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parts have a tendency to mortify. The leaves, when rubbed 

 betwixt the fingers, emit a strongish smell^ somewhat resem- 

 bling that of Garlic. They are recommended as being 

 excellent in malignant and pestilential fevers, and in weak- 

 ness and laxities of the stomach and intestines. The juice 

 expressed, with the addition of a little white wine of any kind, 

 is good in obstructions of the viscera; and given alone, is 

 an excellent worm medicine. It has been esteemed chiefly 

 as a mild aperient and corroborant, and was recommended 

 in uterine obstructions, intermitting fevers, rheumatism, and 

 gout. Of the last-mentioned complaint, the Emperor Charles 

 V. is said to have been cured by a vinous decoction of it, 

 with some other herbs, taken for sixty successive days. It 

 has been employed in various forms and combinations, of 

 which the Portland Powder is one of the most celebrated 

 instances. Its qualities seem nearly allied to those of Mar- 

 rubium or Horehound, and therefore it may be equally useful 

 in asthmatic affections, coughs, and infarctions of the lungs. 

 Native of many parts of Europe, the islands of the Archi- 

 pelago, and Palestine, near Jerusalem. In England it is 

 scarcely indigenous, being chiefly found on the ruins of old 

 buildings. 



33. Teucrium Heterophyllum ; White-leaved Tree German- 

 der. Leaves elliptic, crenate ; flowers lateral, solitary ; lip 

 of the corolla woolly on the outside ; branches with different 

 leaves; flowers purple, appearing in June. Native of 

 Madeira. 



34. Teucrium Lucidum ; Shining Germander. Leaves 

 ovate, acutely gash-serrate, smooth ; flowers axillary, tern ; 

 stem erect, even. Root perennial, putting forth runners, 

 whence rise the straight, smooth, blackish stems ; flowers 

 crimson. Native of the south of Europe. It may be increased 

 by cuttings, in the same manner as the nintli species ; also 

 by seeds, which are plentifully produced. Sow them on a 

 bed of light earth in April : they will come up in six weeks, 

 and may be transplanted in autumn, to where they are 

 intended to remain. 



35. Teucrium Flavum ; Yellow-flowered Shrubby German- 

 der. Leaves cordate, bluntly serrate ; bractes quite entire, 

 concave ; stem shrubby ; flowers racemed, tern ; corolla pale 

 yellow. Native of the south of Europe, and of Barbary. 



36. Teucrium Bracteatum ; Bracted Germander. Stem 

 erect, villose ; leaves cordate, crenate; bractes six or more, 

 ovate, acuminate, petioled; whorls distinct ; corolla purple. 

 It flowers early in the spring. Found on the uncultivated 

 hills near Mascar and Tlemsen. 



37. Teucrium Montanum ; Dwarf Mountain Germander. 

 Corymb terminating ; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, tomen- 

 tose beneath. A dwarf bushy shrub, like Thyme, with a 

 strong woody root, and many diffuse, downy, leafy stems ; 

 flowers white, appearing in June and July, but seldom suc- 

 ceeded by seeds in England. There is a variety with much 

 smaller leaves, hoary on their under side. Native of Ger- 

 many, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Piedmont. This, 

 and the four following species, are all abiding plants : they 

 may be propagated by seeds, which must be procured from 

 the countries where they naturally grow, because they sel- 

 dom perfect their seeds in England. They should be sown 

 upon abed of fresh light earth in the spring, and, when they 

 come up, be carefully kept clean from weeds. About the 

 middle of July the plants will be fit to remove, when they 

 may be carefully taken up, and part of them planted on a 

 warm border of dry rubbishy soil, observing to shade them 

 from the sun, and water them till they have taken new root, 

 after which they will require no other culture but to keep 

 them clean from weeds. My advising these, says Mr. Miller, 



and many other aromatic plants, which are natives of the 

 warmer parts of Europe, to be planted in rubbish, is founded 

 upon long experience of their abiding much longer, and resist- 

 ing the cold of our winters much better, than when they are 

 in better ground, where they grow much freer, are fuller of 

 moisture, and therefore more liable to be killed by frost. 



38. Teucrium Supinum ; Procumbent Germander. Corymb 

 terminating; leaves linear, rolled back at the edge; flowers 

 white. This is allied to the preceding species. Native of 

 the mountains of Austria. 



39. Teucrium Pyrenaicum ; Pyrenean Germander. Corymb 

 terminating; leaves cuneiform, orbicular, crenate. This has 

 slender shrubby stalks, which trail close upon the ground : 

 corolla large, one half purple, the other half white. It flowers 

 great part of the summer, but seldom produces seed here. 

 It grows naturally on the Pyrenean mountains. 



40. Teucrium Folium; Poley. Spikes roundish; leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, crenate, tomentose, sessile ; calix very woolly, 

 obtuse, pointless. The Common Poley has the stalks rather 

 herbaceous and trailing, about six inches long, and hoary : 

 the flowers are collected in oblong thick spikes at the end of 

 the branches; they are of a deep yellow colour, and appear 

 in June. It is a native of Spain. The Narrow-leaved Yel- 

 low Poley has woody stalks, erect, branching, and covered 

 with a hoary down, rising six or eight inches high ; flowers 

 collected in roundish spikes at the ends of the branches : they 

 are bright yellow, have woody calices, and appear in June 

 and July. Native of Spain and Portugal. There are other 

 varieties. 



41. Teucrium Capitatum ; Round-headed Germander. 

 Heads pedunclecl ; leaves lanceolate, crenate, tomentose ; 

 stem erect, shrubby, branched at the base; branches round, 

 tomentose, erect; flowers corymbed, headed, close; corolla 

 small, pale yellow, or white. There is a variety with an 

 erect branching stalk, which rises a foot high. The white 

 flowers collect in a corymb at the end of the branches, in 

 July and August. Native of France, Spain, Barbary, and 

 Si'lesia. 



42. Teucrium Bicolor; Two-coloured Chili Germander. 

 Leaves wedge-shaped, obtuse, undivided, or cut; flowers 

 axillary, solitary; calix nearly regular, with ten strong ribs. 

 Stem shrubby, six feet high, with square leafy branches, 

 covered with a very dense short pubescence; corolla exter- 

 nally hairy, white, the middle of its lower lip of a violet-red. 

 Gathered in the neighbourhood of Talcahuano, in Chili; 

 flowering in November and December. 



43. Teucrium Pumilum ; Dwarf Germander. Heads ter- 

 minating-, sessile ; leaves linear, flat, clustered four ways; 

 stem procumbent, tomentose. Native of hills in Spain, flow- 

 ering in July and August. This, and all the following spe- 

 cies, may be planted in small pots, filled with fresh light, 

 undunged earth, and placed in the shade until they havi: 

 taken new root; then they may be removed into an open 

 situation, where they may remain till the beginning of Novem- 

 ber, when they should be placed under a common frame, to 

 secure them from the frost in winter, which sometimes de- 

 stroys these plants: they may also be advantageously mixed 

 with Marum, and other aromatic plants, upon the sloping- 

 sides of banks exposed to the sun, or upon little hillocks in 

 a sheltered situation, where, by the variety of their hoary 

 branches, they will make a pretty appearance, and resist the 

 cold much better than when planted in a good soil. They 

 may also be increased by cuttings or slips, planted at the 

 beginning of April, just before they shoot, upon a border 

 exposed to the east ; if the season proves dry, they must be 

 watered and shaded until they have taken root; and being 



