832 TEUCRIUM. [CLASS XIV. ORDER I. 



Stems numerous, spreading; leaves numerous, in three deep linear 

 segments, hairy; flowers axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves. 



English Botany, t. 77. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 68. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 230. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 198. 



Root slender, long, tapering. The whole plant more or less clothed 

 with soft silky hairs, and somewhat glutinous. Stems several, spread- 

 ing, from two to four inches long, slender, ohtusely angular, purplish, 

 Xmves numerous, crowded, cut into three linear spreading segments, 

 paler on the under side. Injlorescence solitary axillary flowers, shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx nearly sessile, the tube short, the teeth equal, 

 lanceolate, longer than the tube, hairy. Corolla bright yellow, spotted 

 with crimson, the tube short, swollen at the base, and dilated in the 

 throat, the upper lip short, notched, the lower long, with two oblong 

 linear lateral lobes, and the middle one oblong, heart-shaped. Stamens 

 scarcely longer than the tube, the anthers roundish. Seeds kidney- 

 shaped, beautifully reticulated with elevated lines, and having near the 

 base on the inner side an oblong marginal pit. 



Habitat. — Sandy and gravelly fields; not unfrequent in Kent and 

 Surrey; Triplow heath, Cambridgeshire; and Purfleet, Essex. 



Annual ; flowering in April and May, 



A very diff'erent species both in appearance and habit from any of 

 the preceding. The flowers are extremely beautiful, and the seeds 

 are remarkably elegant. It is a more frequent plant on the Continent 

 than with us, and we have found it in Germany in full flower in the 

 month of October, and in Italy in May. 



GENUS XX. TEU'CRIUM — Linn. Germander, 



Nat. Ord. LABiA'TEiE. Juss. 



Gen. Char. Cah/x tubular, two lipped, or five toothed. Corolla 

 with the upper lip bi-partile, the lower of three lobes. Stamens 

 much protruded between the lobes of the upper lip. — Named from 

 Tucer, Prince of Troy, who, according to Pliny, was the first to 

 use a plant so called medicinally. 



* Calyx tivo lipped. 

 1. T. Scoro'donia, Linn. (Fig. 963) Wood Germander^ or Sage, 

 Stem erect; leaves ovate, heart-shaped, petiolated, rugose, crenated ; 

 flowers in terminal and axillary racemes ; upper lip of the calyx ovate, 

 acute, entire. 



English Botany, t. 1543. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 69. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 229. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 198. 



Root of numerous branched fibres and creeping suckers. Stem 

 erect, obtusely angular, from one to two feet high, simple or branched, 



