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PLATE DXXXVII.
O R I G A N U M TOURNEFORTII.
Tournefori^ Origanum.
CLASS XIV. OrxDER I.
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked.
GENERIC character.
STROBILUS tetragonus^ spicatus, calyces colligens.
Corollae labium superius erectum :
inferius 3-part i tum : laciniis sequalibus.
HEAD of flowers four-sided, like ears of com,
containing the cups. The upper lip of the
blossom is upright', the lower is three-parted,
in equal segments.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
OEIGANUM spicis tetragonis : bracteis sub-rotundis,
niaximis : foliis geminis, oppositis,
alternis, cordatis, panctatis^ glaucis.
Habitat in Magna Grsecia.
OKIGANUM with a four-sided spike: floral
leaves nearly round, and large. Leaves by
pairs, opposite and alternate, heart-shaped,,
dottedj and glaucous.
Native of Greece.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower.
2. The same spread without the cup.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
THIS species of Origanum was first discovered by Tournefort, who, in his travels in the Levant, describes
it as one of the rarest plants in all the Archipelago; native of Amorgos, and only to be found
in the clefts or rents of a hideous rock that overhangs the sea. At the bottom of this rock stands a
convent of the Virgin, a large house resembling a chest of drawers, and to which there is no entrance
but by a ladder of a dozen wooden steps through a small opening in one of the corners, the door of
which is covered with iron plates. This frightful promontory is naturally perpendicular, and said to
exceed m height that of La Sainte Bauuie in Provence.
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