Teucrium.] LABIATE. 331 



16. TEUCRIUM, L. Germander. 



Herbs. Whorls with leafy bracts or in leafy unilateral racemes or 

 spikes ; flowers proterandrous, honeyed. Calyx tubular or campanulate ; 

 teeth 5, equal or the upper broader and rettexed. Corolla-tube short, 

 naked within ; limb obliquely 5-lobed ; 2 upper lobes very small, 2 lateral 

 larger, lowest largest, rounded or oblong, often concave. Stamens 4, 2 

 lower longest, protruded between the upper corolla-lobes »; anther-cells 

 confluent. Style-lobes subequal. Nutlets subglobose, smooth reticulate or 

 pitted, base obliquely truncate. — Distrib. Temp, and warm regions ; 

 species 100. — Etym. The ancient name. 



Section 1. Scorodo'nia, M cench (gen.). Whorls 2-fld . , in terminal 

 branched 1-sided racemes. Upper lip of calyx much dilated. 



1. T. Scorodo'nia, L. ; leaves all shortly petioled ovate-cordate 

 crenate, bracts short, calyx gibbous at the base. Wood Sage. 



Stony copses, heaths, hedges, and soils, N. to Orkney ; ascends to 1,500 ft. in 

 Northumbd. ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July-Sept. — Perennial, finely 

 pubescent or hairy. Rootstock woody, stoloniferous. Stems 8-24 in., tufted, 

 usually ascending, rigid. Leaves 1-1^ in., in distant pairs, rarely laeiniate. 

 Racemes 3-6 in., branched at the base ; bracts petioled, green ; bracteoles ; 

 pedicels short. Calyx broadly campanulate, reticulate in fruit ; lobes cus- 

 pidate, 4 lower small incurved subulate. Corolla § in., ochreous. Stamens 

 purplish, 2 longer deflexed after dehiscence. Nutlets subglobose, smooth. — 

 Distrib. Europe, except Russia, N. Africa. — Bitter, aromatic, tonic; a 

 substitute for hops. 



Section 2. Scor'dium, Benth. Whorls 2-6-fld. ; bracts leaf-like. 

 Upper lip of calyx equal to or rather larger than the lower. 



2. T. Scor'dium/Z. ; leaves sessile oblong coarsely serrate, calyx nearly 

 equal at the base, teeth nearly equal. Water Germander. 



Wet meadows, chiefly in the E. counties, very rare ; York, Lincoln to Suffolk, 

 Berks, Northampton, Cambridge, Devon ; Ireland, very rare ; Channel 

 Islands ; fl. July-Aug. — Perennial, foetid, hairy woolly and glandular. 

 Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stem 4-10 in., branched from the base, 

 erect or prostrate, leafy. Leaves f-l| in., base narrowed rounded or cordate. 

 Bracts leaf -like, sometimes auricled at the base (T. scordioi'des, Bab., not 

 Schreber) ; bracteoles ; pedicels short. Calyx-teeth straight, short, 

 triangular. Corolla § in., rose-purple ; lower lip spotted. Nutlets wrinkled. 

 — Distuib. Europe, 1ST. Africa, N. and W. Asia, N.W. Himalaya. 



3. T. Bo'trys, L. ; leaves all petioled triangular-ovate pinnatifid, 

 calyx saccate at the base, teeth equal. 



Chalky fields, Surrey, very rare; (a colonist? Baker); fl. Aug. — Annual, 

 pubescent and glandular with long hairs. Stem 4-8 in., erect, much 

 branched from the base, leafy. Leaves ^-1 in.,-fiegments 3-5 pair, linear, 

 obtuse, lower again lobed; nerves prominent beneath. Bracts leaf -like. 

 Calyx large, glandular, inflated and reticulate in fruit ; lobes triangular, 



