210 LABIATE. [Tcucrium, 



the upper lip broader and emarginate. — Name from Xy/cos, a 

 wolf, and tt«<?, a foot, from a fancied resemblance, in the cut 

 leaves of this plant, to a wolf's paw. — Der Wolfsfuss, in 

 Germ. ; — in English, Gipsij-wort, because the plant yields a 

 black dye, which is employed by gipsies to render their 

 skin darker. Diandria. 3Ionogynia. 



1. L. eitropceus, Linn. Common Gipsy-wort or Water 

 Horehound. Leaves deeply serrated. Br. Fl. 1. p. 10. E. FL 

 v.'up. 34. E. Bot. t. 1105. 



Ditches and river banks, frequent. Fl. June, July. %. — Leaves 

 opposite, nearly sessile, ovato-lanceolate, wrinkled, very deeply sinuato- 

 serrate, almost pinnatifid. Flowers small, sessile, in dense ivhorls at 

 the base of the superior leaves, whitish with purple dots, hairy within. 



3. Ajuga. Linn. Bugle. 



Calyx 5-cleft, nearly equal. Corolla tubular, labiate ; the upper 

 lip very small, and with two teeth ; the lower one 3-lobed, 

 with a large intermediate obcordate lobe. Stamens protruded 

 above the upper lip. — Name altered from Abiga, (abigo, to 

 drive away) of the Latins, a medical plant allied to this. 



Didynamia. Gymnospermia. 



1. A. reptans, Linn. Common Bugle. Almost smooth, 

 with a solitary stem and creeping runners; lower lip of the 

 corolla 4-cleft. Br. Fl. 1. p. 273. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 65. E. Bot. 

 t. 489. 



Moist pastures and woods, abundant. Fl. May, June. %. — Stem 

 a span high, erect, leafy. Leaves obovate, upper ones sessile ; whorls 

 several. Flowers blue (sometimes white or flesh-coloured). 



2. A. alpina, Linn. Alpine Bvgle. Leaves nearly glabrous, 

 unequally toothed, all nearly of the same size ; whorls of flowers 

 rather distant. Br. Fl. 1. p. 273. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 65. E. 

 Bot. t. 477. 



Mountains, Tare. Summit of Benyevena, Magilligan, Connty of 

 Derry ; Mr. L>. Moore, whose specimens appear more dwarf than the 

 figure in E. Bot. but otherwise pretty well agree. Fl. July. % . 



4. Teucrium. Linn. Germander. 



Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, nearly equal, or 2-lipped. Corolla 

 with the tube shorter t than the calyx ; upper lip bipartite, 

 lower one patent, trifid. Stamens much exserted. Cells of 

 the Anthers confluent, spreading. — Named from Teucer, 

 Prince of Troy, who first employed this plant medicinally. 



Didynamia. Gymnospermia. 



1. T. Seorodonia, Linn. Wood Germander. Leaves heart- 

 shaped, hairy, serrated, stalked ; racemes aggregate, unilateral ; 



