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leaves scarcely smaller than root-leaves. Flowers deep blue, 

 handsome, rarely pink, in a long, irregular spike. Bracts crenate, 

 or trifid, often bluish. Calyx wooUy, with lanceolate teeth, longer 

 than the tube. 



Dry places, especially on limestone hills. May to August. 



Distribution. — Europe, Western and Northern Asia. 



This beautiful plant is much more worth cultivating in gardens 

 and on rockeries than the last, which figures in most nurserymen's 

 catalogues. Bentham, in his Handbook of the British Flora, com- 

 bined the two species under A. genevensis L. and the " Kew 

 Hand-list," fell into the same error. The two plants are quite dis- 

 tinct, and pyramidalis cannot be considered even an Alpine variety 

 of the other. 



Ajuga reptans L. Common Bugle. 



This well-known and widely spread plant is as frequent in the 

 lower Swiss mountains as in England. The plant is glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate or obovate, crenate, wrinkled and shining above. 

 Flowers blue, or rarely pink or white. Known by its long, leafy 

 stolons. 



Wet meadows and woods. May, June. 



Distribution. — Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia ; 

 Western Asia, Algeria. 



Teucrium L. Germander. 



Herbs or under-shrubs, varying much in habit. Flowers few in 

 each whorl. Corolla apparently without an upper lip, the 2 upper 

 lobes forming 2 small teeth, one on each side of the base of the 

 lower lip, which has thus 5 lobes. Stamens 4, protruding between 

 the two upper teeth of the coroUa. 



A large genus spread all over the globe. 



Teucrium montanum L. 



Stock woody, sending out many procumbent stems and forming 

 great mats sometimes a foot across, densely covered with small 

 leaves and yellowish white flowers, which grow in terminal heads. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, white tomentose beneath ; lower 

 leaves oblong. All the leaves are green above and slightly rolled 

 in at the borders. 



Rocks and limestone hills ; common, and extending well into the 

 Alpine zone. July, August. 



Distribution.-~C&a.txal and Southern Europe ; Asia Minor. 



Teucrium pyrenaicum L. 



Almost woody at the base, tufted, softly woolly. Stem slender, 

 procumbent, rooting at the base. Leaves nearly orbicular, deeply 

 crenate. Flowers large, upper lip purple, lower lip yellow, toothed. 



