LXXXVI. 



TEUCRIUM SCORDIUM. 



Water Germander. 



Class, &c. See Wall Germander. 



SrEC. Char. Leaves oblong, sessile, downy, serrated. 

 Flowers few, axillary, stalked. Stem procumbent. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek (tKo^io<i. 



CScorcflum. Bauh. Pin. 247. Ger. Em. 661. Rail Syn. 246. 



j Dod. Pempt. 126. Fuchs^ 776. 



\ Scordium legitimura. Park. Tkeatr. 111. 



I^Teucrium Scordium. Lin. Sp. PI. 790. Eng. Fl. iii. p. 68. 



French .... Scordium ; Germaudree aquatique. 



Italian .... Scordeo. 



Spanish and ) r, ,. 

 ■^ \ Lscordio. 



Porturmese. ' 



German... . Knoblauehs gamander ; Wasserkiioblaucb ; Skordienkraud. 



Dutch Waterlook. 



Danish . . . Skordium ; Loegsurt. 



Swedish.. . . Gamander. 



Polish .... Czosnkowc ziele. 



Lithuanian Embutti. 



Bohemian .. Woduj czessnek. 



Arabic .... Scordeon. 



Description. — The root is perennial, creeping, and fibrous. 

 The stem is procumbent, branched, quadrangular, hairy, and 

 about a foot in length. 'I'he leaves are opposite, sessile, oblong, 

 obtuse, downy, soft, nerved, deeply serrated, and of a light 

 green colour. The flowers are few, mostly two in the axil of 

 each leaf, pedunculate, and rather small. The calyx is tubular, 

 hairy, striated, with five nearly equal, ovate, acute teeth. The 

 corolla is small, and of a pale purple colour ; in other respects 

 nearly resembling Wall Germander. Plate 23, fig. 2, (a) calyx ; 



