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136. Ballote. 32. LABIATE. 
PL ex. cor. 
Stem branched ; hairs recurved ; leaves petioled ; whirls 
bracteated; bracteae bristlelike, fringed, shorter than the 
calyx; calyx fnnnelshape; teeth very short, awned; corolla 
purple ; galea yellow ; odour acrid, pungent. — Decoction of 
the herb useful in hypochondriacal and hysterical diseases. 
XIX. 137. MARRUBIUM. Pliny. Horehound . 
Calyx hypocrateriform, ridged, 10-streaked, regular, 
10-toothed; 5 alternate teeth smaller; corolla lipped; tube 
as long as the calyx; galea linear, straight, 2-cut; lip 3-cut; 
middle lobe reverse heartshape. — Flowers in whirls, axil- 
lary ; whirls sessile, many-flowered, bracteated. 
Marrubium vulgare . Common horehound. 
Stem upright; leaves rather round, ovate, toothed, 
wrinkled, veined; teeth of the calyx bristlelike, hooked. 
Marrubium album, Raii Syn. 239, 1 ; Ger. em. 693, 1 ; Rivinus Mon. 66. 
Marrubium album vulgare, Park. 44. 
Marrubium vulgare, Lin. S. P. 816. 
Marrubium uncinatum, Stokes Bot. M.M. 355. 
White horehound. 
Ruins and waysides ; perennial ; July. 
Stem woolly ; leaves petioled, white, woolly beneath ; 
whirls very hairy ; bractece bristlelike ; corolla white. 
XX. 138. ORIGANUM. Theophrastus. Organy. 
Calyx cylindrical, 5-toothed; teeth unequal; mouth 
closed with hairs ; corolla lipped ; tube compressed ; galea 
upright, nicked : lip 3-cut, nearly equal : seed roundish. — 
Flowers densely spiked; bractece ovate, imbricate,! -flowered; 
spikes many, terminal or axillary. 
Origanum vulgare. Common organy. 
Leaves ovate ; spike roundish, panicled ; panicles conglo- 
merate ; bractece ovate, coloured, as long as the calyx. 
Origanum vulgare spontaneum, Raii Syn. 236, 1, 
Origanum Anglicum, Ger. em. 666, 4. 
Origanum, Rivinus Mon. 60. 
Majorana sylvestris, Park. 12. 
Origanum vulgare, Lin. S. P. 821. 
Origanum floridum, Salisb. Prod. 85. 
English wild marjoram. Grove marjoram. 
Chalk-fields and hedges; perennial; July and August. 
Stem hirsute: hairs turned back; leaves ovate, slightly 
and rarely serrated ; spikes crowded, ovate ; bractece deep 
