TEUCRIUM.] LABIATE. 331 



16. TEU'CRIUM, 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 reflexed. 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, Mcsnch (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. Eootstock woody, stoloniferous. Stems 8-24 in., tufted, 

 usually ascending, rigid. Leaves 1-If in., in distant pairs, rarely laciniate. 

 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 Kussia, 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, fostid, hairy woolly and glandular. 

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

 erect or prostrate, leafy. Leaves -! in., base narrowed rounded or cordate. 

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

 Schreber); bracteoles 0; pedicels short. Calyx-teeth straight, short, 

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

 DISTUIB. Europe, N. 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., segments 3-5 pair, linear, 

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

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



