132 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 
CLINOPODIUM. Field Basil. 
The involucrum is the length of the cup, with a mul- 
titude of hairs making a kind of a whorl. The cup is 
HiOnophyllous, cyllndraceous, flightly incurved, and bi- 
labiated. The upper lip is broader, trihd, acute, reflex-, 
the lower lip is bipartite, flcnder, and inflex. 1 he flow- 
er is monopetalous and ringent, the tube is fliort and 
vifibly enlarges towards the faux. The upper lip is e- 
redl, concave, obtufe, and emarginated; The lower lip 
is trifid and obtufe, the middle fegment is broader and 
emarginated. The four filaments are under the up- 
per lip, two of which are fhorter with roundifh anther 
Thegermen is quadripartite, the ftyle is flender, and the 
length of the ftamina. The ftigma is Ample, acute, and 
comprefled. The cup is ftraitned in the neck, gibbous 
in the belly, and contains four ovate leeds. 
Vulgar e. Great Wild Bafil with roundifh, prickly 
heads, and brully bradtcie. Per. July. 
O R I G A N U M. Marjoram. 
The involucrum is fpicated and compounded of im- 
bricated, ovate, coloured bradeae, and the cup is une- 
qual The flower is monopetalous and ringent, the tube 
cyllndraceous and compreffed. The upper lip is ered, 
plain, obtufe, emarginated. The lower hp is trifid and 
the fegments unequal. The four filaments are thread-like 
the length of the corolla, two of which are longer and 
the antherae are fimiple. The germen is quadrilid, the 
fiyle flender and inclining towards the upper lip of the 
corolla; the ftigma is flightly bifid. Ihe cup is conni- 
vent .md contains four ovate feeds. 
Obf. The involucrum of the cup conftitutes the ef- 
fential charadterifTc of this genus. 
Vulgare. Wild Marjoram with roundilh, paniculated 
fpikes gathered in clulters, and oval bradeae, which are 
longer than the empaleinent. About Borwick and in 
the 
