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DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Spanilh Horehound. 
Meirriihium dl/um calycihus patsntibus. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The fta!l<: is fqiiare, upright, and two feet 
high, very little branched, and of a whitifli colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are of a whicifh 
colour, and thick fubftance ; they are roundifh, 
and very lightly indented. 
The flowers grow in the bofoms of all the 
upper leaves, and furround the llalks : tliey ar- 
fmall and white. 
The cups are very wide at the mouth, and the 
prickles upon them are ftrait ; not hooked, as in 
the commcn horehound. 
It is not uncommon in Spain and Italy, and 
flowers in June. 
Boccone calls it Marnihiiim fuhrotundo fclio. 
GENUS XVI. 
M O 'I' H E R W O R T. 
C A R D I /I C A. 
'T'^HE Rower is formed of a fingle petal, and is labiated. Tlie tubular part is flender ; the upper 
lip is long, and of an arched form, and rounded at the end ; the lower lip is turned back, and 
is divided into three equal, or nearly equal fegraents. The cup is oblong, tubular, angulatcd, and 
formed of a fmgle leaf The feeds are four, and they ftand naked in the cup. 
Linnasus places this among the i)dynamia gprniiffcrmm, as the preceding 
it to be a dillinft 
name. 
but he does not allow 
oenus. He joins it with the konurv.s^ and takes away its received and anticnc 
Motherwort. 
Ciirdiac.i. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, 
brown fibres. 
The Hrfl leaves are placed on long footflalks ; 
and they are large, broad, and (hort : they have 
ihrec principal divifions, and their colour is a 
dark green. 
The ftalk is fquare, hollow, upright, branched, 
and a yarH high. 
The leaves on this are placed in pairs ; and 
they are oblong, indented at the edges, and 
lliarp"! ointed. 
The flowers are fmall, and have a pur, liHi 
tinge : they grow in thick tufts at the joints. 
The fecds'are brown, and rounded on one fide. 
It is common in waff e places, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Marruhium cardiaca dO^um. 
Linn^us, heaiihvus foliis cnulinis trUsbiS lan- 
ceolalis. 
It is a good medicine in hyfterick cafes. It 
promotes the menfes, and is very ufcful againlf 
fits. The bell way of giving it is in lorm of a 
conferve, made of the frefli tops. It may be alfo 
taken in way of tea; but that way it is unplea- 
fant. 
GENUS XVII. 
TUFTED BASIL. 
C L I N 0 P O D ] U M. 
THE flower is formed of a fingle petal, and is of the labiated kind. The tubular part is (liort, 
and it fpieads out into a mouth : the upper lip ftands ereilifj and is hollowed, obtufe at the 
end, and nipped in the middle : the lower lip is divided into three fcgments ; and of thefe the middle 
one is larf^eft. The cup of each flower is tubular, a little crooked, and divided into two lips: bur, 
befide thefe, there is a kind of general cup or covering to the whole clufter of flowers growing to- 
gether ; and this is formed of a vail multitude of hairs. The feeds are four alter every flower; 
and they fl:and naked in the cup. 
Linnaius places this among the iidjnamia fymnofpmnia ; the flower having two longer and two 
fliorter threads, and the feeds Handing naked. Our Englifli name is a very imperfeft one; for which 
reafun it is more proper to ufe the Latin, chwpodium. 
Great Wild Bafil. 
Clinopodium t^ajus. 
The root is fibrous, and runs a great way un- 
der the furface. 
The firft leaves are placed on flendcr foot- 
flalks ; and they are roundifll, obtufe, hairy, and 
of a pale green. 
The flalks are fquare and weak : they are a foot 
or more in length, but fctcc able to fupport 
themfelves ; they are not much branched -, and 
their colour is a pale green. The leaves are placed 
in pairs on the ftalk ; and they are fliort, broad, 
obtufe, and a little indented. 
The flowers are of a pale red. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cliiicpodium origmo find'- 
Others, Acinos. 
Its virtues are not known. 
GENU S 
