Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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g portion of the stem of the previous year. If this supposition becorrect, the two British forms of thyme should be considered as ver-species, on account of a constant physiological difference, between them. Larger Wild Tliyme. GENUS IV.—O RI G A N U M. Linn. Calyx with 10 to 13 striai, regular, or more or less bilabiate, 5-toothed ; teeth nearly equal. Corolla sub-bilabiate; the upper lipnotched ; lower one 3-lobed, with the lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4 ;filaments straight, divergent; anther-cells at length diverging at thebase, not contiguous at the apex. Herbs or under-shrubs with entire or toothed leaves. FloAvers palepurple, lilac, or white, in short sub-cylindrical or 4-sided dense spikes,with the bracts usually coloured. Verticillasters reduced to pairs offlowers. Tho name of this gentis is said to be derived from clpoc (ocos), a mountain, andyavoQ (fjanos), joy, tlie deliglit of the mountaui. It is tlie Origanum of Pliuy, andopiyavov of Tlieoplirastus and Dioscorides. MXLV.
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E. B. 1143. Origanum vulgare, var. genuinum. Common Marjonim, var. a. LABIATE. 29 SPECIES I.—O RIGANUM VULGARE. Linn. J^^.Plates JIXLV. IIXLVI.Bdch. Ic. PI. Gei-m. et Holv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCLXII. Rootstock shortly creeping, with short slender ascending stolonsbearing minute leaves towards the apex. Stem stout, erect. Leavesshortly stalked, ovate or rhombic-ovate or subdeltoid-ovate, subacute,repand. Spikes ovoid or oblong, aggregated at the extremity of thestem and branches, and taken together forming a narrow corymbose-topped panicle. Bracts rhombic-oval, acute, slightly longer than thecaljx, dark purple, with a green base, rarely entirely green. Var. a, genuinum.Plate MXLV. r,mot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 65. O. TTilgare, Linh; Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. Vol. II. p. 510. Sclmr, Eimm. PI.Transsyl. p. 524. Spikes short, ovoid, few-flowered. Var. /3, prismaticum Gaud.Plate ilXLV. O. megastacliyTiin Linh; Boreau, I.e. Vol. II. p. 516. Schui; I.e. p. 524.O. vulgare, var.

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