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kept clear from weeds till Michaelmas, the plants should be 

 removed where they are designed to remain. 



44. Teucrium Spinosum; Thorny Germander. Thorny: 

 upper lip of the calices ovate ; corollas resupine ; peduncles 

 in pairs. Annual. Native of the hills and fields of Portugal. 



45. Teucrium Corymbiferum ; Corymbiferous Germander. 

 Frutescent : leaves oblong, crenate, cinereous; flowers co- 

 rymbed, capitate; peduncles leafy. Native of Barbary. 



46. Teucrium Lffivigatum; Smooth Germander. Lower 

 leaves multitid, upper three-parted ; peduncles solitary, length 

 of the leaves. Herbaceous. The whole plant is very smooth. 

 Native of Buenos Ayres. 



47. Teucrium Trifoliatum ; Three-leaved Poley. Heads 

 roundish, loose; leaves tern, oblong, revolute, crenate in 

 front, tomentose ; stems a span high, ascending, hoary, muri- 

 cated from the fallen leaves. Native of Spain and Barbary. 



48. Teucrium Gnaphalodes. Flowers solitary, clustered; 

 leaves linear, revolute, crenate, both they and the calices 

 woolly. Native of Spain. 



49. Teucrium Villosum ; Villose Germander. Leaves 

 elliptic, ovate, acuminate, serrate, petioled, villose ; raceme 

 spiked, terminating; calices inflated. Native of Tongataboo 

 in Australasia. 



50. Teucrium Undulatum; Wave-leaved Germander. Leaves 

 oblong, waved, subcrenate; corymb terminating; stem shrub- 

 by, upright, round, five feet high.' Native of Cochin-china, 

 in hedges. 



51. Teucrium Thea ; Tea Germander. Leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate; stem procumbent; peduncles axillary, three-flow- 

 ered ; flowers white. Native of Cochin-china among bushes, 

 where the natives use it as tea, to promote digestion, and 

 to relieve an overloaded stomach. 



52. Teucrium Trifidum; Trijid-leaved Germander. Leaves 

 lanceolate, trifid ; peduncles axillary, three-flowered ; stem 

 four-cornered, rough, hairy, branched, leafy; corolla pur- 

 plish Native of the Cape. 



53. Teucrium Parviflorum; Small-flowered Germander. 

 Leaves multifid, linear ; raceme decompounded ; pedicels 

 elongated, divaricating. Native of Armenia. 



54. Teucrium Brevifolium; Short-leaved Germander. 

 Leaves lanceolate, revolute, quite entire, obtuse, hoary ; 

 flowers solitary; calices awnless. Native of Candia. 



55. Teucrium Regium ; Royal Germander. Leaves ovate, 

 toothed in front; floral leaves quite entire, sessile; whorls 

 racemed ; stem branched. Native of Spain. 



56. Teucrium Japonicum ; Japanese Germander. Leaves 

 ovate, doubly serrate ; racemes terminating ; bractes length 

 of the calix. Native of Japan. 



57. Teucrium Salviastrum ; Sage-like Germander. Leaves 

 oval, crenulate, wrinkled, tomentose beneath, petioled ; raceme 

 directed one way. Root perennial, woody ; stem erect, pubes- 

 cent, somewhat clammy. Native of Portugal. 



58. Teucrium Scordioides ; Scordium-like Germander. 

 Leaves oblong, cordate, embracing, crenate, lanuginose ; 

 flowers axillary ; peduncles in pairs ; root perennial ; flowers 

 larger. Native of Candia. 



59. Teucrium Nitidum ; Glittering Germander. Leaves 

 ovate, crenate; floral-leaves quite entire; whorls halved, 

 racemed ; stem bearded in two rows; corolla purple. Native 

 of Barbary. 



60. Teucrium Thymifolium ; Thyme-leaved Germander. 

 Heads terminating, few-flowered ; leaves petioled, ovate, 

 obtuse, tomentose beneath ; stem procumbent ; corolla purple. 

 Native of the kingdom of Valencia in Spain. 



61. Teucrium Rotundifolium ; Round-leaved Germander. 

 Corymbs terminating ; leaves roundish, crenate, villose ; stem 



shrubby, decumbent, or hanging from the rocks. Native 01 

 mountains in the kingdom of Valencia in Spain. 



62. Teucrium Buxifolium ; Box-leaved Germander. Co- 

 rymbs terminating ; leaves oval, wrinkled, crenate at the end, 

 villose. Native of the kingdom of Valencia. 



63. Teucrium Flavescens ; Sulphur-coloured Germander. 

 Heads roundish ; and leaves linear-lanceolate, crenate in front, 

 tomentose, summits yellow. This is confounded with Yellow 

 Germander, and agrees with it in stature, in the whiteness 

 and delicacy of the wool on the stem and leaves, and in hav- 

 ing the leaves crenate, with a narrower entire base, which 

 however is wider on the flowering-branches : but it differs in 

 having the leaves narrower bnd lanceolate, the heads small 

 and few-flowered; the calix shorter, clothed not with hairs, 

 but with a close nap, neither angular nor keeled ; and the 

 tops are not of a gold, but of an elegant sulphur-colour. 

 Native of the south of France. 



64. Teucrium Valentinum ; Valencia Germander. Heads 

 roundish, shortly peduncled; leaves linear, crenate; stem 

 erect, hoary. Native of Valencia. 



65. Teucrium Lusitanicum ; Portuguese Germander. 

 Heads loose ; leaves linear, obtuse, crenulate, hoary ; stem 

 pubescent, corymbife rous ; root woody; flowers erect, the 

 lower ones spreading; corolla white. Native of Portugal. 



66. Teucrium Pycnophyllum ; Thick-leaved Germander. 

 Heads roundish ; leaves linear, revolute, crenate in front, 

 clustered, they and the stem densely tomentose. The whole 

 plant is covered with a very thick white nap; corolla white. 

 Native of Spain. 



67. Teucrium Verticillatum ; Whorled Germander. Head 

 roundish, sessile; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, revolute, 

 whorled ; stem erect, both tomentose. Native of Spain in the 

 kingdom of Valencia. 



68. Teucrium Libanitis ; Rosemary-leaved Germander. 

 Spikes roundisli ; leaves clustered, linear, revolute, quite 

 entire, they and the stem tomentose. Native of Spain. 



69. Teucrium Angustissimum ; Narrow-leaved Germander. 

 Heads terminating, hairy ; leaves linear, quite entire, almost 

 naked ; stem erect. Native of Spain. 



70. Teucrium Coeleste. Heads terminating, tomentose; 

 leaves linear, quite entire, hoary; stem erect. Native of 

 Spain, in the kingdom of Valencia. 



Thalia; a genus of the class Monandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER.-' Calix: perianth, scales three, 

 very small, ovate, ciliate, permanent, crowning the germen. 

 Corolla : petals five, superior, shrivelling, in a double row ; 

 three outer longer, oblong, waved, connate at the base, 

 spreading; the two inner smaller, from erect spreading, 

 oblong, connate with each other and the nectary at the 

 base ; nectary petal-shaped, opposite to the smaller petals, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, concave. Stamina: filamentUm one, 

 awl-shaped, inserted into the nectary; anthera club-shaped. 

 Pistil: germen turbinate, crowned with the calix; style 

 filiform, bent in; stigma leafy, bent in. Pericarp: drupe 

 oblong, gibbous, one-celled. Seed: one, awl-shaped, bent 

 in. Nut: bony, two-celled? ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix : three-leaved. Corolla : five-petalled, two inner petals 

 less. Nectary: lanceolate, concave. Drupe: with a one- 

 celled nut. The species are, 



1. Thalia Geniculata. Corollas five-petalled; nectary 

 lanceolate ; stem taller than a man, quite simple. The 

 American Indians use it as a dart to kill animals. Native 

 of South America, and the West Indies. 



2. Thalia Cannseformis. Corollas six-petalled : nectary 

 bifid, erect; culm solid, round, smooth, branched ; branches 

 jointed, divaricating. Native of Mallicollo, one of the New 



