102 LABIATAE. Vor. III, 
*PERENNIAL SPECIES. 
1. Leaves toothed. 
} Flowers in terminal dense spike-like panicles. 
Calyx and bracts canescent, without long hairs. 
Leaves, at least the lower, obtuse or rounded at the base, not rugose-veined. 
1. T. canadense. 
Leaves narrowed at the base, rugose-veined, mostly narrowly lanceolate. 
2. T. littoraie. 
Calyx and bracts villous and often glandular-pubescent. 3. T. occidentale, 
tt Flowers in secund terminal spikes. 4. T. Scorodonia. 
2. Leaves laciniate; flowers axillary. 5. T. laciniatum, 
** ANNUAL SPECIES, with pinnatifid leaves and axillary flowers. 6. T. Botrys. 
1. Teucrium canadénse L. American 
Germander or Wood Sage. Fig. 3566. 
Teucrium canadense L. Sp. Pl. 564. 1753. 
Teucrium virginicum L. Sp. Pl. 564. 1753. 
Perennial, appressed-pubescent or canescent; 
stem erect, simple or somewhat branched, 
rather slender, 1°-2° tall. Leaves lanceolate, 
oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate at the apex, irregularly dentate, mostly 
rounded at the base, short-petioled, 14’-5’ 
long, 3’-2’ wide, glabrous or sparingly pubes- 
cent above, densely canescent beneath; spike 
usually dense, becoming 6-12" long in fruit, 
bracts canescent, the lower sometimes folia- 
ceous, the upper commonly not longer than the 
canescent calyx; flowers 6’-10” long, very 
short-pedicelled; calyx about 3” long in fruit, 
its three upper teeth obtuse or subacute. 
In moist thickets or along marshes, New Eng- 
land to Ontario, Minnesota, Florida, Kansas and 
Texas. Ascends to 2600 ft. in Virginia. Ground- 
pine. June—Sept. 
2. Teucrium littorale Bicknell. Narrow-leaved Germander, Fig. 3567. 
Teucrium littorale Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 28: 
169. I9g01, 
T. canadense var. littorale Fernald, Rhodora Io: 
84. 1908. 
Pale and canescent, 2° high or less, erect or 
assurgent, often with ascending branches. 
Leaves thickish and rugose-veiny, narrowly ob- 
long or sometimes broader, narrowed into the 
petiole, closely fine-serrate or becoming un- 
equally dentate-serrate, 24’-4’ long, #’-13’ wide; 
petioles 23’-5” long; spikes narrow, often in- 
terrupted; bracts about the length of the ca- 
lyx; calyx small, 2-23” high, becoming some- 
what gibbous-urceolate, the teeth short, the 
upper ones obtuse; corolla pale pink, about 
8” long, loosely pilose without. 
On or near the coast, Maine to Florida and 
Texas, north to Arkansas and Oklahoma. In- 
cluded in our first edition in T. canadense L., and 
there figured for that species. July—Aug. 
