted with red, in 

 crowded whorls in the axils 

 of the upper leaves. — Fl. 



Jufte- 

 nial. 



-September. Pcren- 



OrIgANU.M VULCARli {CotlUIlOii Marji'rani). 



3. Origanum (JSIar- 

 joram). — Aromatic plants, 

 with their flowers crowded 

 in corymbose cymes with 

 imbricate bracts ; calyx 

 with 5 equal teeth, 10 — 13 

 ribbed, the throat hairy ; 

 corolla obscurely 2-lipped ; stamens 4, distant ; nutlets free, smooth. 

 (Name from the Greek oros, mountain, gdnos, joy, the plant 

 growing on high ground.) 



I. 0. vulgdre (Common Marjoram). — The only British species, 

 growing about a foot high, and distinguished b)' its shortlv-stalked, 

 broadly ovate, downy leaves and heads of rosy floivers crowded into 

 a corymbose cyme, with deeply red-tinged, imbricate bracts form- 

 ing 4-sided spikelets. — Dry bushy places^ especially on chalk or 



