ioo WILD FLOWERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 
6. Corn Woundwort. (Staehys arven'sis. Linn.) — A very different species from the 
others with very small flowers, pale pink spotted with white, in clusters of only 2-6 in the 
axils of the leaves, forming loose leafy spike-like clusters ; the corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, 
the lips scarcely rising above it. [As described in the genus Staehys.] The stem weak, prostrate, 
4-18 inches long, slender, branched from the base, rather hairy, only the flower-spikes erect ; and the 
leaves small, all stalked except the very smallest at the top of the flower-spike, egg-shaped, blunt, 
scalloped (crenate), and hairy. 
Fairly common. In fields, cultivated ground, and waste places ; common in England, rare in 
Scotland, local in Ireland. April — November. Annual. 
7. Tale Annual Woundwort. (St&chys an nua. Linn.) — This species, which very 
probably was introduced with seed from abroad, has been found in several places in Kent. 
It has yellow flowers and narrow lance-shaped scalloped leaves. 
IX. WHITE HOREHOUND. (MARRUBIUM. Linn.) — Flowers small, in dense, many-flowered, 
sometimes spherical clusters in the axils of the leaves (false whorls). Calyx of 5 sepals, united 
into a tube with 5 or xo ribs, and separating into 5 or 10 curved-back spiny teeth, inserted below 
the seedcase (inferior ) ; corolla of 5 petals, united into a tube and separating into 2 lips (bilabiate), 
the upper lip erect, narrow, and 2-lobed, and the lower spreading and 3-lobed, the middle lobe 
being broad and notched, inserted below the seedcase ; stamens 4, in unequal pairs (didynamous), 
included in the corolla-tube, on w T hich they are inserted ; carpels 2, united into a 4-celled seedcase 
and a long style divided at the apex into 2 stigmas ; fruit of 4 little nuts (cocca). Herbs, often 
woolly, with square stems and wrinkled (rugose) opposite leaves. 
Common White Horehound. (Marrfibium vulgAre. Linn.) — The only British 
species. As just described. The flowers are very unnoticeable, | inch long, white, in clusters, 
which become in fruit round and spiny, in the axils of the leaves ; the calyx is io-toothed and 
hairy ; the stems are 1-1 \ feet high, branched, covered with a white woolly down ; and the leaves 
are stalked, roundish, deeply scalloped (crenate), and covered with white woolly down, giving 
the whole plant a greyish-green appearance almost whitish towards the top. [Plate 34. 
Rare, rather local. On hillsides and waste places ; throughout the southern counties of England, 
very rare in Scotland and Ireland. July — October. Perennial. 
X. MARJORUM. (ORIGANUM. Linn.) — Flowers lilac, rose-colour, or white, with a coloured 
bract at the base of each flower, in compact, dense, branched clusters. Calyx of 5 sepals, united 
into a tube with 10-13 ribs and separating into 5 equal teeth, inserted below the seedcase 
(inferior ) ; corolla of 5 petals, united into a tube, rather indistinctly 2-lipped (bilabiate), the upper 
lip erect and straight, the lower 3-lobed with ^nearly equal lobes, inserted below the seedcase 
(hypogynous) ; stamens 4, in 2 unequal pairs (didynamous), diverging, protruding, inserted on the 
corolla-tube (epi-petalous) ; carpels 2, united into a 4-celled seedcase and a long style divided at 
the apex into 2 stigmas ; fruit of 4 little nuts (cocca). Herbs with square stems and usually 
entire leaves which are always opposite. 
Common Marjoram. (Origanum vulg&re. Linn.)— The only British species. As 
just described. The clusters of rose-coloured or rarely white flowers with their dark red-tinged 
bracts are crowded into dense heads terminating the main stem and branches, and as the stem is 
branched from the top a much branched cluster (corymbose cyme) is formed, differing consider- 
ably from the almost unbranched flowering stem usual in this order. The stems are usually 1-2 - 
feet high and are erect and rather hairy ; and the leaves are stalked, more or less broadly egg- 
