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[ Teiicrium. 



M.) 



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panicled crowded, bracteas ovate longer than the calyx c-ilv 

 equally o-toothed, hairy in the throat, leaves stalked hxoJt 

 ovate obtuse entire or toothed. E. B. t. 1143. ■' 



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Dry hilly and busliy places, not unfrequent. 1^. 7 9, ^^ 



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

 Fragrant and aromatic. 



[Ongamt?n Onites L., or Fot Marjoram, is mentioned in Ray's Sv 

 nopsis, p. 236, as having been found by Mr. Dale " on the left hand 

 of the road from Braintreeto Ilaine (Essex), beyond the bridge ;" hut 

 It cannot be indigenous there, being entirely a Mediterranean plant ■ 

 the calyx is cleft in front; its upper lip is large and orbicular, lower 

 nearly wanting.] 



Tribe III. Ajvgoidt.j1^. Corolla ij^regular; upper Up ahhre^ 

 viated or apparently icaiiting. Stamens much exserted^ didjj^ 

 namous, parallel^ ascending; the two lower ones the lono-est 



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6. Teucrium Linn. Germander. 



Cal. tubular, 5-toothed, nearly equal or 2-lipped. Cok with 

 the upper llj) bipartite; lower one patent, 3-fid. Stufn. much 

 exserted. Cells of the anthers confluent, spreading, — J^amed 

 from Teucer, Prince of Troy, who is said to have first employed 

 this plant medicinally. 



1. T. Scorodoiiia L. (WoodG.); leaves oblong-ovate cordate 

 at the base petiolate downy crenate green on both sides, floral 

 ones small about the length of the pedicels, flowers in lateral and 

 terminal one-sided racemes, calyx sub-bilabiate, upper lip ovate 

 entire lower 4-toothed, tube of the corolla exserted, stem erect 

 JS. B. t. 1543. 



_ Woods and dry stony places, frequent. U. 7, 8 Stems 1—2 ft 



bigh. Ze«?;es very much wrinkled. 77o2fers vellowish-white Stam 

 purphsh-red The plant is extremely bitter, ^nd has been sometimes' 

 substituted for hops. 



"l.T Scordium L. {Water G.) ; herbaceous perennial pro- 

 cumbent at the base villous rarely glabrous, leaves oblon"- or 

 ovate-oblong toothed sessile green on both sides, floral ones 

 smiilar whorls axillary 2- 6-flowered, calyx declinate cam- 

 panulate gibbous at the base on the under side, the teeth 

 sliort nearly equal. - a. leaves narrow or rounded at the base. 

 I. palustre Zam. — /?. leaves shorter cordate-amplexicaul at 

 the base. E. B. t. 828. T. scovdioides Schreb. 



Low wet meadows, rare. Near the bridge of Portumna, county 

 Tpperary, Ireland. Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire. 1£ 7 8 _ 

 Ihe var. a. is the plant of Linn^us ; but ul D. Moore (in Ibe 



property, 

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\i.i enti 

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