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pedicles. We have but one fpecies of this 
plant, viz, 
* Cardiaca,, R. 239, P. 41, 42. Marruhium Car- 
diaca dictum,, forte i. ‘Theophrafti,, C. 230. Mo- 
therwort. 
A decoflion of the leaves of Motherwort, fweeten’d with fu - 
gar, is good for the palpitation of the heart, and to prevent 
fwooning. The powder, given in wine, to the quantity of a 
dram, is commended as a prefenc remedy to expedite the birth. 
Clinopodium, Wild Bafil. The empalemcnts 
are hairy, long, tubulous, and divided into five 
fegments ; and a great number of them grow 
together in a heap : The creft is round, eredt^ 
and bifid : The beard is cut into three parts : 
The flowers grow in thick whorls, clofe to the 
{talks : The feeds are oblong. We have but 
one fpecies of this plant, viz. 
Clinopodium Origano fimiky R. 239, C. 224. A- 
I cinos,, G. 548. five Clinopodium majus,, P.22. Great 
! Wild Bafil. In hedges and thickets. The leaves 
I refemble thofe of Wild Marjoram : They ftand op- 
! pofite to one another at the knots, and are hairy on 
' both fides: The flowers grow clofe together in great 
i roundles, or whorls, and are of a purple colour^i 
i feveral of them rifing on one common pedicle. 
Lamium, Archangel, or Dead Nettle. The flower 
I is labiated : The creft is hollow like a fpoon j 
I but the beard is cut into two fegments, in the 
form of a heart ; and both end in chaps, which 
are brim’d, or edged : The empalement is tu- 
I bilious and long, and cut into five fegments • 
I The feeds are triangular. The fpecies are: 
I * i. Lamium alburn,^ R. 240, G. 567. vulgar e 
ij dhum feu Archangelicum flore albo^ P. 604. album 
\ non feetens folio oblongo,, C. 231. White Archan- 
gel, or Dead Nettle. By hedges, and on ditch 
banks. The leaves refemble tiiofe of Common 
Nettie, 
