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3. Teucrium occidentale A. Gray. Hairy 
Germander. Fig. 3568. 
Teucrium occidentale A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: 349. 1878. 
T. boreale Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 28: I7I. 1901, 
Perennial, villous or pubescent; stem erect, rather 
stout, usually much branched, 1°-3° high, the branches 
ascending. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
thin, acute or acuminate at the apex, sharply den- 
tate, mostly rounded at the base, usually slender- 
petioled, 1’-33’ long, 3’-13’ wide; spikes dense, be- 
coming 3-8’ long in fruit; bracts lanceolate-subu- 
late or the lower sometimes larger, villous and often 
glandular; calyx and axis of the spike villous- 
pubescent and often glandular, the 3 upper calyx- 
teeth acute or acutish; corolla 4”-6” long. 
In moist soil, Maine and Ontario to eastern Pennsyl- 
vania, British Columbia, Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico 
and California. July-Sept. 
4. Teucrium Scorodénia L. Wood Germander. 
Fig. 3569. 
Teucrium Scorodonia L. Sp. Pl. 564. 1753. 
Perennial, villous-pubescent, 2° high or less, the branches erect- 
ascending. Leaves mostly ovate, 1’-23’ long, obtuse or acute at 
the apex, cordate or subtruncate at the base, crenate, the petioles 
23-7" long; racemes narrow, rather loosely flowered, often 5’ 
long, the flowers secund, mostly in pairs, the pedicels shorter 
than the calyx, equalling or shorter than the ovate, acute or 
acuminate bracts; calyx veiny, the upper tooth broad; corolla 
light yellow, 3-4” long. 
A weed in cultivated fields, Ontario, and reported from Ohio. Ad- 
ventive from Europe. June-Sept. 
5. Teucrium laciniatum Torr. Cut-leaved 
Germander. Fig. 3570. 
Teucrium laciniatum Torr. Ann. Lyc. Ny. Ya 24 23%. 
1828. 
Melosmon laciniatum Small, Fl. SE. U. S. toz9. 
1903. 
Diffusely branched from a woody perennial 
root, 1° high or less, densely leafy, glabrous, or 
neatly so. Leaves 14’ long or less, pinnately 
parted into 3-7 stiff, linear, entire, toothed or 
lobed segments; flowers solitary in the upper 
axils, as long as the subtending leaves or shorter, 
short-peduncled; calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes 
narrowly lanceolate, nearly equal; corolla pale 
blue or lilac, about 9” long, its lower lobes much 
longer than the calyx. 
Plains, Kansas and Colorado to Texas and Ari- 
zona. .May—Aug. * 
