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TEUCRIUM CHAMZEDRYS. ~ COMMON GERMANDER. 
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SYNONYMA. Chamadrys. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 296. Dale. 145. 
Alston. ti. 105. Lewis. 219. Cullen. ii.8. Ed. New. Dispens. 
169. Murray.ii. 119. Bergius. 506. .Chameedrys minor repens. 
Bauh. Pin. 148. Ger. Emac. 656. Chameedrys vulgaris. Park. 
Theat. 104. Ray. Hist. 527. Synop.231. Hudson. Flor. Ang. 
248. With. Bot. Arr. 592. Ic. Flor. Dan. p. 448. 
Didynamia Gymnospermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 706. 
Gen. Ch. Corolle labium superius (nullum) ultra basin 2-partitum, 
divaricatum ubi stamina. 
Sp. Ch. T. foliis cuneiformi-ovatis incisis crenatis petiolatis, 
floribus ternis, caulibus procumbentibus subpilosis. 
ROOT perennial, branched, fibrous. Stalk about a foot in height, 
decumbent, roundish, branched, rough. Leaves in pairs, on foot- 
stalks, ovate, narrow, irregularly toothed, veined, hairy. Flowers 
purple, placed in whorls at the alz of the leaves. Calyx rough, 
quinguifid. Segments pointed. Corolla consists of a short curved 
tube, at the limb divided into two lips, of which the upper is short, 
and cut in the middle in such a manner as to disapper: the lower 
lip separates into spreading lobes, of which the middlemost is 
large, and of a roundish form. Filaments two long and two short, 
slender, white, and furnished with simple anthere. Germen four, 
parted. Style filiform. Stigma bifid. Seeds four, enclosed in 
the calyx. 
It is a native of England, flowering in June and July. The 
annexed figure is taken from a garden specimen. 
The leaves and tops of Germander have a moderately bitter taste, 
accompanied with a weak aromatic flavour, which is diminished but 
not totally dissipated when the plant is dried. They give out their 
virtues both to watery and spirituous menstrua. Water seems to 
