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intermixed with short gland- tipped ones, or with the leaves subglabrous 

 on both sides. 



In wet meadows and ditches. Very rare. At Bramiton Burrows, near 

 Biddeford, north Devon, and at Bolton on Swale, near Richmond, York. 

 These are the only places from which I have seen specimens. It is 

 stated in the Flora of Cambridge to grow between Cambridge and Ely ; 

 Prof. Babington has seen it from J\lepal near the latter town. It is 

 reported to grow near Horning, Norfolk, and in the counties of Oxford, 

 Northampton, and Lincoln, but the two latter stations require confir- 

 mation. In Ireland it occurs in the south and west, and is abundant 

 along the west shore of Lough Derg, from near the bridge at Portumna. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Smnmer, Autumn. 



When growing on ground which is merely inundated in winter, the 

 stems are rigid, 3 inches to 1 foot high, with suberect branches; the 

 leaves f to 1 inch long ; the bracts much attenuated at the base ; the 

 whole plant densely clothed with white wool. When growino- in 

 water, the plant has somewhat the habit of Scutellaria Galericulata ; the 

 stem weak and flexous ; the branches ascending ; the bracts cordate at 

 the base ; and the whole plant is subglabrous, except the stem and calyx, 

 which, however, are less hairy than in the terrestrial form. Both forms 

 have flowers on stalks rather longer than the calyx. Calyx about i 

 inch long. Corolla nearly I inch, pale purplish-rose ; the middle lobe of 

 the under lip spotted Avith darker rose towards the base. Nucules 

 minute, light reddish-brown, much less wrinkled that in T. Botrj's. 

 Plant dull green, often opaque, nearly white from the abundance of 

 hairs. Stolons long, with small scalelike leaves at distant intervals. 



The state with clasping bracts is I. scordioides of Bab. Man. Brit. 

 Bot. ed. i. p. 237, but it is merely a state and not a variety. The 

 plant of Schreber, under that name, which occurs in the south of 

 Europe, has the leaves and bracts much broader, cordate, and amplexi- 

 caul; the flowers on longer pedicels, and the calyx smaller: it appears 

 to be distinct, at least as a sub-species. 



Water Germander. 

 French, Germandree aquatique. German, Knohlauchdiiflender Gamander. 



This plant possesses tonic and aromatic bitter qualities, but is no longer used in 

 medicine, though perhaps superior to some of the drugs which are substituted for it. 

 The dried leaves are employed powdered as a veiinifuge by the peasantry, and a decoc- 

 tion is said by Withering to be a good fomentation for gangrene. The whole herb 

 has a strong garlic-like od6ur, and when eaten by cows it is apt to give its flavour 

 to the milk, but those animals usually refuse to touch it unless compelled by 

 hunger. 



Dr. Prior, whose authority is reliable, tells us that the name Germander is derived 

 from the words x"/'«''i ground, and t/)i/c:, oak, so named from the fancied likeness of 

 its leaves to those of an oak. 



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