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creeping scions. The flowers are blue, and the upper 

 leaves, or bracts, are tinged with the same colour. A 

 white variety is sometimes found. Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



2. A. Chamcepitys (Ground Pine). Stem much 

 branched, spreading; leaves hairy, deeply 3-cleft, the 

 segments linear; flowers solitary, axillary. Sandy 

 fields, in Kent, Essex, and Surrey. A tufted herb- 

 aceous plant, 46 inches high, with reddish-purple 

 viscid stems, finely cut leaves, and yellow flowers spot- 

 ted with red. Its habit is very different from that of 

 the preceding. FL May, June. Perennial. 



* A. pyramiddlis (Pyramidal Bugle) is a rare High- 

 land species, distinguished from common Bugle by 

 being without scions, and by bearing its whorls of flowers 

 crowded into 4-sided spikes. 



7. TEUCRIUM (Germander). 



1. T. Scorodonia (Wood-Germander, Wood-Sage). 

 Stem erect ; leaves heart-shaped, oblong, stalked, wrin- 

 kled ; flowers in 1 -sided, spike-like clusters. A com- 

 mon woodland plant, about 2 feet high, with sage-like 

 leaves, and several 1 -sided clusters of small greenish- 

 yellow flowers. The whole plant is very bitter, and has 

 been used as a substitute for hops. Fl. June August. 

 Perennial. 



* T. Scordium (Water Germander) is a rare species, 

 growing in marshy places. It is only a few inches high, 

 and bears its flowers, which are purple, in distant whorls. 

 This plant was formerly employed in medicine as a 

 tonic, and a protection against infectious diseases ; now, 

 however, it is scarcely used except by rustic practitioners. 

 T. Chamosdrys is a doubtful native, and is also rare ; 

 the flowers are purple, with dark lines, large and 

 handsome, and grow 3 together in the axils of the 

 leaves. Several other species are frequently cultivated 

 in gardens as ornamental plants. 



