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4. Spotted Ziamium. Xiamium maculatum, Liuu. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 2550.) 



Closely resembles the wldte L. iu every respect except in the colour of the 

 flower, which is purple-red instead of white, and in the ring of hairs in the 

 tube of the corolla, which is ti-ansverse instead of oblique. The leaves are 

 also more frequently marked in the centre with a broad white line or spot. 

 It is still very doubtful whether it may not be a mere variety of the white L., 

 with which I had formerly united it. 



With nearly the same geographical range as the white L., it is, however, 

 rather more southern. In Britain it is rare, and perhaps only introduced, 

 as it has been long cultivated in cottage gardens, and spreads readily by its 

 offsets. Fl. summer. 



5. Yello'w Iiamium.. Iiamium Galeobdolon, Crantz. 

 {Galeohdolon luteuni, Eng. Bot. t. 787. Archangel.) 



Stock perennial as in the two last, but the stems are longer and less 

 branched, often a foot and a half high. Leaves stalked, ovate, toothed, but 

 scarcely cordate. Flowers bright yellow, in dense axillary whorls ; the calyx- 

 teeth short ; the tube of the corolla scarcely longer than the calyx ; the 

 upper lip long and arched ; the lateral lobes of the lower lip narrow, but 

 not much smaller tlian the central one. Anthers glabrous as in some 

 exotic species, not hairy as in the other British ones. 



In woods and shady j^laces, in Europe and western Asia, extending north- 

 wards into southern Scandinavia. Not uncommon iu England and Ireland, 

 but rare, if really indigenous, in Scotland. Fl. spring and early summer. 



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, XVII. GERMANDER. TEUCRIIJM. 



Herbs or undershrubs, varying much in habit ; the flowers few in each 

 whorl, usually turned to one side. Calyx of 5 teeth, often arranged in two 

 nps. Corolla apparently without an upper hp ; the 2 upper lobes forming 

 2 small teeth, one on each side of the base of the lower lip, which has thus 

 5 lobes, the middle one large and concave. Stamens 4, protruding between 

 the two upper teeth of the corolla. 



A numerous genus, spread over aU parts of the world, and always known 

 by the shape of the corolla. 



Flowers all axillary. Calyx-teeth nearly equal 2. Water O. 



Flowers in terminal one-sided spikes or racemes. 



Flowers pale-yellow, 2 to each whorl. Calyx with 1 broad and 4 small 



teeth 1. Wood G. 



Mowers purple-red, 4 to 6 in each whorl. Calyx-teeth nearly equal . 3. Wall G. 



1. V^ood Germander. Teucrium Scorodonia, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1543. Wood Sage.) 

 Rootstock creeping, the stems ascending or erect, hairy, about a foot high, 

 shghtly branched, hard and almost woody at the base. Leaves stalked, 

 ovate or lanceolate, coarsely toothed, much wrinkled, downy, and green on 

 both sides. Flowers of a pale yellow, in pairs, with a small bract under 

 each pedicel, forming terminal and axillary one-sided racemes. LTpper tooth 

 of the calyx very broad and turned back, the 4 lower teeth small. Tube of 



