Ajuga.] 



DIDYNAMIA — GYMNOSPERMI A. 229 



roundish patiicled crowded glabrous, bracteas ovate longer than 

 the calyx, leaves ovate entire. E. Bot. t. 1143. 



Dry hilly and bushy places, not unfreqiient. Fl. July, Aug. 1^. — 

 Stems 1 foot high. Flowers purple ; bracteas tinged with the same 

 colour. Fragrant and aromatic. 



" The Tlij'me strong-srenteil 'iieath one's feet, 

 And Marjoram so doubly sweet." — Clare. 



4. Teucrium. Linn. Germander. 



1. T. Scorodonia, L. (IFood Germander or Sage); leaves 

 cordate petiolate downy crenate, flowers in lateral and terminal 

 one-sided racemes, stem erect. E. Bot. t. 1543. 



Woods and dry stony places, frequent. FL July, Aug. U.— Stems 

 1 — 2 feet high. Leaves very much wrinkled. Flowers yellowish-white. 

 Sta}n. purplish-red. — The jdant is extremely bitter, and has been some- 

 times substituted for Hops. 



2. T. Scordium, L. ( Water Germander'); leaves oblong sessile 

 downy serrated, flowers few in the axils stalked, stem procum- 

 bent. E. Bot. t. 828. 



Low wet meadows, rare. Cambridgeshire ; near Highbridge, Oxford- 

 shire. Near Castle Lyons, and Portunma bridge, Tipperary. Fl. Julj^ 

 Aug. 7;. — Flowers rather small, pale purple. — Formerly much employ- 

 ed in medicine. 



3. T. * Chamcedrys, L. ( Wall Germander); leaves ovate inciso- 

 serrate tapering into a footstalk, flowers axillary in threes, stem 

 ascending. E. Bot. t. 680. 



Borders of fields and mostly ruined waUs; Winchelsea Castle, Sussex; 

 Gateshead, Durham ; city walls of Norwich ; plentiful. Near Torfar 

 and Kelly-Angus ; in Melhvin wood, Perthshire. Near Cork, Mr 

 Drummond. Fl. July. U.—Floicers reddish-purple, large, handsome, 

 mostly in the terminal axils. 



5. Ajuga. Li7m. Bugle. 



1. A. reptans, L. {cominon Bugle) ; glabrous or downy, stem 

 solitary with creeping scyons. E. Bot. t. 489. 



Moist pastures and woods, abundant. Fl. May, June. "U . — Leaves 

 broadly ovate, more or less crenate, lower ones and those on the runners 

 tapering into a footstalk. Flowering-stem erect, with sessile leaves. 

 Flowers blue (sometimes white or tlesh-coloured), in ivlwrls, from the 

 axils of the upper leaves or bracteas, which are often purphsh.j 



2. A. pi/ramiddlis, "L. (pyramidal Bugle); hairy, whorls crowd- 

 ed into a pyramidal and tetragonal form, scyons none, radical 

 leaves oblongo-obovate large more or less crenate. E. Bot. 



t. \-no. 



Highland pastures, rare. Ben Nevis ; plentiful at the Burn of Killi- 

 gower and on the Ord of Caithness. Tor Aiehaltie, near Brahan Cas- 

 tle, Ross-shire. Appin. Strath Erric, Inverness-shire. Isle of Lewis, 

 Mr R. B. Bowman. Fl. June. If. .—4 — 6 inches high. Leaves gradu- 

 ally becoming smaller from the base upwards. 



3. A. alpina, L. (alpine Bugle) ; leaves almost glabrous un- 



