160 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Teucrium. 



This early flowering plant makes a rich and brilliant appearance 

 in the spring. Var. fl. double in gardens. 



Class XIV. DIDYNAMIA. Stamens 4 : 

 Two outermost lonoest. 



"IS 



Order I. GYMNOSPERMIA. Seeds apparently 

 naked ; four at most. 



AJUGA. Bugle. 



* Bugula. FL ivhorled blue. 



A. reptans. Common B. Almost smooth, with a soli- 

 tary stem, and creeping scyons. Lower lip of the 

 corolla four-cleft. E. B. 489- C. 2. 43. Bugula. 

 G. E. 631. 



PVoods, moist pastures. 



Per. Maj/. 



Stem erect, about one f., square, leafy. Scyons take root, here and 

 there, at the insertion of their Is. Ls. opposite, egg-shaped, scol- 

 loped, tapering into broad foot-stalks. Stem-Is. nearly stalkless, 

 in opposite cross pairs. -^7. in thick-set whorls : bract., purplish, 

 scolloj)ed. Cor. full blue, streaked with white : sometimes all 

 white, or flesh-coloured. Whole plant generally with a purplish 

 tinge. 

 Vulnerary according to the older writers ; hence the French had 



this expression: — Those who have Bugle, and Sanicle, need no 



surgeon. Almost any other leaf would probably answer the same 



indication of excluding the air, and healing a wound, by what 



siu'geons call ihe first intention. 



(A. Chamce'pitys, E. B. 77* Uflford, near Helpston 

 Stone-Pits, Northamptonshire. Morton.^ 



TEU'CRIUM. Germander. 



T. Scorodonia. Wood G. Wood Saye. Leaves heart- 

 shaped, hairy, saw-toothed, stalked. Clusters crowded, 

 leaning to one side. Stem erect. E. B. 1543. C. 

 5. 40. Scorodonia seu Salvia ag-restis. G. E. 662. 



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JVoods, heathy, bushy places. 

 Per. July. 



