GENUS 2. 



MINT FAMILY. 



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3. Teucrium occidentale A. Gray. Hairy 

 Germander. Fig. 3568. 



Teucrium occidentale A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: 349. 1878. 

 T. boreale Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 28: 171. 1901. 



Perennial, villous or pubescent; stem erect, rather 

 stout, usually much branched, l-3 high, the branches 

 ascending. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 thin, acute or acuminate at the apex, sharply den- 

 tate, mostly rounded at the base, usually slender- 

 petioled, i'-3i' long, i'-i*' wide; spikes dense, be- 

 coming 3 '-8' long in fruit; bracts lanceolate-subu- 

 late or the lower sometimes larger, villous and often 

 glandular; calyx and axis of the spike villous- 

 pubescent and often glandular, the 3 upper calyx- 

 teeth acute or acutish; corolla 4"-6" long. 



In moist soil, Maine and Ontario to eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, British Columbia, Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico 

 and California. July-Sept. 



4. Teucrium Scorodonia L. Wood Germander. 

 Fig. 3569- 



Teucrium Scorodonia L. Sp. PI. 564. 1753. 



Perennial, villous-pubescent, 2 high or less, the branches erect- 

 ascending. Leaves mostly ovate, i'-2\' long, obtuse or acute at 

 the apex, cordate or subtruncate at the base, crenate, the petioles 

 2|"-7" long; racemes narrow, rather loosely flowered, often 5' 

 long, the flowers secund, mostly in pairs, the pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, equalling or shorter than the ovate, acute or 

 acuminate bracts; calyx veiny, the upper tooth broad; corolla 

 light yellow, 3 "-4" long. 



A weed in cultivated fields, Ontario, and reported from Ohio. Ad- 

 vmtive from Europe. June-Sept. 



5. Teucrium laciniatum Torr. Cut-leaved 

 Germander. Fig. 3570. 



Teucrium laciniatum Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2 : 231. 

 1828. 



Melosmon laciniatum Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1019. 

 1903. 



Diffusely branched from a woody perennial 

 root, i high or less, densely leafy, glabrous, or 

 nearly so. Leaves li' long or less, pinnately 

 parted into 3-7 stiff, linear, entire, toothed or 

 lobed segments; flowers solitary in the upper 

 axils, as long as the subtending leaves or shorter, 

 shor t-peduncled ; calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate, nearly equal; corolla pale 

 blue or lilac, about 9" long, its lower lobes much 

 longer than the calyx. 



Plains, Kansas and Colorado to Texas and Ari- 

 zona. May-Aug. 



