LABIATE FAMILY 



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racemes ; calyx tubular, 5-toothed ; corolla with short tube, upper 

 lip small, deeply 2-cleft, lower lip 3-cleft, the middle lobe much 

 the largest ; stamens 4, parallel, the 2 upper shorter ; nutlets united, 

 generally wrinkled. (Name from Teucer, who is said to have been 

 the first to use it in medicine.) 



I. T. Botrys (Cut-leaved Annual Germander). — A downy, 

 glandular plant with long hairs ; stem erect, 4 — 8 in. high, much 



bAllota nigra {Black H oreJiotind). 



TEUCRIUM SCORODOXIA 



(IFood Gertnander, Wood Sage). 



branched from the base ; leaves all stalked, ovate, pinnatifid, 

 into 7 — II linear, obtuse segments ; flowers rose-colour, in axillary, 

 4 — 6-flowered whorls ; calyx large, inflated, pouched at the base. 

 — Chalky fields in Surrey ; very rare. — Fl. August, September. 

 Annual. 



2. T. Scordium (Water Germander).— A hairy plant with creep- 

 ing rhizome and runners ; branches 4—10 in. high; leaves sessile, 

 oblong, coarsely serrate ; flowers rose-colour, in distant axillary, 



