PL ex. cor . 
32. LARIATiE. 138. Origanum. 381 
brownish purple; corolla purplish. — Plant warm, aromatic; 
dried leaves make a good tea ; essential oil very acrid, used 
as a caustic to rotten teeth and horses : tops dye purple. 
0. rufescens . Leaves ovate, lanceolate ; spikes topshape ; 
bractece dull purplish brown. 
Origanum Onifes, Raii Syn. 236,2, not of Linnaeus. 
Marjorana major Anglica, Ger. em. 664,2. 
Majorana latifolia, sive major Anglica, Park. 12. 
Pot marjoram. Winter marjoram . 
Cultivated for a potherb. 
XXL 139. MAJORANA. Brunsfel. Marjoram . 
Calyx 2-iipped ; mouth oblique, when fruitbearing naked ; 
upper lip large; lower lip 2-iobed ; corolla lipped; tube 
compressed; galea upright, nicked; lip 3-cut; lobes nearly 
equal; seeds roundish. — Flowers in dense spikes; bractece 
ovate, imbricate, 1 -flowered ; spikes 4-sided, terminal or 
axillary. 
1. Majorana tenuifolia . Fine-leaved marjoram. 
Stem undershrubby ; leaves petioled, elliptical, slightly 
serrated, blunt, tomentose; spikes roundish, many, glome- 
rate, peduncled ; bractece pointed. 
Marjorana tenuifolia, Ger. em. 664, S. 
Origanum Majorana /?, Lin. S. P. 825. 
Origanum majoranoides, Willd. S. P. 3, 137. „ 
Majorana ovatifolia, Stokes Bot. M. M. 352. 
Marjoram gentle. 
Cultivated for an aromatic pot-herb ; peren. ; June, July. 
2. Majorana vulgaris . Common marjoram . 
Root annual ; stem herbaceous ; leaves petioled, elliptical, 
blunt, nearly bald, edge not nicked ; spikes roundish, in 
threes, compact, peduncled. 
Marjorana major, Ger. em. 684, 1. 
Majorana vulgaris, Park. 33. 
Origanum Majorana, Lin. S. P. 825. 
Majorana ovatifolia, Stokes Bot . M. M. 350. 
Origanum odorum, Salisb. Prod. 85. 
Great sweet marjoram. Fine marjoram. 
Cultivated for an aromatic pot-herb; peren.; June, July. 
Stem upright, downy; hairs drooping; branches few at 
the bottom; upper braches spreading, flower-bearing; brae- 
tece ovate, longer than the calyx. 
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