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TEU 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



TEU 



serrate, ovate ; peduncles solitary, three-flowered, the middle 

 flower sessile ; bractes linear-lanceolate. Perennial. Native 

 of Siberia. 



18. Teucrium Salicifolium ; Willow-leaved Germander. 

 Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, bluntish, quite entire ; calices 

 quadrifid, solitary ; sterns diffused, roundish, pubescent, 

 perennial at the base. Native of the Levant. 



19. Teucrium Asiaticum; Asiatic Germander. Leaves 

 lanceolate, repand, serrate, rectangular at the base ; flowers 

 solitary. Stem erect, straight, a foot high, four-cornered, 

 brownish, brachiate, naked, with shorter branches ; corolla 

 white, or scarcely flesh-coloured. It flowers from June to 

 October. Native place unknown. 



20. Teucrium Cubense; Cuba Germander. Leaves wedge- 

 shaped, serrate-gashed, smooth, attenuated into the petiole; 

 flowers solitary, peduncled. Stem four-cornered, erect, a 

 foot and half high, smooth, little branched, annual, or per- 

 haps biennial ; seeds black. Native of Cuba, in moist hedges 

 and meadows, flowering in December and the following 

 months. To propagate this, and the twenty-fourth species, 

 sow their seeds in small pots in autumn, and plunge them 

 into the tan-bed in the stove between the other pots ; in the 

 spring, plunge them into a hot-bed, which will bring up the 

 plants. When these are fit to remove, plant each in a sepa- 

 rate pot, and treat them in the same way as directed for 

 tender plants from the West Indies. 



21. Teucrium Arduini, Leaves ovate, serrate; racemespiked, 

 round, sessile, terminating. The whole plant is obscurely 

 pubescent. Native of Crete, &c. 



22. Teucrium Canadense ; Nettle-leaved Germander. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate : stem erect ; raceme round, 

 terminating; whorls six-leaved. This is a perennial plant, 

 very like our Scorodonia, or Wood Sage, but does not creep 

 at the root as that does. The stalks are erect, the under 

 side of the leaves white, and the flowers yellow, in terminat- 

 ing racemes. It flowers in August and September. Native 

 of North America. Sow the seeds of this, and of the next 

 species, on a bed of light earth. They may also be increased 

 by parting the roots, and will bear the open air. 



23. Teucrium Virginicum ; Virginian Germander. Leaves 

 ovate, unequally serrate; racemes terminating. The stalk is 

 annual, rises nearly a foot high, and is terminated by a lon.g 

 spike of red flowers, which appear in July and August. 

 Native of Virginia. See the preceding species. 



24. Teucrium Inflatum ; Thick-spiked Germander. Leaves 

 oblong, acuminate, unequally serrate, pubescent; spikes 

 sessile, terminating; calices inflated, villose. It flowers from 

 August till October. It is a native of Jamaica. See the 

 twentieth species. 



25. Teucrium Hircanicum ; Belony-leaved Germander. 

 Leaves cordate, oblong, obtuse ; stem brachiate, dichoto- 

 inous ; spikes very long, terminating, sessile, spiral. It flowers 

 from August to October. Native of Persia. 



26. Teucrium Abutiloides ; Mulberry -leaved Germander. 

 Leaves cordate, toothed, acuminate; racemes lateral, nod- 

 ding. Native of Madeira, flowering in April and May. 



27. Teucrium Scorodonia; Sage-leaved Germander, orWood 

 Sage. Leaves cordate, serrate, petioled, hairy; racemes 

 lateral, directed one way; stem erect. Root perennial, 

 creeping; herb a foot or two in height, dark green, hairy; 

 corolla pale yellow ; stamens purple. Mr. Laurents, in his 

 observations on the husbandry of Flanders, remarks, that in 

 smell and taste this species resembles Hops. It is called 

 Ambroise in Jersey ; and in that island, when cider fails, they 

 malt their barley at home, and, instead of Hops, use to very 

 good purpose the Ambroise of their hedges. Rutty says, that 



when this herb is boiled in wort, the beer sooner becomes 

 clear than when Hops are made use of; but Dr. Withering 

 relates, upon trial, that it gave too much colour to the liquor. 

 Native of Europe and Morocco, in woody and hilly situ- 

 ations, among bushes, and under hedges, where the soil is 

 dry and stony ; frequent in such places in most parts of 

 Great Britain, flowering from July to September. Propa- 

 gated by seeds, or by parting the roots ; and will grow in any 

 soil and situation, but is seldom admitted into gardens. 



28. Teucrium Pseudo-Scorodonia ; Bastard Wood Saye. 

 Shrubby : leaves cordate, toothed, petioled, hoary beneath ; 

 racemes directed one way. This has the appearance of the 

 preceding, but differs in having a shrubby and more hairy 

 stem, with the lower leaves tomentose beneath, and hoary. 

 Native of Barbary and Algiers. 



29. Teucrium Massiliense ; Sweet-scented Germander. 

 Leaves ovate, wrinkled, gash-crenate, hoary; stems erect; 

 racemes straight, directed one way; flowers opposite, pedun- 

 cled; corolla purple, with the lower lip very concave. It 

 has the odour of Nepeta or Catmint. Native of the south of 

 France, Candia, and Cochin-china. This may be propagated 

 by seeds or cuttings in the same manner as the ninth species, 

 but it requires a dry soil and a warm situation, otherwise 

 they will not live through the winter in the open air of our 

 climate. A plant or two of this and other doubtful species 

 should be housed in winter for security. 



30. Teucrium Betonicum ; Hoary Germander. Leaves 

 lanceolate, crenate, tomentose, hoary beneath ; racemes ter- 

 minating ; flowering-stem brachiate. This is a handsome 

 undershrub, about three feet high ; flowers crimson. This 

 species, with Heterophyllum and Abutiloides, are interme- 

 diate between Teucrium and Ajuga. Perhaps on account of 

 the tube of the corolla being very much lengthened out, and 

 the upper lip scarcely emarginate and not cloven, they would 

 more properly range with the Ajugas, unless we were to sink 

 that genus in Teucrium. Native of Madeira. It may be 

 increased both by seeds and cuttings, but requires the pro- 

 tection of a green-house in winter. 



31. Teucrium Scordium; Water Germander. Leaves 

 oblong, sessile, tooth-serrate ; flowers axillary, in pairs, pe- 

 duncled ; stem diffused. Root perennial, creeping; corolla 

 pale purple or pink. The whole plant is bitter, and slightly 

 aromatic, and may be used with advantage in weak relaxed 

 constitutions. It is useful in female obstructions, intermitting 

 fevers, scrofulous complaints, the gout, and rheumatism, for 

 all which purposes a strong infusion appears to be the most 

 eligible preparation. A decoction is a good fomentation in 

 gangrenous cases. It has a strong disagreeable scent, some- 

 what approaching to Garlic. It was once in high esteem as an 

 antiseptic and alexiphurmic, to which it certainly had no claim. 

 Bergius states it to be anteputrediuous, tonic, diaphoretic, 

 and resolvent. Others recommend it to be employed exter- 

 nally in antiseptic cataplasms, and fomentations. Cnllen says 

 it has a bitter joined with some volatile parts. Sheep and 

 goats are reputed to eat this plant ; horses, cows, and hogs, 

 to reject it: when cows eat it through hunger, it gives the 

 flavour of Garlic to their milk. Grows in marshy places, in 

 various parts of Europe; but rare in England, except in the 

 isle of Ely. 



32. Toucrium Chamsedrys ; Common or Wall Germander. 

 Leaves subovate, petioled, gash-crenate; flowers axillary, 

 peduncled, tern ; stem round, hairy. Root perennial, creep- 

 ing; corolla reddish-purple, with white globules. There are 

 two varieties, not worth describing. The fresh leaves are 

 bitter and pungent to the taste ; their powder destroys worms, 

 and a decoction of them is a good fomentation where the 



