170 Bicknell : Teucrium in Eastern United States 



above : leaves short-oblong or oblong-ovate, cuneate at base, 

 acute or acuminate at apex, irregularly dentate-serrate or somewhat 

 cut-serrate with numerous subspreading teeth, more or less densely 

 hoary-tomentose beneath, softly pilose-pubescent above, 6-9 cm. 

 long, 2.5-4.5 cm. wide, the slender petioles hoary-pubescent, 10- 

 1 5 mm. long : inflorescence hoary -villose : calyx often purplish, 5- 

 7 mm. long, the upper tooth acute, the lateral ones obtuse, the 

 lower pair but little longer, triangular-subulate ; pedicels very 

 short : bracts usually longer than the calyx, ciliate-fringed : cor- 

 olla rose-purple, somewhat smaller than in T. littorale and less ex- 

 serted, more or less pilose-bearded. 



Coast of Maine, August-September, York Harbor, Aug. 18, 

 1896, E. P. B. Type in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. Mt. Desert, 

 Aug. 19, 1897. E. P. B. 



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Teucrium occidentale Gray. Western Germander 



From 30-80 cm. high, becoming erectly branched above, the 

 dense narrow spikes either short or flexuously elongated : stem 

 and petioles villous-hirsute with spreading or recurved hairs, the 

 inflorescence densely hirsute and viscid-glandular ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, narrower or broader, 4-9 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm - wide, mostly 

 rounded at base, acute and sharp-serrate, papillose-hirsute above, 

 tomentulose or hirsute -pubescent beneath with spreading hairs on 

 the larger veins, petioles 10-20 mm. long : bracts mostly shorter 

 than the calyx : calyx often purple, 5 mm. long to the acute upper 

 teeth, the elongated lower teeth more or less stiffly lanceolate- 

 subulate : corolla pinkish-purple, 8-12 mm. long, tomentulose and 

 glandular without. 



Ontario and Missouri to California and British Columbia, 

 August. 



Ontario : Kingston, J. Fowler. 



New York : Manitou Beach, Lake Ontario, N. L. Britton. 



Ohio : Riddell, 1834. 



Missouri : Jackson Co., B. F. Bush. 



Nebraska : P. A. Rydberg. 



Iowa : Armstrong, R. I. Cratty ; Ames, L. H. Pammel and 

 C. R. Ball. 



Colorado : Canyon City, Miss Alice Eastwood. 

 Arizona : Fort Apachee, Mrs. R. W. Hoyt. 

 California : Valley of the Sacramento, Wilkes Expedition, 

 no. 133 1. 



British Columbia : John Macoun. 



