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ORD. RIX: Verticillate, a 
TEUCRIUM SCORDIUM.__ WATER GERMANDER. 
SSS eae oes 
SYNONYMA. Scordium. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb.  Cerard. 
Eimac. p. 661. Bauh. Pin.. p. 274. J. Bauh. Hist. tii, p. 292. 
Rati Hist.p. 576. Synop.p.245. Scordiumlegitimum. Park. 
Theat. p. 111. Chamzedrys foliis mollibus, hirsutis, ellipticis, 
crenatis, verticillis paucifloris. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n.. 288. Teu- 
cerium Scordium. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 591. Flor. Dan. 
593. f 
Class Didynamia. Ord. Gymnospermia, Lin. Gen. Plant. 706. 
Ess, Gen. Ch. Corolle labium superius (nullum) ultra basin 
2- -partitum, divaricatum ubi stamina. 
Sp. Ch. T. foliis oblongis sessilibus dentato-serratis, floribus 
geminis axillaribus pedunculatis, caule diffuso. 
THE root is perennial, fibrous, creeping: the stems are 
branched, trailing, square, hairy, and more than. a foot in length : 
the leaves are serrated, hairy, oblong, veined, of a dusky-green 
colour, without footstalks, and placed in pairs: the flowers stand in 
verticilli or whorls of two, three, or four together, upon short 
peduncles, placed at the base of the leaves: the corolla is mono- 
petalous, consisting of a short tube, which divides at the mouth 
into two lips, but the upper is extremely short, and cleft in the 
middle, and therefore appears to be wanting: the under lip is long, 
of a purple colour, dentated at the sides, and terminated by a large 
roundish expanded segment: the calyx is tubular, hairy, and cut 
at the extremity into five short teeth: the filaments are four, two 
Jong and two short, slender, bent, and crowned with simple . 
anther: the germen divides into four parts, from the centre of 
’ which rises a leintel style, furnished with a bifid stigma: the seeds 
