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 / Teucrium boreale sp. nov. Northern Germander 



Erect or ascending, rather slender, often widely branched from 

 the base, from 30 to 80 cm. or more tall : stem loosely pubescent 

 with recurved hairs, especially on the angles, to glabrate, the in- 

 florescence somewhat villous-pubescent, scarcely if at all glandu- 

 lar : spikes rather short or the terminal one elongated, often inter- 

 rupted and somewhat flexuous : leaves thin or membranous, 

 ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes narrowly so, 5-10 

 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm - wide, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed 

 at the base, more or less regularly sharp-serrate to dentate-serrate, 

 above minutely hispidulous puberulent, beneath thinly tomentu- 

 lose, or sometimes glabrate throughout : petioles of the main 

 leaves becoming 10-20 mm. long : bracts mostly shorter than the 

 calyx, ciliate : calyx thin, campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, the sub- 

 equal teeth short and broad, the lateral pair very obtuse : corolla 

 purplish-pink, 12-15 mm. long, about three times the length of 

 the calyx, loosely short -pubescent and dotted with minute glands, 

 the terminal lobe broad. 



New Hampshire to northern New York, August. 



New Hampshire : Lyme, W. W. Eggleston. 



Vermont ; Alburg Springs and Rutland, W. W. Eggleston; 



Burlington, Grant. 



New York: West Point, ex- Herb. Torrey; Westminster 



Park, Miss E. Babcock. Type from Vermont, in Herb. N. Y 

 Bot. Garden. 



^ Teucrium menthifolium sp. nov. Mint-leaved Germander 



Sparsely hirsute-pubescent with recurved hairs to nearly gla- 

 brous except the inflorescence, smaller and less branched than T. 

 occidentals, the denser spikes shorter, with the bracts often con- 

 spicuously elongated and foliaceous, the pubescence not viscid nor 

 glandular : leaves firm and thickish, pale green, minutely pubescent 

 to glabrate above, white -veiny and thinly tomentulose beneath, with 

 longer hairs on the veins or glabrate, lanceolate or narrowly ob- 

 long, narrowed or contracted at the base, 5-9 cm. long, 2-3 cm. 

 wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, somewhat regularly sharp- 

 serrate : calyx 5-6 mm. long, narrowly campanulate, the teeth 

 shorter and less rigid than in T. occidentals, the lateral obtuse, the 

 lower pair only slightly longer : corolla pink, short, sometimes not 

 twice the length of the calyx, thinly pubescent and glandular, the 

 terminal lobe small, often not broader than the lateral ones. 



Central Michigan: Alma, July 17, 1890, August, 1892. 

 Charles A. Davis. Type in Herb. Columbia. 



