210 LABIATE. [Teucrium. 



the upper lip broader and emarginate. Name from \VKO<?, a 

 wolf, and aw, a foot, from a fancied resemblance, in the cut 

 leaves of this plant, to a wolf's paw. Der IVolfsfuss, in 

 Germ. ; in English, Gipsy-wort, because the plant yields a 

 black dye, which is employed by gipsies to render their 

 skin darker. JDiandria. Monogynia. 



1. L. europceus, Linn. Common Gipsy-wort or Water 



Horehound. Leaves deeply serrated. Br. Fl. 1. p. 10. E. Fl. 



v. i. p. 34. E. Bot. t. 1105. 



Ditches and river banks, frequent. FL June, July. 1. Leaves 

 opposite, nearly sessile, ovato-lanceolate, wrinkled, very deeply sinuato- 

 serrate, almost pinnatifid. Flowers small, sessile, in dense whorls at 

 the base of the superior leaves, whitish with purple dots, hairy within. 



3. AJUGA. Linn. Bugle. 



Calyx 5-cleft, nearly equal. Corolla tubular, labiate ; the upper 

 lip very small, and with two teeth ; the lower one 3-lobed, 

 with a large intermediate obcordate lobe. Stamens protruded 

 above the upper lip. Name altered from Abiga, (abigo, to 

 drive away) of the Latins, a medical plant allied to this. 



Didynamia. Gymnospermia. 



1. A. reptans, Linn. Common Bugle. Almost smooth, 

 with a solitary stem and creeping runners; lower lip of the 

 corolla 4-cleft. Br. FL 1. p. 273. E. FL v. iii. p. 65. E. Bot. 

 t. 489. 



Moist pastures and woods, abundant. FL May, June. % . Stem 

 a span high, erect, leafy. Leaves obovate, upper ones sessile ; whorls 

 several. Flowers blue (sometimes white or flesh-coloured). 



2. A. alpina, Linn. Alpine Bugle. Leaves nearly glabrous, 

 unequally toothed, all nearly of the same size ; whorls of flowers 

 rather distant. Br. FL 1. p. 273. E. FL v. iii. p. 65. E. 

 Bot. t. 477. 



Mountains, rare. Summit of Benyevena, Magilligan, County of 

 Derry ; Mr. Z). Moore y whose specimens appear more dwarf than the 

 figure in E. Bot. but otherwise pretty well agree. Fl. July. 1. 



4. TEUCRIUM. Linn. Germander. 



Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, nearly equal, or 2-lipped. Corolla 

 with the tube shorter |than the calyx ; upper lip bipartite, 

 lower one patent, trifid. 1 Stamens much exserted. Cells of 

 the Anthers confluent, spreading. Named from Teucer, 

 Prince of Troy, who first employed this plant medicinally. 



Didynamia. Gymnospermia. 



1. T. Scorodonia, Linn. Wood Germander. Leaves heart- 

 shaped, hairy, serrated, stalked ; racemes aggregate, unilateral; 



