TEUCRIUM. 



hiives are an inch long, revohite, entire. Floiuer-Jtalks half 

 the length of the leaves. Segments of the calyx elongated, 

 lanceolate, revohite, fingle-ribbed, bluntly pointed, not 

 awned. Corolla purpllfh. Seeds with a net-work of wrinkles 

 over their furface. 



T. Pfcjdo-chamtsp'ilys. Raceniofe Slender-leaved Cornian- 

 der. Linn. Sp. PI. 787. Willd. n. R ; excluding the fy- 

 nonym of Cliifius. (Chamxpitys alia; Camer. Epit. 680. 

 Chamaepityos fpurix alterius altera icon ; Dod. Pempt. 47.) 

 — Leaves deeply once or twice three-cleft, linear, acute, re- 

 volute, hairy. Clufter terminal, fimple. Brafteas three- 

 cleft. Calyx lioary, awned. — Native of Spain, Barbary, 

 and the fouth of France. The Jlem is fhrubby, divided 

 from the bottom into many afcending, leafy, fquare, moftly 

 hairy branches. Leaves in very narrow, fomewhat awned, 

 fegments, more or lefs hairy. Flowrrs much like thofe of 

 T. oneniale, but forming a fimple terminal clvjler at the top 

 of each branch, with deeply three -cleft linear braHeas, ufually 

 as long as the Jlo'wer-Jlalks. Lip of the corolla externally 

 hairy. The Pfeudochamo'filys of CM. HH\. v. 2. iS^. Lob. 

 Ic. 385. f. I. Chamsepitys fpuria altera; Ger. Em. 526; 

 the left-hand figure in Dod. Pempt. 47 ; all from the fame 

 wooden block ; -appears to us a different fpecies from the 

 above-defcribed, with which ve are unacquainted. There can 

 be no doubt that the T. maur'itauum, Linn. Sp. PI. 787, en- 

 tirely adopted from Shaw's rude figure, n. 575 of his Phyt. 

 Afric. Specimen, is exaftly the fame with the real Pfeudo- 

 chamxp'itys of Linnieus, which we have from Spain and Bar- 

 bary, and which the cut of Camerarius, as well as the right- 

 hand one of DodoiiiEUS, clearly reprefents. 



All the foregoing fpecies, with a fe^^■ more wliich may be 

 found in Linn^us and Willdenow, apparently conftitute a 

 feftion of the genus before us, w-hofe deeply-dividedyb/ia^ 

 gives them a peculiar and Itriking charafter. Their injlorefcence 

 neverthelcfs differs confiderably, and on a more careful ex- 

 amination it will be found, that the racemofe blue-flowered 

 ones are moft naturally akin to the T. fruUcans, notwith- 

 ftanding its undivided entire leaves ; wliile the others are 

 more related to fome cut-leaved red-flowered fpecies, with 

 which we fliall meet hereafter ; infomuch that no natural 

 fiibdivifion of this genus could be founded on the above 

 charafter. 



T. frutkaiis. Blue Tree Germander. Lii.n. Sp. PI. 787. 

 Willd. n. 9. Ait. n. 6. Sm. Fl. Grcec. Sibth. t. 527, un- 

 publifhed. (T. latifolium; Linn. Sp. PI. 788. Curt. Mag. 

 t. 245. T. fruticans bocticum ; Cluf. Hilt. v. I. 348. Dill. 

 Elth. 379. t. 284. T. boeticum ; Ger. Em. 659.) — Leaves 

 ovato-ianceolate, entire ; fnow-white and cottony beneath. 

 Flowers axillai-y, folitary. Segments of tlie calyx ovate, 



cottony at the back Native of the foutli of Europe and 



north of Africa. A hardy and common greenhoufe plant 

 ill England, fometimes bearing our milder winters in the 

 open air, efpecially near the fea. The Jlem is fhrubby, 

 'ouihy, three or four feet high, with ftraight, divaricated 

 branches, clothed, like the backs of the leaves and calyx, as 

 well as all the_y?<7//'j, with peculiarly white, foft, denfe down. 

 The leaves vary in fize and breadth, as may be feen in the 

 plate of Dillenius, whofe fig. 368. milled Linnseus to make 

 a fpecies, by the name of latifoliam, v/hich is but a trifling 

 variety. Tlie upper furface of the leaves, and infide of 

 the calyx, are dark-green, ufually quite fmooth. Flowers 

 large and handfome, of a fine blue, coming out at all times 

 of the year : the middle fegment of their lower lip fome- 

 times deeply cloven. 



T. brev'tfolium. Short Hyffop-leaved Germander. Schreb. 

 Vertic.Unilab. 27. Willd. n. 10. Sm. Fl. Graec. Sibth. t. 528, 

 unpubhflied. ( Rofmarinum floechadis facie ; Alpin. Exot. 



103. t. 102. Polio retto di Candia ; Ton. Bald. 156.) — 

 Leaves lanceolate, revohite, entire, obtufe, honry. Flowers 

 folitary. Calyx without awns. — Native of rocks in Crete, 

 near the tca-fliore. The_/??m is fhrubby, with copious Spread- 

 ing, fquare, leafy branches. Leaves about an inch long, of 

 a hoary green on both fides, veiny. Flowers on flender, 

 folitarj-, fimple ftalks, from the bofoms of the upper leaves. 

 Corolla blufh-colonred, with purple veins. Segments of the 

 calyx revolute and blunt. Schreber and Willdenow cite, 

 under this fpecies, T. frutcfccns, ftoechadis arabicje folio 

 et facie ; Tourn. Cor. 14. Rivin. Monop. t. 20 ; which is 

 correft as to Tournefort, but no fuch thing occurs in Ri- 

 vinus. If we had not confulted, in fir Jofcph Banks's library, 

 the moft perfefl copy of his work known to cxill, we fhould 

 not fpeak fo decidedly on this head. 



T. creticum. Rofemary -leaved Germander. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 788. Willd. n. 1 1. Sm. Fl. Gnec. Sibth. t. 529, un- 

 publifhed. (T. hyffopifolium ; Schreb. Vertic. Unilab. 28.) 

 — Leaves linear-lanceolate, revolute, entire, obtufe ; white 

 and cottony beneath. Flowers often two or three together. 



Calyx cottony, fpinous Native of Crete, Cyprus, and 



Egypt. A taller, hiTger Jhrub than tlw laft, fome of whofe 

 fynonyms were confounded with it by Linnasus. Its habit 

 and foliage much reiemble Rofemary. Thejlowers are light 

 purple, or pink, and form long leafy chijlers, at the ends of 

 the branches, being cither folitary, or two or three together, 

 on fliort downy Jlalis, from the bofonis of the upper leaves. 

 The ca/yx is cottony without ; green within ; and has fhort 

 fpinous points. 



T. Marimi. Marum Germander, or Cat-thyme. Linn. 

 Sp.Pl. 788. Willd. n. 12. Ait. n. 7. (Pfeudo-Marlim; 

 Rivin. Monop. Irr. t. 13, not t. 40, which is Thymus Maf- 

 tichina. Marum Cortuii ; Bauh. Hift. v. 3. 242.) — Leaves 

 ovate, acute, entire, ftalked, cottony beneath. Flowers 

 racemofe, in pairs, turned one way. Calyx woolly. — Na- 

 tive of Spain, and the ifles of Hyeres. Frequent in green- 

 houfes, where it is very hardy, being cultivated for the 

 fake of its pecuharly pungent fcent, which powerfully in- 

 duces fneezing, and which renders it not lefs grateful to cats 

 than Valerian. The Jlem is bufliy, of humble growth, with 

 round hoary branches. Leaves a quarter of an inch long, 

 of a hoary green on the upper fide. Flowers crimfon. 



T.quadratulum. Little Square -leaved Germander. Schreb. 

 Vertic. Unilab. 36. Willd. n. 13. Sm. Fl. Grxc. Sibth. 

 t. 530, unpublifhed. (T. ramofifllmum ; Desfont. Atlant. 

 V. 2. 4. t. I 18.) — Leaves obovate -rhomboid, deeply tooth- 

 ed ; cottony beneath. Flowers axillary, folitary, deflexed. 

 Calyx woolly. — Native of fiffures of rocks, in Spahi, Bar- 

 bary, and Crete. A fmall, decumbent, brandling Jljrub, 

 whofe leaves are not half an inch long ; green above ; white 

 beneath. Flowers pink, their calyx bent down, fo as to 

 make a right angle with ksjoojlali, and then recurved. Seg- 

 ments of the upper lip of the corolla advanced towards thofe 

 of the lower in a remarkable degree. Style rcflexed. 



T. Laxmanni, Laxmann's Germander. Linn. Syft. 

 Veg. ed. 13. 439. Willd. n. 16. Ait. n. 10. Marfch. 

 von Biebertt. Taur. v. 2. 35. " Waldil. and Kitaib. 

 Hung. v. I. 71. t. 69." — Leaves elliptic-oblong, villous, 

 ribbed, nearly entire. Flowers axillary, folitary, oppofite, 

 turned one way. — Native of Siberia, Hungary, &c. We 

 notice this fpecies here merely to exprefs our concurrence 

 with the opinion of the able author of the Flora Taurico- 

 Caucafica above cited, that it certainly belongs to Ajuga, as 

 well as the 7'. falleijolium, Linn. Mant. 80, already referred 

 thither by Schreber and Willdenow. The two fpecies are 

 very nearly akin, and anfwer in charader and habit entirely 

 to yljuga, and not to Teucrium. 



T. ylrduiiii. 



