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crowded into a spike. Well marked by its solitary tapering flower- 

 stalk, 4-9 inches high, and creeping scions. The flowers are blue, 

 and the upper bract-like leaves tinged with the same colour. White 

 and flesh-coloured varieties are occasionally found. Moist meadows 

 and woods ; conuuon. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



2. A. chamcepitys (Yellow Bugle, Ground Pine). — A tufted, 

 much-branched plant, 4-6 inches high, with reddish-purple, viscid 

 stems, and hairy leaves, divided into three narrow lobes, the outer 

 ones sometimes again divided. The flowers are yellow, spotted with 

 red, in axillary pairs. Its habit is very different from that of the 

 preceding. Sandy fields in Kent, Essex, and Surrey. — Fl. May, 

 June. — Perennial. 



3. A. pyramidalis (Pyramidal Bugle). — A rare Highland species, 

 distinguished from Common Bugle by being without scions, and 

 by bearing its whorls of flowers crowded= into 4-sided spikes. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



7. Teucrium {Germander) 



1. T. scorodonia (Wood-Germander, Wood-sage). — Root-stock 

 creeping ; stem erect ; leaves heart-shaped, oblong, stalked, wrinkled ; 

 flowers in i-sided, spike-like clusters. A common woodland plant, 

 2 feet high, with sage-like leaves, and several one-sided clusters of 

 srnall greenish-yellow flowers. The whole plant is very bitter, and 

 has been used as a substitute for hops. Woods and hedges ; 

 common. — Fl. June to August. Perennial. 



2. T. scordiwn (Water Germander). — A rare species, growing in 

 marshy ])laces. It is only a few inches high, has creeping scions, 

 and bears its flowers, which are purplish red, in distant whorls. 

 This plant was formerly employed in medicine as a tonic and a 

 protection against infectious diseases ; now, however, it is scarcely 

 used, except by rustic practitioners. Wet, marshy places ; rare. 

 • — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3. T. chamcedrys (WaU Germander). — Another rare species; 

 stem scarcely branched, woody below, 6-8 inches high ; flowers 

 purple, with dark lines, large and handsome, growing in whorls of 

 2-6 ; leaves ovate, toothed, hairy. Found in a few places as a 

 garden escape on old walls. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



4. T. hotrys (Cut-leaved Germander). — A rare species, with stems 

 4-9 inches high ; with stalked leaves, ovate in outline, deeply 

 divided into narrow lobes, and downy ; floiccrs j)ink, in axillary 

 whorls of 4-6. Found in Surrey ; very rare. — Fl. August. Annual, 



