Thymus.] labiate. 377 



small, usually but little longer than the calyx, deep violet-blue ; upper lip hairy. 

 Anthers linear. Style much exserted, filiform, violet and little hairy in its upper 

 part, deeply bifid, with acute divaricate segments. Achenia roundish ovate, very 

 bluntly trigonous, dull black and wiinkled or covered with depressed dots. 



Many real and more imaginary virtues have been attributed to Sage in all 

 times, even to the power of conferring immortality, if we may credit the classical 

 muse of the Schola Salmitaua, 



" Cur moriatur homo, cui Salvia crescit in horto ? " 



Tribe III. SatdreinejE, Benth. 



" Corolla ^.-lipped. Stamens 4, distant; cells of anthers sepa- 

 rate, divergent; connective dilated." — Bab. Man. 



IV. Origanum, Linn. Marjoram. 



" Spikes (or heads) of flowers somewhat 4-sided, resembling a 

 catkin, imbricated with bracteas. Calyx equally 5-toothed (or 

 8-lipped). Corolla with the upper lip erect, nearly plane ; lower 

 one jjatent, trifid. Stamens diverging, connectivum subtriangular." 

 ~Br. Fl. 



1. O. vulgare, L. Common Marjoram. "Heads of flowers 

 roundish panicled crowded, bracteas ovate longer than the calyx, 

 calyx equally 5-toothed hairy in the throat, leaves stalked broadly 

 ovate obtuse entire or toothed." — Br. Fl. p. 311. E. B. t. 1143. 



On dry hilly pastures, banks, in rough stony woods and steep bushy places ; 

 abundant on the chalk. Fl. July — September. If. 



E. Med. — Brading and Yaverland, in abundance. Steephill, B. T. W. 



W. Med. — Profusely and very fine on chalky slopes in the woody valley near 

 Ruwletlge, 1843. Carisbrooke and the castle, B. T. W. 



Nuts minute, purplish brown, roundish ovoid, more or less triquetrously com- 

 pressed, pointed at the base, smooth and glabrous, not shining. 



This plant, if not originally native, is completely naturalized in some parts of 

 the United Slates. I have seen it plentifully in the woods at Hoboken, New Jer- 

 sey, near Philadelphia, and elsewhere. 



V. Thymus, Linn. Thyme. 



" Flowers whorled or capitate. Calyx with 10—13 ribs, tubu- 

 lar, 2-lipped; upper Zip 3-toothed, lower one bifid; the throat 

 hairy. Corolla . -with the upper lip erect, nearly plane; lower 

 patent and trifid. Stamens diverging. Anther -cells at first 

 nearly parallel, afterwards diverging ; connectivum subtriangular.'' 

 ~Br. Fl 



1. T. Serpyllum, L. Wild Thyme. Mother of Thyme. 

 " Flowers capitate, stems branched decumbent, leaves plane ovate 

 obtuse entire petiolate more or less ciliated at the base, floral 

 leaves similar, teeth of the upper lip of the calyx ovato -lanceolate 

 of the lower subulate ciliated, upper lip of the corolla notched 

 ovato-quadrangular."— .Br. Fl. p. 311. E. B. t. 1514. 



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