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long footstalks, three or four froiri the same 

 point : the calyx and anthers are of a pale 

 sulphur colour. It flowers froiii July to Sep- 

 tember. 



The third has large fleshy roots : the hranches 

 weak and trailing, generally decaying about 

 midsummer, and new shoots produced late in 

 autumn . the leaves come out in bunches ; they 

 are oval, plane, and not so thick and succulent 

 as in the other sorts; tliey are little mere than 

 an inch long, and half an inch hroad : the 

 flowers are produced from the wings of the 

 leaves m February ; they are like those of the 

 second sort, and have long slender footstalks. 

 It flowers in June and July. 



The fourth species has a biennial root : the 

 stem herbaceous, near the root dividing into 

 difl^used branches, rendered angular by the pe- 

 tioles running down them, scarcely a foot long: 

 the leaves succulent, spreading, an inch in 

 length : petioles shorter by half than the leaves : 

 the peduncles axillary, solitary, fiHform, co- 

 vered with shining bladders, purple, very short: 

 the Dowers pendulous, appearing as if frosted 

 with crystalline bladders. It llowers from May 

 to August. 



They are all natives of the Cape. 



Culture. — The first and fourth sorts may be 

 increased by cuttings, which should be cut oflT 

 from the plants a few days before they are 

 planted, that the part where they are cut may 

 be healed, setting them out in July, that they 

 may have time to make good roots before winter, 

 on a bed of fresh earth, shading them from the 

 sun in the heat of the day. They should after- 

 wards he frequently refreshed with water in smail 

 quantities. In a few weeks, when well rooted, 

 they should be taken up, and planted into pots 

 filled with light fresh undunged earth, and 

 placed in a shady situation until they have taken 

 new root, after which they may be placed with 

 other hardy exotic plants in a sheltered situation, 

 where they may remain till the middle or latter 

 end of October; at which time they should be 

 removed into the green-house, and placed where 

 they may enjoy as much free air as possible in 

 mild weather, as they only require to be pro- 

 tected from the frost', being pretty hardy with 

 respect to cold. As when planted in the full 

 ground in the sunmier season they are apt to 

 grow rank and large, or even when permitted 

 to root into the ground through the holes at the 

 bottom of the pots, the pots should be fre- 

 quently removed to prevent it, as they are in- 

 jured by it. 



, The first and second sorts are likewise capable 

 of being raised by seeds, sown in a gentle hot- 

 bed or m a wanii boi:der of light fresh earth, in 



the spring. When the plants are about four 

 iuciies high, they may be planted out in pots, 

 treating them in the same maniter as the cul- 

 tings. 



And the third sort will grow froiti cuttings 

 planted early u\ tbe spring, in the same man- 

 ner as the others. 



Thev alford ornament among other potted 

 plants. 



TEUCRIUM, a genus furnishing plants of 

 the under-shrubbv and herbaceous kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diili/nriinia. 

 Gijmnnspernun, and ranks in the natural order 

 of Fcrticillutce. 



The character's are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, half-five-eleft, acute, almost 

 equal, gibbous at the ba«e on one side, perma- 

 nent: the corolla one-pctail«l, ringent: tube 

 cvlindric, short, ending in an incurvated throat: 

 upjjer lip erect, acute, dci.-ply two-parted beyond 

 llie base; the segments at the sides distant: lower 

 lip spreading, trilid: the lateral segments of the 

 same form with the upper lip, almost erect; the 

 middle one very large, and. somewhat rounded : 

 the stamina have four awl-shaped filaments, 

 longer than the upper lip of the corolla and 

 ascending in the cleft of it, prominent: anthers 

 small: the pistillum is a four-parted germ: 

 style filiform, situation and size of the stamens: 

 stigmas two, slender: there is no pericarpium : 

 calyx unchanged, fostering the seeds at the 

 bottom: the seeds four, roundish. 



The species cultivated are: 1. T. jiavum. 

 Yellow-flowered Shrubby Germander; 2. T Sco- 

 rodrmia, Sasjc-leaved Germander, or Wood Sage ; 

 3. T. Canadcnse, Nettle-leaved Germander ; 4. 

 T. montaimm, Dwarf Momitain Germander ; 

 5. T. Pyrenaiami, Pyrenean Germander; 6. 7". 

 PoU/an, Foley; 7. T. capilalum, Round-headed 

 Germander ; 8.2'. pumi/um, Dwarf Germander ; 



9. T.fruticans, Narrow-leaved Tree Germander; 



10. 7". latijhliuni, Broad-leaved Tree German- 

 der; 11.7'. Cit'ticuin, Cretan Germander; 12. 

 T. Marum, Common Marum or Cat- thyme. 



The first has a shrubby, branched, pubescent 

 stem, often procumbent at the base: leaves ovate, 

 shinino; above, pubescent beneath, crenate, ob- 

 tuse, petioled ; the upper ones quite entire; 

 the whorls from two to six-flowered, distinct : 

 the flowers pedicelled. According to Miller, 

 they are of a dirty white colour, and appear in 

 July. It is a nntive of the South of Europe, &c,. 



There is a variety, which is hairy, with yel- 

 low flowers, with pale white flowers, and with 

 purjdc flowers. 



The second species has a perennial creeping 

 root : the stems a foot and half or two feet high, 

 four-corncredj nearly upright, hairy, leafy, hard. 



