Teucrium.'] 
LXIII. LABIATE. 
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mealy, with a basal sear,” and in T. Chamcedrys, “ roundish, a little 
compressed, with a basal apiculus, reddish.” Ann. N. H.( 1833) xi.p. 428. 
[The other Linnaean species of Thymus are referred to Calami nt ha. ] 
5. Origanum Linn. Marjoram. 
Spikes (or heads) of flowers somewhat 4-sided, resembling a 
catkin , imbricated with bracteus. Cal. equally 5-toothed (or 
2-lipped). Cor. with the upper lip erect, nearly plane; lower 
one patent, trifid. Stamens diverging, connectivum subtriangular. 
— Name: opog, a hill, and yaroc, joy ; from the dry hilly places 
of which the species are the ornament. 
1. 0. vulgdre L. ( common M.)\ heads of flowers roundish 
panicled crowded, bracteas ovate longer than the calyx, calyx 
equally 5-toothed, hairy in the throat, leaves stalked broadly 
ovate obtuse entire or toothed. E. B. t. 1 143. 
Dry hilly and bushy places, not unfrequent. If.. 7 — 9. — Stems 
1 foot high. Flowers purple ; bracteas tinged with the same colour. 
Fragrant and aromatic. 
[ Origanum Onites L., or Pot Marjoram, is mentioned in Ray’s Sy- 
nopsis, p. 236, as having been found by Mr. Dale “on the left hand 
of the road from Braintree to Raine (Essex), beyond the bridge ; ” but 
it cannot be indigenous there, being entirely a Mediterranean plant. 
The calyx is cleft in front; its upper lip is large and orbicular, lower 
nearly wanting.] 
Tribe III. Ajugoide-e. Corolla irregular ; upper lip abbre- 
viate or apparently wanting. Stamens much exserted, duly * 
namous, parallel , ascending ; the two lower ones the longest. 
(Gen. 6, 7.) 
6. Teucrium Linn. Germander. 
Cal. tubular, 5-toothed, nearly equal or 2-lipped. Cor. with 
the upper lip bipartite; lower one patent, 3-fid. Siam, much 
exserted. Celts of the anthers confluent, spreading. — Named 
from an ancient king of Troy, called Teucer , who is said to have 
first employed this plant medicinally. 
1. T. Scoroddnia L. (Wood G .) ; leaves oblong-ovate cordate 
at the base petiolate downy crenate green on both sides, floral 
ones small about the length of the pedicels, flowers in lateral and 
terminal one-sided racemes, calyx sub-bilabiate, upper lip ovate 
entire lower 4-toothed, tube of the corolla exserted, stem erect. 
E. B. 1. 1543. 
Woods and dry stony places, frequent. If.. 7, 8. — Stems 1 — 2 ft. 
high. Leaves very much wrinkled. Flowers yellowish-white. Slam. 
purplish-red. The plant is extremely bitter, and has been sometimes 
substituted for hops. 
