NAT. ORDER, 

 VerticillatcB. 



TEUCRIUM MARUM. MARUM GERMANDER 



Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Order I. Gymnospermia. 



Gen. CJiar. Corolla, superior. Capsule, two-parted, divided from 

 the stigma. 



Spe. Char. Leaves, ovate, acute, petiolate, tomentose. Florets, 

 racemes in twos. 



The root of this plant is perennial, long, ligneous, and divided 

 into many fibrous branches : the stalks are numerous, slender, 

 shrubby, woolly, somewhat branched, and rise from one to two 

 feet in height : the leaves are oblong, pointed, entire, and near the 

 bottom obscurely lobed ; the upper pagina is of a pale green color ; 

 the under, white and downy ; they are placed in pairs upon slender 

 footstalks, which become gradually elongated towards the lower 

 part of the stems; the Jlmcers are jiroduced in spikes, and all 

 stand on the same side, in pairs, upon short peduncles ; the corolla 

 consists of a short curved, cylindrical tube, which divides at the 

 limb into two lips ; the upper lip is short, erect, and divided to 

 the base, by which it seems lost in the under lip, which is long, of 

 a pale purple color, and separated into six lobes ; of these the 

 outside one is the largest: the caly.T is tubular, whitish, woolly, 

 and cut into five short, pointed segments ; the filaments are two 

 long and two short, slender, white, and furnished with simple an- 

 thers ; the germen is quadrified, and supports a slender style, with 

 a bifid stigma ; the seeds are four, of a brown color, and lodged in 

 the cal3x, which serves the purpose of a capsule. 



This little shrub flowerS from July until September. It is a 



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