TEUCRIUM. 



Telephium Imperati, with its smaller and smaller-flowered form 

 called T. I. orientate, has branches that splay fiat along the ground, 

 set with pairs of thick and oval sea -blue leaves, with heads of greenery 

 yallery blooms in summer. It may adorn a hot dry slope, but has 

 neither brilliancy nor any look of refinement. Seed. 



Tellima grandifiora is a large-growing Saxifrage from North 

 America, only admissible to a cool out-of-the-way corner of the wild 

 garden in rich soil, where it will make wide tangles of Heuchera-like 

 foliage, sending up, well above it, bare stems of a foot or two in thick 

 abundance, set all up in a narrow slim spire with well-spaced blossom- 

 cups of dim greenish- white or rusted green in May and June. They 

 have a certain grace of effect, indeed, and their profusion is pleasant, 

 but while the mass of foliage is handsome, this and its kindred species 

 are not things to be passionately pursued, except for the filling up of 

 a dank and worthless place in wood or wild. 



Tetragonolobus siliquosus= Lotus siliquosus, q.v. 



Teucrium. — The Germanders are not specially interesting or beau- 

 tiful Labiates. The taller ones, indeed, are not worth troubling, but for 

 making carpets in some cool place one may well use T. montanum, 

 which is so common hi the Alps, with its low-massed shoots of 3 or 4 

 inches, ending in a crowded head of pale creamy-lemon-coloured 

 blossoms, rather large for the plant, and making a fine effect by their 

 mass. In the same way is T. pyrenaicum, which, however, has the 

 hairy scalloped leaves along the shoots more rounded and ample, so that 

 the effect of the flowers, lilac in the hood and creamy in the lip, is 

 diminished by the enveloping effect of the fat foliage, soft and velvety- 

 green. Pretty, too, for crevices of the rockwork should bo T. Paede- 

 rota, which is a miniature of the Veronica which bears that name, and 

 whose fluffs of blue blossom are so effective hi the cliffs of the Dolomites, 

 hanging from their glossy sprays of dark leathern leafage. Another 

 dwarf yellow-flowered Germander is T. aureum, of 4 inches or so in 

 height. T. hyrcanum belongs to the larger growers, and makes a 

 bushy mass of 8 inches or so, with many long upstanding spikes, very 

 furry and dense, like a happy kitten's tail, and packed with little 

 purplish-red flowers hi summer. The smaller members of the race may 

 be imagined from a certain general resemblance to the Bugles ; they 

 are all intensely bitter, and hi general use as digestives ; as for pretty 

 pink T. marum, gardeners will be well advised not to admit the Catnip, 

 for the stomachic qualities of this are known to others than humans, 

 and every cat in the county will come to parties on it every night, 

 with such stimulating effect that not only does T. marum vanish 

 beneath their attentions, but also every other plant hi the place gets 



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