is divided into three almoft equal parts ^ they are of 
a pale flefh colour, and appear in July, and the feeds 
ripen in autumn. 
The fecond f<?rt grows naturally in Crete ; this rifes 
with a fhrubby (talk about two feet high, dividing in- 
to feveral (lender ligneous branches, which are gar 
nifhed with fmall, ftiff, oval leaves, ending in acute 
points, which emit an aromatic odour when bruifed. 
The flowers grow in thick whorls round the ftalks 
toward the top •, they have Ihort, hairy, five-pointed 
empalements •, the tube of the petal is longer than the 
cup, and the flower is Ihaped like that of the former, 
but it is larger and of a brighter red colour. This 
plant flowers in June, July, and Auguft, but rarely 
ripens its feeds in England. 
The third fort is well known in the gardens by the 
title of Winter Savory j this is a perennial plant, 
which grows naturally in the fouth of France and 
Italy, but is here cultivated in gardens both for food 
and phyfic. This hath a fhrubby, low, branching 
ftalk ; the branches rife about a foot high ; they are 
ligneous, and are garnifhed with two very narrow 
leaves about an inch long at each joint ; they are ftiff, 
and ftand oppoflte ; from the bafe of thefe come out 
a few fmall leaves in clufters. The flowers grow from 
the wings of the leaves upon fhort foot-ftalks ; they 
are fhaped like thofe of the firft fort, but are larger and 
of a paler colour. Thefe appear in June, and are 
fucceeded by feeds which ripen in autumn, but the 
plants will continue feveral years, efpecially if they 
are planted in a poor dry foil. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in North America •, 
this hath a perennial root, but the ftalk is annual, 
and rifes about a foot and a half high ; it is ftiff, an- 
gular, and branches out toward the top. The leaves 
are ftiff, fpear-fhaped, and pointed ; they are about 
an inch and a half long, and a quarter of an inch 
broad in the middle, pointed at both ends, and have 
a ftrong fcent of Pennyroyal ; the ftalks are termi- 
nated by white flowers colleded into globular heads. 
Thefe appear in July, but are feldom fucceeded by 
feeds in England. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in Spain and fome parts 
of Italy ; this hath very (lender ligneous ftalks which 
grow ered, about nine inches high, fending out two 
or three (lender fide branches toward the bottom ; 
thefe are garnifhed with narrow, fpear-fhaped, ftiff 
leaves, which are placed oppoflte. The flowers grow 
in whorls above each other for more than half the 
length of the ftalk, they feem as if they were bundled 
together. The flowers are fmall and white ; they ap- 
pear in July, but the feeds feldom ripen here ; the 
whole plant has a pleafant aromatic fcent. 
The feventh fort grows naturally in Crete ; this hath 
very (lender ligneous ftalks, which rife near a foot and 
a half high, garnifhed with fmall, oval, ftiff, acute- 
pointed leaves, whofe borders are reflexed. The 
flowers grow in roundifh whorls upon foot-ftalks, 
which rife by pairs from the wings of the leaves ; 
thefe are fmall and white •, they appear in July, and 
if the feafon proves warm, the feeds will ripen in 
autumn. 
The eighth fort grows naturally in Crete ; this has a 
low fhrubby ftalk, which fends out branches on every 
fide, which grow about fix inches long, and are hoary ; 
they are garnifhed with ftiff, narrow, acute-pointed 
leaves, which are hollowed like the keel of a boat. 
The flowers grow in fhort roundifh fpikes at the end 
of the branches ; they are fmall and white ; the whole 
plant is hoary, and very aromatic. This never pro- 
duces feeds in England. 
The firft fort is only cultivated by feeds ; thefe fhould 
be fown the beginning of April, upon a bed of light 
earth, either where they are to remain, or for tranf- 
planting ; if the plants are to ftand unremoved, the 
feeds fhould be fown thinly ; but if they are to be 
tranfplanted, they may be fown clofer. When the 
plants appear they muft be kept clean from weeds, 
and afterward they may be treated in the fame way 
as Marjoram. 
The fecond, fixth, and eighth forts, are too tender 
to live through the winter in the open air in England. 
Thefe are generally propagated by flips or cuttings, 
which take root very readily during any of the fummer 
months if thefe cuttings or flips are planted in a 
fhady border, or are fhaded from the fun with mats, 
they will put out roots in two months, fit to be tranf- 
planted, when they fhould be taken up carefully, and 
each tranfplanted into a fmall pot, filled with frefh un- 
dunged earth, and placed in the fhade till they have 
taken new root •, then they may be placed in a fheb 
tered fituation, where they may remain till the end of 
Odober, when they fhould be placed under a com- 
mon hot-bed frame, where they may be expofed to 
the open air at all times when the weather is mild •, but 
they muft be protected from hard froft, which will de- 
ftroy them if expofed thereto. 
As thefe plants feldom live above three or four years, 
fo there fhould be a fupply of young plants railed to 
preferve the fpecies, otherwise they may be foon 
loft. In winter they fhould not have much wet, for 
they are very fubjed to grow mouldy by moifture, but 
efpecially if the free air is excluded from them ; or if 
their branches are drawn up weak, they are very apt 
to get mouldy, and then they foon decay. 
The third fort is very hardy, fo if this is fown or 
planted upon a dry lean foil, it will endure the greateft 
cold of our winters. I have feen fome of the plants 
growing upon the top of an old wall, where they 
were fully expofed to the cold, and thefe furvived 
the fevere froft, when moft of thofe which were grow- 
m □ 
ing in the ground were deftroyed. This may be pro- 
pagated either by feeds in the fame way as the firft 
fort, or by flips, which, if planted in the fpring, will 
take root very freely. Thefe plants will laft feveral 
years, but when they are old, their (hoots will be 
fhort and not fo well furnifhed with leaves, fo will 
not be fo good for ufe as young plants, therefore it 
will be proper to raife a fupply of young plants every 
other year. 
The fifth fort has a perennial root, but the ftalks 
decay every autumn. There are two varieties of this, 
one of them has narrower leaves and larger heads 
than the other, and the leaves have very little fcent ; 
whereas thofe of the common fort fmell fo like Pen- 
nyroyal, as not to be diftinguifhed by thofe who do 
not fee the plants. This fort lometimes produces good 
feeds here, from which the plants may be eafily pro- 
pagated ; they may alfo be increafed by planting cut- 
tings in the fpring, in the fame manner as is pradifed. 
for Mint ; thefe will take root freely, and if they are 
afterwards planted in a moift foil, they will thrive ex- 
ceedingly ; but as the plant is never ufed here, fo it 
is only kept for variety in fome curious gardens. 
SATYRIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 90 r. Orchis, Tourn. 
Inft. R. H. 431. tab. 247, 248. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a fingle ftalk \ the flowers have no empalements 
hut fit upon the germen : they have five oblong oval pe- 
tals ^ three outer and two inner , rifling and joined in a hel- 
met ; they have a one-leaved neBarium, fituated on the 
fide between the divifon of the petals, faftened to the re- 
ceptacle. The upper lip is fhort and erect. the under is 
plain and hangs downward, their bafe reprefents the hinder 
part of the fcrotum. They have two fhort fender ftamina 
fitting upon the point al, having oval fummits which have 
double cells flout in the upper lip of the neBarium , and an 
oblong twifted germen fituated under the flower , having a 
fhort ftyle , growing on the upper lip of the neBarium , 
crowned by an obtufe comprefled ftigma. The germen af- 
terward becomes an oblong capfule with one cell , having 
three keels and three cells , opening under the keels three 
ways , and filled with fmall feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedion of 
Linnasus’s twentieth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
in whofe flowers the ftamina are connected to the 
ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Satyrium ( Nigrum ) bulbis palmatis, foliis Iineari- 
bus, floribus relupinatis nedarii labio indivifo ovato 
acuminato 
