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i> defcribed as rather thick. Panich long and large, much 

 branched. Permanent corolla tumid, and, as well as the 

 feed, fomevvhat ovate, with very (hort awns. We have feen 

 no fpecimen of this fpecies, but the ovate tumid glumes, 

 with the fimilar form of the feed, which gave occafion to 

 the fpcciftc name, appear to conllitute a very clear diftmc- 

 tion between this and both the preceding, nor is the figure 

 of Sloane, which we have referred to our ejufa, by any 

 means reconcileable to the prcfent plant. 



4. Z.Jukans. Floating Wild-Rice. Michaux Boreal. - 

 Amer. v. i. 75. Willd. n. 5. Purfh n. 3.—" Spikes foli- 

 tary, axillary, about four-flowered ; the upper ones male. 

 Glumes beardlefs."— On the banks of lakes Champlain 

 and St. Laurence ; perennial, flowering in July. Of humble 

 ftature, with llender, branched, floating_/?«mj. Leaves float- 

 ing, linear, flat. Spikes briftle-fhaped ; the lower ones 

 female. All the glumes are deilitute of awns. Michaux, 

 Purjh. 



5. Z. tenejris. Land Wild-Rice. Linn. Sp. PI. 1408. 

 Willd. n. 5. ( Katou-Tsjolam ; Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 12. 

 t. 60. Raii Hill. PI. V. 3. 617.) — Panicle nearly fimple. — 

 Native of fandy ground, on the coaft of Malabar. Stems 

 round, leafy, jointed. Leaves long and narrow, green, 

 rigid, fliarply pointed. Floiverflalhs flender, from the 

 fheaths of the leaves. Glumes leafy, bearing round, blackifh, 

 glafTy iuds, (we preinme feeds). Thefe bruifed with the 

 juice of Betle-nut, and applied to the tongue, are fuppofed 

 to cure the thrulh to which children are fubjeft. Ray. We 

 have feen no fpecimen. Linna;us defcribed this fpecies from 

 the Horlus Malabaricus alone, and we prefume its genus 

 may, at lead, be doubtful. 



ZIZDRA, in Geography, a town of Ruflla, in the go- 

 vernment of Kaluga ; 60 miles S.W. of Kaluga. N. lat. 

 53° 43'. E. long. 34° 54'. 



ZIZERIA, a word ufed by Apicius, and feme other 

 authors, to exprefs the inteftiiies of fowls of the gallinaceous 

 kind, often ufed in decoftions for glyllers, &c. 



ZIZERS, or ZiTZERS, in Geography, a town of the 

 Grifons, in the Cadee league ; 6 miles N. of £oire. 



ZIZEVON, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 

 fiftan ; 23 miles E.S.E. of Schiras. 



ZIZIPHORA, in Botany, a mongrel name, compofed, 

 as it is faid, of Zizi, an Indian word, and ffji, to bear ; but 

 what is meant by Z/'zi, we are not informed. Morifon ap- 

 pears to have received from Aleppo one of the fpecies of 

 this genus, under the name of Zizforum, and Linnaeus, 



with a flight correftion, adopted it Linn. Gen. 16. 



Schreb. 21. Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 123. Vahl Enum. v. i. 

 216. Mart. Mill. Ditt. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. 49. 

 Sm. Prodr. Fl. Grasc. Sibth. v. 1.12. JulT. iii. Poiret 

 in Lamarck Did. v. 8. 865. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 18. 

 Gsrtn. t. 66. — Clafs and order, Diandria Monogynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Verticillat!£, Linn. Labiattc, Julf. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, tubular, 

 cyhndrical, very long, ftriated, briltly, with five minute 

 marginal teeth, and bearded in the orifice. Cor. of one 

 petal, ringent : tube cylindrica', the length of the calyx : 

 limb minute ; its upper lip ovate, flat, reflexed, undivided ; 

 lower fpreading, broadell, in three round equal fegments. 

 Stam. Filaments two, fimple, fpreading, about the length 

 of the corolla ; anthers oblong, diftant. Pifl. Germen fu- 

 perior, four-cleft ; ftyle brilUe-fliaped, the length of the 

 corolla ; ftigma cloven, pointed, inflexed. Peric. none, 

 except the calyx remaining unchanged, a little gibbous at 

 the bafe. Seeds four, oblong, obtufe, gibbous at one fide, 

 angular at the other, very much ftiorter than the calyx. 



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Eir. Ch. Corolla ringent ; its upper lip reflexed, flatv 

 undivided. Calyx thread-lhaped. Seeds four. 



The plants of this genus are flender, generally aromatic 

 herbs, or diminutive (hrubs, of humble growth, with the 

 habit of Thymus, or CUnopodium; but diftinguifhed by their 

 long and flender calyx, as well as almoft capillary tube of 

 the corolla, even more than by having only two Jlamens. 

 Their texture is hard and rigid, and they inhabit dry funny 

 fituations. The leaves are oppofite and undivided. Flowers 

 whorled or capitate, red or purphfli. Root moftly annual ; 

 fometimes perennial, and rather woody. 



1. Z. capitata. Oval-leaved Ziziphora. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 31. Mant. 317. Willd. n. I. Vahl n. 1. Ait. n. i. Sm, 

 Fl. Grasc. Sibth. v. I. 10. t. 13. {Thymus humilis latifo- 

 lius ; Buxb. Cent. 3. 28. t. 51. f. I. Chnopodium fiftulo- 

 fum pumilum Ind. Occid. fummo caule floridum ; Pluk. 

 Phyt. t. 164. f. 4.) — Flowers fafciculated, terminal. Leaves 

 ovate. — Native of Syria, Tauria, and the ifle of Cyprus. 

 A hardy annual, flowering in July and Auguft, fometimes 

 kept in botanic gardens. Miller feems to be the firft perfon 

 who raifed this plant in England. The root is fibrous, 

 branched and zigzag. Stem ereft, three or four inches 

 high, when cultivated much taller, fquare, leafy, ufually 

 with two oppofite fpreading branches, befides the central 

 part, clothed all over with fine, fhort, curved, hoary 

 pubefcence. Leaves hardly an inch long, entire, hoary, 

 roughifh at the edges, furrowed with parallel veins. Foot- 

 Jlalks one-eighth as long as the leaves. BraSeas four at the 

 top of each branch, nearly feffile, like the leaves, but larger, 

 more pointed and fringed ; fomewhat heart-fliaped at the 

 bafe ; about the length of the flowers, which are numerous 

 in each head. Calyx half an inch long, furrowed, briftly, a 

 little wavy, with flender, (harp, purple teeth. Corolla with 

 a white, downy, zigzag tube, and pale purphfli limb. Sta- 

 mens prominent, about as long as the lower lip, with blueifli 

 anthers. We fcarcely perceive any aromatic flavour in the 

 dried plant. Plukenet was much mifinformed as to this 

 Ziziphora being of Weft Indian origin. 



2. Z. hifpanica. Spanifli Ziziphora. Linn. Syft. Nat. 

 ed. 10. 853. Sp. PI. 31. Amoen. Acad. v. 4. 263. Willd. 

 n. 2. Vahl n. 2. Ait. n. 2. — Flowers axillary. Leaves 

 obovate, pointed, many-ribbed. — Gathered by Loefling in 

 Spain. Root annual. The flem is three or four inches high, 

 crofs-branched and bufliy, downy with minute recurved 

 hairs. Branches leafy. Leaves a quarter or one-third of 

 an inch long, fringed ; tapering at the bafe ; marked on 

 both fides with confpicuous glandular dots : the lower ones 

 fmaller, and fomewhat crenate. Flowers two or three to- 

 gether, feflile. Calyx tapering upwards, ftrongly furrowed, 

 hifpid, about the length of the leaves. Corolla externally 

 downy. Lmnsus confidercd the branches as fpikes and the 

 leaves as bradeas, but we can fee no more reafon for this 

 than in any of the following fpecies. The leaves in the 

 original fpecimen ftill retain a powerful fmell of Penny- 

 royal. 



3. Z. fpicata. Spiked Ziziphora. « An. Hift. Nat. 



Madr. v. 4. 254." Vahl n. 3 " Flowers in racemofe fpikep, 



imbricated. Brafteas ovate, acute, ribbed. Leaves lance- 

 olate, fomewhat toothed." — Native of Spain. Annual. 

 Stem from ten to eighteen inches high, throwing out from 

 the bafe a branch or two as tall as itfelf. Leaves ribbed ; 

 the lower ones ftalked ; the upper feffile. Flowers feveral, 

 on fhort ftalke. Handing near together. BraHeas broad, 

 entire, acute, fringed. Perhaps a mere variety of Z, hif- 

 panica. Yet it feems to differ in having the ft^em leaves 

 lanceolate, narrower than thofe that accompany the flowers, 

 which are ovate, not obovate. Vahl. We have feen no 



fpecimen ; 



