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fpecimen ; but this defcription feems to make the in- 

 florefcence of the prefent fpecies really fpiked rather than 

 whorled, though it does not alter our opinion as to the 

 laft. 



4. Z. tenuior. Spear-leaved Ziziphora. Linn. Sp. PI. 31. 

 Willd. n. 3. Vahl n. 4. Ait. n. 3. (Acinos fyriaca, folio 

 raucronato, capfuhs hirfutis ; Morif. v. 3. 404. left. 1 1 . 1. 1 9. 

 f . 3 ; alfo A. fyriaca, tenuiore foho, capfulis hirtis ; ibid, 

 f. 4. ) — Flowers axillary. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, taper- 

 pointed, acute, entire. — Native of Syria. Sent to Morifon 

 from Aleppo, by the Rev. Dr. Huntington. We prefume, 

 from a remark of Morifon under a plant immediately follow- 

 ing, that the two Tarieties here indicated, as well as perhaps 

 a third, with a fmoother calyx, his f. 2, were all fent him 

 in feed, and that he raifed the plants. If fo the introduc- 

 tion of this fpecies (hould be dated before the time of 

 Miller. The root is annual. Sum a fpan high, with many 

 fquare, downy, leafy branches. Leaves an inch long, nearly 

 feffile, ftrongly ribbed, downy, dotted, entire, more or lefs 

 fringed with ftrong white hairs. Flowers ftalked, moftly in 

 pairs, altogether axillary. Calyx about half the length of 

 the leaves, hoary with fine recurved pubefcence, more or 

 lefs intermixed with long, prominent, briftly hairs ; its lower 

 part fwelling much, as the feeds ripen. Corolla pale, hairy 

 externally, with a dilated throat. 



^. "Z. acinoides. Bafil-leaved Ziziphora. Linn. Sp. PI. 31. 

 Willd. n. 4. Vahl n. 5. Ait. n. 4. (Clinopodium fupinum 

 incanum ; Amm. Ruth. 51.) — Flowers axillary. Calyx 

 hairy. Leaves ovate, ftalked, fomewhat ferrated. — Native 

 of Siberia. Introduced into England by the late Dr. 

 WiUiam Pitcairn, in 1786. Mr. Alton marks it as peren- 

 nial. The Jiems are diffufe, branched, bluntly quadrangular, 

 finely downy. Leaves fcarcely aromatic, though dotted 

 with pellucid fpots, many-ribbed, rough-edged, and fome- 

 what fringed, from half to three-quarters of an inch long, 

 on footjlalks about half or a third as much. Flowers all 

 axillary, three, four, or more, together ; on Aowny Jlalks, 

 half the length of the footftalks. Calyx cyhndrical, ftrongly 

 ribbed, not downy, but befet with numerous, prominent, 

 horizontal hairs. Corolla hairy, its limb larger than in the 

 firft and fecond fpecies, fcarcely fo long as the third, of a 

 hght purple, or hlac, efpecially the lip. Anthers large, 

 ovate, purple. 



6. Z. taurica. Narrow-leaved Ziziphora. Bieberft. Taur.- 

 Caucaf. V. 1. 18. — Flowers axillary. Leaves linear -lanceo- 

 late, ftriated, obtufe, entire. — Native of mount Caucafus 

 and its neighbourhood, among lime-ftone rocks, or about 

 the ftony banks of torrents, flowering in June and July. We 

 received fpecimens of this, and all the following fpecies, 

 from the Chevalier de Steven. The root is annual, long, 

 tapering and zigzag. Stems one or more, fcarcely divided, 

 except at the bottom, afcending, near a fpan long, not 

 compofed of oppofite branches croffing each other, as in 

 Z. tenuior, to which the author of the Flora Taurico-Cau- 

 cafica confiders this plant very nearly alhed. Without ad- 

 verting to the greater fize of the corolla, which is very likely 

 to vary, and to the pubefcence of the calyx, which certainly 

 does, the leaves appear to be much narrower and more 

 obtufe ; not acute or fpinous-pointed. The whole herb 

 fmells ftrongly, but pleafantly, of Penny-royal, and its leaves 

 are dotted as in the tenuior. One of our fpecimens has 

 broader leaves than the other, and rather fhakes our opinion 

 of its being a diftinft fpecies. 



7. Z. ferpyllacea. Thyme-headed Ziziphora. Bieberft. 

 Taur.-Caucaf. v. i. 18. (Serpyllum orjentale, folio pulegii 

 vulgaris; Toum. Cor. 13.) 



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B- Bieberft. ibid. ( Serpyllum orientale, folio puWii cer- 

 vini; Tourn. Cor. 13. Herb. Toum.) 



Clufters terminal, capitate, fomewhat leafy. Leaves 

 lanceolate, naked, even, obtufe. Stems rather fhrubby, 

 afcending. — Native of the grafl"y hills of Caucafus, flower- 

 ing from June to Auguft. /S of open fields in Georgia, 

 about Teflis ; communicated by the Chevalier de Steven. 

 The Jlems are rather woody, their branches hoary, with fine, 

 recurved, denfe hairs. Leaves fmooth, with copious pel- 

 lucid dots, and the flavour of Penny-royal. They have a 

 mid-rib, but no lateral ribs, veins, or furrows. Flowers 

 ftalked, crowded at the fummit of each branch into a clofe 

 tuft, fome of the lowermoft being axillary. Flower-JlalLt 

 round, clothed with fineft poflible hoary pubefcence, as are 

 alfo the ftrong ribs of the calyx, whofe teeth are fringed 

 with long white hairs. Limb of the corolla rather large, 

 and Jlamens prominent. The variety ft which is all we have 

 feen, is faid to differ only in having narrower, perfeftly 

 entire, leaves, which are alfo more crowded than in a. If 

 there be any affinity between the two varieties, neither of 

 them can poffibly be the Z. ferpyllacea of Curt. Mag. t. 906. 

 See the following fpecies. 



8. Z. dafyantha. Hair)'-headed Ziziphora. Bieberft. 

 Taur.-Caucaf. v. i. 18. (Z. ferpyllacea; Sims in Curt. 

 Mag. t. 906. Ait. n. 5. Z. Poufchkini ; Sims in Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1093. ^^^- "• 6.) — Clufters terminal, capitate, 

 fomewhat leafy. Calyx denfely hairy. Leaves ovate, ob- 

 tufe, notched. Stems procumbent. — Native of mountainous 

 parts of Georgia, towards Caucafus, flowering from July 

 to September. Introduced into this country by Mr. Lod- 

 diges. The root is perennial, and rather woody, as is the 

 lower part of the fpreading, nearly proftrate, hairy, purpUfti 

 Jlems. Leaves ftalked, about a quarter of an inch long, 

 roundifh-ovate, ribbed and veiny, diftantly ferrated, dotted, 

 roughifh with (hort hairs, efpecially the ribs beneath. 

 Flowers numerous, crowded into very denfe oval heads. 

 CaJyx in our fpecimens quite concealed by very long, denfe, 

 fpreading, hoary hairs, much more remarkable than in any 

 other known fpecies. Limb of the corolla rather large. 

 Stamens more or lefs prominent, though variable in length, 

 with large anthers. The colour of the Jlowers may very 

 well vary between the two extremes reprefented in the Bo- 

 tanical Magazine. The fmell of the herb may alfo be variable. 

 We cannot but think the original opinion of our judicious 

 friend Dr. Sims far preferable to that which induced him to 

 feparate the above two plants. Left we ihould be wrong 

 however, it is proper to announce that our fpecimen of Z. 

 dafyantha, from the Chevaher de Steven, has little or no fcent, 

 and agrees beft with Z. Poufchkini. The Flora Taurico- 

 Caucafica fpeaks of a variety, found in the elevated fields of 

 Georgia, in which the leaves are rather narrower, and the 

 hairs of the calyx ftiorter, as well as fewer. The author 

 efteems this to be clofely related to Z. hifpanica, fee n. 2, of 

 which perhaps he had not examined an authentic fpecimen. 

 No two fpecies of this genus, or any other, can be more 

 diftinft, than the Linnsean hifpanica, and the plant of which 

 we are treating. 



ZIZIPHUS, perhaps Zi-z-ipha of Pliny, though 

 reckoned by him among the kinds of apples; certainly 

 Ziziphus of Columella ; as well as of Cafpar Bauhin and 

 others of the earher modern botanifts ; '(^'r^ of the modem 

 Greeks. Shaw, in his Specimen Phylographis Africans, 

 n. 631, traces this word to the African or Moorifh name of 

 the fame fruit Afaffa ; but its Arabic appellation, Zi%oltf, 

 comes much nearer.— JufT. Gen. 380. Tourn. t. 403. 

 Lamarck Did. v. ?. 316. lUuftr. t. 185. Pur/h 188. 

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