718 DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Clinopodium. 
flowered. Cal. with sharp spreading teeth. E.) Flowers purplish within, 
white and downy on the outside. Anthers brown, partly covered on the 
outer side with white opaque globules which look like enamel, but are 
not of a bony hardness. 
Motherwort. (Lion’s-tail. Welsh: Mamlys; Llys y fammog. E.) 
Hedges, on rubbish and waste spots. (Between Tickhill and Worksop. 
Hudson. In a lane near Combe Wood, Surry. Mr. Sowerby. Near 
WyclifFe. Mr. Winch. King’s Coughton, Warwickshire ; and near Mal¬ 
vern. Purton. On the Point, near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. E.) Ditch- 
ingham, Norfolk, in a hedge, and on an adjoining bank, in a gravelly 
soil. Mr. Woodward. At North Bovey, and Kennock-kiln, near Canon- 
Teign, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. In a shady walk behind Fisherrow, 
and in Collington woods, Edinburgh. Maughan. Hook. Scot. E.) 
P. June—Aug.* 
CLINOPO'HIUM.f Stamens crooked : Anthers approaching : 
Involucr. many-bristled, inclosing the ribbed calyces. 
C. vulga're. Heads roundish, hispid: fioral-leaves bristle-shaped. 
FI. Dan. 930— Kniph. 11—(J57. Bot. 1401. E.)—Clus. i. 354. 2— Lob. Ohs. 
269. 2 — Ic. i. 504. 2 — Ger. Em. 67 5. 2 — Park. 22. 4— H. Ox. xi. 8. row 
1. 1— Pet. 32. 9 — Riv. Mon. 43. 1, Clinopodium — Trag. 36. 2 — Lonic. i. 
118. 1— Matth. 814— Lonic. ii. 21.1. 
(Blossom on branched stalks, purplish red, with a yellow protuberance on 
each side of its mouth. Tube long; upper lip notched, lower crenate. 
, Whole plant hairy. Calyx with thirteen scores. Whorls few. Stems 
square, hairy, reddish, twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves egg- 
shaped, serrated, sometime.^ nearly entire, on short leaf-stalks. Smell 
aromatic. E.) 
Wild Basil. (Welsh: Breninllys gwyllt. E.) Meadows, hedges, and 
dry pastures, especially in calcareous soil. P. July. 
ORIG'ANUM. ( Calyx without ribs : Involucrum of numerous 
dilated, flat leaves, with the flowers forming a spikate, 
quadrangular cone. E.) 
O. vulga^re. Spikes roundish, panicled, clustered: floral-leaves egg- 
shaped, longer than the calyx. 
(i?. Bot. 1143. E.)— Kniph 4— Ludw. 90— Curt. 338— Woodv. 164— Riv. 
Mon. 60. 1, Origanum. — Ger. 541. 4— Matth. 1701— Dod. 285. 2 — Lob. 
Obs. 263. 1, and Ic. i. 492. 2— Ger. Em. 666. 4— Park. 12. 6 — JL Ox. xi. 
3. 12— Pet. 34. 8— Blackw. 280 -Fuchs. 552— J. B. iii. 236—Trag. 36. 1 
— Lonic . i. 118. 2—FI. Dan. 638. 
Stem a little woolly, about a foot high, often coloured. Leaves egg-heart¬ 
shaped, very slightly serrated, opposite, dotted, more or less hairy. 
Floral-leaves spear-shaped, coloured. Calyx nearly equal; mouth closed 
with bristly hairs, which at first lie parallel to the sides, but when the 
blossom falls off’ they stand out closing up to the mouth; without beset 
* The leaves have a strong but not an agreeable smell, and a bitter taste. Goats, sheep, 
and horses eat it. Cows are not fond of it. Swine refuse it. 
f (From xXivjj, a couch; and ttoSjoiv, a little foot; the flowers growing in whorls, 
resembling the ancient turned feet of bedsteads. E-) 
