DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Leontjevs. 717 
Var. 2. Blossoms white, with a tinge of red. B. alba of Linn. 
{Cam. Epit. 572. E.) 
Near Hammersmith, on the road side. Mr. Woodward. Norwich. Mr. 
Crowe. Stafford. Dr. Stokes. (Near Hartlepool. Mr. Winch. In the 
lane leading from the Camp ground to Cheriton Street, near Sandgate. 
Mr. G. E. Smith. E.) 
MARRU'BIUM.* * Calyx salver-sliaped, rigid, with ten fur¬ 
rows : Bloss . upper lip cloven, strap-shaped, straight. 
M. vuLGAhtE. Teeth of the calyx ten, bristle-shaped, hooked: (leaves 
roundish-ovate, serrated, rugose. E.) 
{E. Bot. 410. E.)— FI. Dan. 103 6—Ludw. 145— Riv. Mon. 66. 1, Marru* 
Mum alb. — Blaclcw. 479— Ger. 561. 1— Fuchs. 590— J.B. iii. 316— Matth. 
828<— Lonic. i. 110. 2 — Trag. 8.2— Clus. ii. 34. 1— Dod. 87. 1— Lob. Obs. 
278. 3, and Ic. i. 517. 2— Ger. Em. 693. 1— Park. 44— Pet. 32. 3— H. Ox, 
xi. 9. row. 3. 1. 
Whole plant hoary with pubescence. Stem bluntly quadrangular, branch¬ 
ing from the bottom, one to two feet high. Lower-leaves roundish, 
wrinkled, with thick veins and woolly beneath. Upper-leaves somewhat 
egg-shaped. Calyx woolly, fringed on the inside at the bottom of the 
teeth with soft hairs. Blossoms nearly white, small, compressed, in 
crowded whorls; upper lip spear-shaped; lower lip, middle segment 
slightly scolloped, lateral segments spear-shaped, short. Anthers with a 
black substance in the middle. 
White Horehound. (Irish: Orafunt. Welsh: Perchwerwyn; Llwyd 
y cwm. 7rj oaoiov, ( Prasium ,) of the old medical writers. E.) Road 
sides, and amongst rubbish. P. July—Sept.t * 
LEONU'RUS.;}; Anthers incumbent, sprinkled with shining 
particles : (upper lip of the blossom shaggy. E.) 
L. cardi'aca. Stem-leaves spear-shaped, three-lobed: (upper ones 
entire or nearly so. E.) 
Kniph. 4— Ludw. 5— FI. Dan. 727— Riv. Mon. 20. 1, Cardiaca. — Blackw. 
171— E. Bot. 28 6—Dod. 94 —Lob. Obs. 278.1, andlc. i. 516.1 —Ger. Em. 
705— Park. 42. 7— Ger. 569— Fuchs. 395— Lonic. i. 110. 3— H. Ox. xi. 
9. 18. 
( Stem two or three feet high, quadrangular, coloured, downy. Leaves 
numerous, on leaf-stalks, woolly and veined underneath. Whorls many 
( Curculio ) vernale feeds principally on this plant; though sometimes on Urtica dioica or 
Lmrtium album. Kirby. E.) 
* (From a town of that name in Italy, where it abounds. E.) 
i* It is very bitter to the taste, and not altogether unpleasant to the smell. It was a 
favourite medicine with the ancients in obstructions of the viscera. It large doses it proves 
cathartic. It is a principal ingredient in the Negro Caesar’s remedy for vegetable poisons. 
A young man, who had occasion to take mercurial medicines, was thrown into a salivation 
which continued for more than a year. Every method that was tried to remove it, rather 
increased the complaint. At length Linnaeus prescribed an infusion of this plant, and the 
patient got well in a short time. Horses, cows,* sheep, and goats refuse it. (A tea 
prepared from it, sweetened with honey, is an excellent domestic medicine in coughs and 
obstructions of the lungs. E.) 
$ C Fl om b.twv } a lion ; and spa, a tail; from some fancied resemblance thereto. E.) 
