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*Perennial SPEI ii 

 es toothed, 

 t Flowers in terminal dense spike-like panicles. 

 Calyx and bracts canescent, without long hairs. 



Leaves, at least the lower, obtuse or rounded at the base, not rugose-veined. 



i. T. canadensc. 

 Leaves narrowed at the base, rugose-veined, mostly narrowly lanceolate. 



Calyx and bracts villous and often glandular-pubescent. 3. 



tt Flowers in secund terminal spikes. 4. 



Leaves laciniate ; flowers axillary. 5. 



** Annual species, with pinnatifid leaves and axillary flowers. 6. 



T. littorale. 

 T. occidentale. 

 T. Scorodonia. 

 T. laciniatum. 

 T. Botrys. 



i. Teucrium canadense L. American 

 Germander or Wood Sage. Fig. 3566. 



Teucrium canadense L. Sp. PI. 564. 1753. 



Teucrium virginicum L. Sp. PI. 564. 1753. 



Perennial, appressed-pubescent or canescent ; 

 stem erect, simple or somewhat branched, 

 rather slender. i-2 tall. Leaves lanceolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate at the apex, irregularly dentate, mostly 

 rounded at the base, short-petioled, l*'-5' 

 long, '-2' wide, glabrous or sparingly pubes- 

 cent above, densely canescent beneath ; spike 

 usually dense, becoming 612' long in fruit, 

 bracts canescent, the lower sometimes folia- 

 ceous, the upper commonly not longer than the 

 canescent calyx ; flowers 6"-io" long, very 

 short-pedicelled ; calyx about 3" long in fruit, 

 its three upper teeth obtuse or subacute. 



In moist thickets or along marshes, New Eng- 

 land to Ontario, Minnesota, Florida, Kansas and 

 Texas. Ascends to 2600 ft. in Virginia. Ground- 

 pine. June-Sept. 



2. Teucrium littorale Bicknell. Narrow-leaved Germander. Fig. 3567. 



Teucrium littorale Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 28: 

 169. 1901. 



T. canadense var. littorale Fernald, Rhodora 10: 

 S4. 1908. 



Pale and canescent, 2 high or less, erect or 

 assurgent, often with ascending branches. 

 Leaves thickish and rugose-veiny, narrowly ob- 

 long or sometimes broader, narrowed into the 

 petiole, closely fine-serrate or becoming un- 

 equally dentate-serrate. 2V-4' long, i'-ij' wide; 

 petioles 2V-5" long; spikes narrow, often in- 

 terrupted ; bracts about the length of the ca- 

 lyx ; calyx small, 2"-2i" high, becoming some- 

 what gibbous-urceolate, the teeth short, the 

 upper ones obtuse ; corolla pale pink, about 

 8" long, loosely pilose without. 



On or near the coast, Maine to Florida and 

 Texas, north to Arkansas and Oklahoma. In- 

 cluded in our first edition in T. canadense L., and 

 there figured for that species. July-Aug. 



