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TEUCRIUM SCORDIUM 
WATER GERMANDER. 
l:sb«' 
S TNO N TMA, Scordlum. Pbarm. L 
Emac. p. 661. Bauh. Pin. p. 247 
Rail Hiji. p. 576. Synop. p, 245. 
I'hea t. 
nd, ^ Edinb 
Bauh, Hi/}, 
Gerard, 
2. 
III. 
Cham^drys fol 
Scordiiim le 
mollibus. I 
^ 
crenatis, verticillis paucifloris. Hal. Stirp. Heh 
Scordium. Witbcrifig. Bot.Arrang. p. 591. 
8. 
. 29 
1. Park 
elliDticis 
Teu 
> 
Fl 
Dan. 59 
Clafs Didynamla. Ord. Gymnofperniia. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 
706 
y 
E[f. Gen. Ch. Corolla labium fuperlus (nullum) ultra bafm 2~partitum 
J 
divaricatum ubi llamina. 
Sp. Ch. 
T. foliis oblorisis feffiHbtis dentato-ferratls, floribus gemmis 
axillaribus pedunculads, caule difFufo. 
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THE root is perennial,. fibrous, creepin 
g 
hairy, and more than a foot in length 
the ftems are branched, 
: the leaves 
ferrated, hairy, oblong, veined, of a dulky 
without 
footftalks, and placed in pairs : the flov^^ers ftand in verticilli or whorl 
of two, thre 
bafe of the 1 
four together, upon Ihort pedun 
placed 
monop 
5 
onfiiting of a fhort 
tube, which divides at the mouth into two lips 
but th 
upp 
emely fh 
d cleft in the middle, and therefore appears to be 
fid 
g 
and 
the 
d 
lip is 
d by 
Ion 
of a purpl 
dentated at th 
roundifh expanded fegment 
the 
ides, and terminated by a large rounaiin expanuea legmcuL. lu 
alyx is tubular, hairy, and cut at the extremity into five ihort teeth 
the filaments are four, two Ion? and two fh 
flender, ben 
and 
crowned with fimple antherae 
the 
ermen divide 
four parts 
from the centre of whFch rifes a {lender ftyle, furnifhed with 
ftigma 
the feeds are four, naked, of an irregular fliap 
^5 
bifid 
and lodged 
the bottom of the 
It is a native of England, in marfhy 
fituations, and flowers in July and Auguft 
The 
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