Hardy Exotic Plants for Naturalization. 97 



Southern Europe. Herbaceous perennial ; 3 feet ; blue ; 

 summer ; seed or division. — Margins of shrubberies, 

 copses, or anywhere associated with the medium-sized 

 herbaceous plants in any soil. 



Austrian Speedwell. Veronica aicstriaca. Austria. 

 Herbaceous perennial ; i foot ; light blue ; summer ; seed 

 or division. — With the neater herbaceous plants on mar- 

 gins of shrubberies, banks, and slopes. 



Hoary Speedwell. Veronica incana. Russia. Her- 

 baceous perennial ; 2 feet ; blue ; summer ; seed or 

 division. — Rocky places, or bare banks in ordinary soil. 



THE SAGE FAMILY. 



Lemon Thyme. Thymus citriodorus. Dwarf ever- 

 green ; 4 to 6 inches ; ilowers inconspicuous ; division. — 

 Rocky and bare places, dry, sandy, or gravelly banks. 



Corsican Thyme. Thymus corsicus. Corsica. Ever- 

 green perennial; i inch; lilac; summer; seed or divi- 

 sion. — A very diminutive, strongly peppermint-scented 

 plant, that will creep about amidst the very dwarfest 

 vegetation in rocky places, and on moist banks. 



Variegated Common Garden Thyme. Thymus 

 vulgaris. Variegated garden variety; evergreen peren- 

 nial; I foot; purpKsh; summer; division. — Banks or 

 rocky places, in dry soil. 



Common Germander. Teucrium Chamadrys. Eu- 

 rope. Herbaceous perennial ; f foot ; purple ; summer ; 

 division. — Banks and fringes of shrubberies, among the 

 dwarfer herbaceous plants. 



Hyrcanian Germander. Teucrium hyrcanicum. 

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