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used much by cooks on account of its very sweet, pleasant, 

 and aromatic flavor. 



GERMANDER. TEUCRIUM. 



WOOD GERMANDER, or WOOD-SAGE. Teucrium scorodonia. 

 Plate 8, fig. 10. 



The Wood- Sage rears its compound spikes of flowers among 

 the bushes of dry thickets and heaths in July and August. 

 The flowers are of the most delicate cream- color, and the four 

 long stamens of a fine red. The calyx is five-cleft, with the 

 upper division much larger than the rest. The leaves stalked, 

 hairy, long heart-shaped, crenate, and very much wrinkled, 

 like a sage leaf, and from this the plant is called Wood- Sage. 

 Its taste is very bitter, and it grows two feet high. 



O. S. Water Germander and Wall Germander both rare plants. 



BUGLE. AJUGA. 



COMMON BUGLE. Ajuga reptans. 



Plate 8, fig. 11. 



The sides of ditches and the moist parts of meadows and 

 woods is where it grows from April to June its time of 

 flowering three to six inches its usual height. The lower 

 part of the stem lies on the ground, the flowering part is upright. 

 Leaves nearly smooth, fleshy, without stalks, ovate, crenate, 

 near together, and often tinged with purple. Flowers five or 

 six to each pair of leaves, blue or sometimes pink. 



O. S. Pyramidal Bugle and Alpine Bugle both rare Scottish plants ; 

 Ground Pine or Yellow Bugle, not uncommon in the sandy fields of Kent 

 and Surrey. 



BLACK HOREHOUND. BALLOTA. 



COMMON BLACK HOREHOUND. Ballota nigra. 



Plate 8, fig. 12. 



To be found in almost every hedge around London and 

 other cities and towns throughout the Summer and Autumn ; 

 a stiff, straggling, branched, upright plant, not very handsome, 

 with purple flowers that soon fall off, many of them together, 



