ORIGANUM. 
of five are 3; in others two-lipped, the upper lip large and 
undivided, lower {carcely dilcernible ; in a few {pecies it 
is Solis 
I. peyptias um. Egyptian Marjoram. Linn. SP. Pl. 
822. (Zatarhendi ; Alpin. pee ed. 1, t. 40. € 95:) 
i Spikes leaflefs A 
n the fummer. ’m is bufhy and 
pcre oppofite, ftalked, orbicular, entire, abrule, erie 
an inch wide, tapering at the bafe, flelhy, downy on 
both — highly fragrant when rubbed, with a nutmeg- 
like . Flowers {mall, whitifh, ‘in dente. cluftered, ter- 
min, ica obtufe fpikes. 
‘0. Di . Dittany of Crete. Linn. Sp. Pl. 823. 
Curt. Mag. t. 298.—Lower leaves woolly. Spikes drooping. 
—Native of rocks in Crete, nor did the ou seg a b- 
thorp find it in any other place in the Leva 
fhrubby. Leaves ovate, wees with loofe wool, a 
but not fo fweet-fcented a . Involucrum lax, 
purplifh, fmooth, dotted naam Rapa points. This, the 
celebrated Sens of the Gree 
rha oe as any other exotic. 
. O. Tato Dittany of Amore: Sibth. in 
Ait. Hort. ed. 1. v. 2. 311. ed. 2. v.3. 412. Willd. n 
ndr. Repof. t. 537. (O. Diétamni cretici facie, folio cate, 
nunc ‘illo, nunc glabro; Tourn. Cor. 13. Voy. v. 1. 91, 
t. aves let fringed. Spikes oblong, erect. 
Corolla ins ative of rocks in the ifland of 
{mooth, except at their edges ; /pikes longer, ere@t, and o 
very numerous flowers, whofe corolla has a pur, an 
effential mark diftin@iion between this cies, which 
therefore ought to have been called calcaratum, and the iaft. 
4. O. fipyleum. Dittany of Mount Sipylus. Linn. Sp 
Pl. 823. (O. montis Sipyli; Herm. Lugd : 
ovate, acute, all fmooth. 
in our Laas 
with rather glaucous = leaves, a ioe folitary, lax, 
ores. purple 
5. O. creticum. eae a 7 Sp. Pl. 823. 
(O. Cate, Tourn. Inft. Genuina grecorum hyf- 
fopus; Lob. Ic. eaves Mets uearly entire, 
with roughifh veins. Spikes cluftered, oblong, erect. Leaves 
of the involucrum ovate, acute, membranous, fmooth.— 
Native of the fouth of Europe; a hardy perennial with us, 
flowering in July and Augult. This has much the habit of 
the Common Marjoram of Britain, hereafter defcribed, but 
the ne flender Spikes diftinguith it, both from that ond the 
follow: O. creticum is the W ild i ola or Marjoram, 
of Diofesrides aud of the modern Greeks 
6. O. fmyrnaum. Smyrna Marjoram. Linn. Sp. PI. 
$23. Sm. Fi. Gree. Sibth. t. 571, a “(O. glan- 
dulofum ; Desfont. Atlant. v. 2. 27. Willd. n. 11.)— 
Leaves ovate, ronghifh, nearly entire. Spikes nearly glo- 
bofe, obtufe, hairy, colle&ted into a corymbofe head.— 
Gathered by Wheeler and Sibthorp about Smyrna. 
latter found it alfo on heaths about Conftantinople. 
Turks call it Sater, the modern 
thus get rid o 
oO . ound, hairy pikes, cal 
lefted int into a broad-topped conyaibe tuft, mark the pla 
efore 
7. O. Be Sas au Winter Sweet Marjoram. Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 823. . Ic. 492. Matth. Valgr. Ger 
em. 666. ee ovate. Spikes elongated, ftalked, cluftered. 
Involucrum the length of the calyx.—Native of the fouth 
of Europe. Dr. ewes found it frequent on the dry 
hills of Greece. It has long been a hardy perennial in 
gardens, flowering from June to November, and is nearly 
related to the next, as well as to O. creticum. 
vulgare. Common Marjoram. Linn. Sp. Pl. 824. 
Curt. Lond. fafe. 5. t. 39. Engl, Bot. t. 1143. 
Med. Bot. t. 164. 
leaves no dou t as to his fynonym. We 
i deno 
Epi O. an 
Spike es ‘roundifh, panicled, 
cluttered, fmosth. Invo lucrum « ovate, longer than the calyx. 
—Native of Europe, in dry hilly places. With us it chiefly 
occurs in thickets, on chalk or limeftone, flowering in July 
and Auguft. The whole herb has a hot aromatic tafte a 
oo like thyme. ha 
cante ; ul. 
Majorana cretica, i folro, Villofa, fatureia odote co- 
rymbis majoribus albis ; Tourn. Cor. 13, b 
crowded {pikes, 
flrongly fringed. lant appears in Hudfon’s 
glica, but creo, veh onal meant appearing to 
be rather a variet 
10. O. Majorana. Sweet Knotted seibeo hui Linn. Sp. 
i a Zorn Ic. cus vulgatior ; Lob. 
98.)—Leaves hale, oe Gay downy, veshaee 
Seite roundifh, c a. downy, cluftered. — Nati ve 
@ 
0. ee a to usa variety ¢ 3 and 0. /yriacum, a 
Sp. Pl. 824, of which there is no ee in the Lin 
or Baakat herbarium, appears by Lobel’s Ic. 499, > be 
probably the fame f{pecies as that of which we are {peaking. 
O. Maru. Lavender Marjoram. Linn, S os 825. 
- Sibth. t. §73 unpublifhed. cretl- 
. Exot. t Majorana cretica -otundifolia, 
sored odore, aot ‘minoribus incanis, flore purpu- 
rafcente ; Tour, Cor. 12, rium. )— 
flender elegant {pecies, unknown in our gardens. 
are oe hoary, as are the /pikes. Corolla ae nae 
e know nothing of OQ. ciliatum, Willd. 
atl 
engal ; t. 38. £. ich figure 
by no means favours the idea of its belonging ke ce genus 
in queftio 
GANU ini, in Gardening, affords plants of the herba- 
ceous, annual, and under-fhrubby perennial kinds, of which 
2 the 
