3 70 L abiata Tcucrium. 



one of the 3 lower ones largest and elongated. Stamens 4, 

 exceeding the corolla, the lower 2 longest. The species are 

 numerous and widely dispersed. One, T. Scorodonia, Wood- 

 Sage, is a common British plant. It has Sage-like leaves and 

 one-sided terminal racemes of small yellowish white flowers. 

 Two or three other species are met with in some parts of 

 England, but they are very rare, and probably escapes from old 

 gardens, having been formerly cultivated as medicinal herbs, 

 under the name of Grermander. The generic name is of a 

 classical origin. 



1. T. Hyrcdnicum. An erect hairy perennial from 1 to 2 

 feet high with cordate-ovate irregularly toothed leaves and 

 terminal spikes of reddish purple flowers. A native of Persia. 



T. Pyrenaicum is a distinct species with rotundate crenate 

 petiolate leaves and clustered terminal purple and white 

 flowers. 



Ajuga reptans, common Bugle, is exceedingly abundant 

 in many parts of Britain. It is a creeping almost glabrous 

 plant with ovate crenate leaves and loose bracteate spikes of 

 blue, white or reddish flowers, in which the short upper lip of 

 the corolla is nearly entire. Some of the varieties are grown 

 in gardens. 



ORDER LXXXV. LENTIBULAEINE.E!. 



A small group of aquatic and marsh herbs with radical or 

 whorled entire or deeply cut often bladdery leaves. Flowers 

 scapose, solitary, spicate or racemose. Calyx inferior, per- 

 sistent, bilabiate or regularly 5-toothed. Corolla deciduous, 

 personate or bilabiate. Stamens 2, opposite the lateral sepals, 

 inserted on the corolla or hypogynous. Capsule 1 -celled ; 

 seeds minute and numerous, attached to a free basal placenta. 

 This order contains 4 genera and about 150 species. There 

 are two British genera, which may be introduced into the 

 garden as objects of curiosity. Pincjuicula vulgaris, Butter- 

 wort, is a bog plant with rosulate entire radical leaves and 

 erect axillary one-flowered naked scapes. The flowers are 

 purplish, with a ringent spurred corolla and stamens inserted 

 at the base of the tube. The variety grandiflbra is the 

 handsomest. The generic name is from pinguis, fat, from the 

 appearance of the foliage. Utricularia is a genus of floating 

 }>erbs with divided vesiculate leaves and personate spurred 



