No. 425, 
VERONICA TEUCRIUM. 
A hardy herbaceous plant of uncommon 
beauty, flowering in abundance the begin- 
ning of summer. It is a native of Germany, 
France, and Switzerland, and has been long 
cultivated in this country, being easily 
propagated by dividing the roots, and 
flourishing in any soil, either in a pot or out. 
Much confusion attends the history of 
this plant, which seems early to have at- 
tracted the attention of botanical writers 
and delineators. J. Bauhin's Chamædrys 
spuria angustifolia, is probably meant for 
it, but we should rather doubt the figure in 
Dodonzus’ Pemptades 45, being our plant. 
Gerarde’s Teucrium majus pannonicum 659, 
is more like it. These old writers laboured 
hard to prove that every plant was a remedy 
for some disease of the human frame. 
This and the other species of Veronica had 
each its particular virtue ascribed to it, but 
modern practitioners appear to have wholly 
discarded them. 
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