82 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



In chalky corn-fields. " In a stony and very deep valley facing the 

 west, near the end of Boxhill forthest from Burford Bridge, at a 

 consideraljle distance back from the front of the hill Ijetween that and 

 Headly Lane and Bagley Hill, Bookham, Surrey." Fl. of Surrey, 

 p. 17.5. It is also said to have been formerly found at Sanderstead. 



England. Annual. Late Summer. 



Stem erect, 4 to 10 inches high, branched towards the base; the late- 

 ral divisions curved ujiwards, the central one erect, simple or with 

 spreading branches. Leaves about 1 inch long, the petiole winged, 

 the prmcipal veins very deeply impressed on the upper side, prominent 

 beneath. Bracts like the leaves, or bi-pmnatifid, diminishing in size 

 upwards, longer than the lower flowers, shorter than the u];)per ones. 

 Calyx about i inch long, often tinged with purple, thinly pubescent, 

 inflated and reticulated in fruit. Corolla f inch long, purplish rose, 

 variegated with paler patches and red dots. Nucules fuscous-olive, 

 coarsely pitted. Plant pubescent with long hau's, intermixed with 

 numerous shorter gland-tipped ones. 



Cut-leaved Germander. 



French, Germandree hotride. German, Trauhen-Gamander. 



SPECIES IL—TEUCmUffl SCORDIUM. Lirm. 



Plate MXCII. 



Beich, Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCXXXIX. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 438. 



Perennial. Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stem herbaceous, 

 erect or decumbent, paniculately branched or simple ; branches erect 

 or ascendmg. Leaves all sessile, oblong or elliptical-oblong, dentate- 

 serrate or crenate-serrate, those of the main stem truncate or sub- 

 cordate at the base, those of tlie branches romided at the base, opaque, 

 more or less hairy on both sides, not glandular beneath. Bracts 

 similar to the leaves, scarcely any smaller, but when the plant grows 

 out of the water they are rounded or even wedgeshaped at the base. 

 Verticillasters about 4-flowered, arranged in a lax raceme, occupying 

 about half the stem or branches. Calyx pubescent, and with a few 

 gland-tipped hah-s, scarcely inflated, but slightly saccate at the base on 

 the lower side; teeth erect, deltoid-triangular, neai'ly equal, half the 

 length of the tube, not spinous-pomted. Corolla about twice the 

 length of the calyx. Nucules trigonous-ovoid, faintly reticulate-honey- 

 combed. Plant more or less thickly pubescent with long woolly hairs, 



