TEUCRIUM. 



the leaves. This herb has formerly been celtbrated for its 

 tleobftruent and tonic quahties, but is now out of medical 

 ufe, except perhaps in the recelTes of the country. 



"V . fcordioiJes oi Schreber, Willd. n. 35, feems to us, with- 

 out doubt, a variety of tile laft, as it is made in Prodr. Fl. 

 Grace. V. I. 393. 



T. Chammdrys. Wall Germander. Linn. Sp. PI. 790. 

 Willd. n. 36. " Fl. Brit. n. 3. Engl. Bot. t. 680. Woodv. 

 Suppl. t. 243. (Chamjedrys ; Rivin. Monop. Irr. t. lo. 

 f. 2. Tourn. Inft. t. 97 ; a much better figure. C. major 

 latifolia ; Ger. Era. 656.) — Leaves nearly ovate, ftalked, 

 deeply crenate. Flowers axillary, three together, ftalked. 

 Stem round, hairy — Found on dry rocks and old walls in 

 the more temperate or wai'm countries of Europe. It is 

 abundant on the old city wall, on the north fide of Norwich, 

 ES well as here and there in other parts of England, but not 

 univerfally. Dr. Sibthorp obferved the plant in dry ftony 

 places, throughout Greece and the ifles of the Archipelago, 

 where it ftill retains nearly the fame appellation of y^afjiai^^v;. 

 recorded in Diofcorides. It flowers in July and Auguft, 

 and has a perennial creeping root. Thejlem is bu{hy, rather 

 diffufe, and (lightly flirubby, a fpan high. Leaves of a full 

 fliining green, flightly hairyi deeply crenate and cut. Floivers 

 crimfon, numerous, more handfome than thofe of T. Scordium, 

 with which fpecies the prefent has been fuppofed nearly to 

 agree in virtues. It is equally bitter, but more agreeably, 

 though lefs powerfully, fccnted. 



T. luc'idum. Shining Germander. Linn. Sp. PI. 790. 

 Willd. n. 39. Ait. n. 25. Sm. Fl. Grsc. Sibth. t. 532, 

 unpubl. (Chamxdrys alpina frutefcens, foho fplendente ; 

 Tourn. Init. 205. Magnol. Hort. 52. t. 9.) — Leaves ovate, 

 ftalked, deeply crenate, fmooth and (hining. Flowers axillary, 

 three together, ftalked. Stem fquare, ereft, nearly fmooth. 

 — Native of alpine vallies in Savoy and Provence. Found 

 by Dr. Sibthorp on ParnafTus, and other Grecian mountains, 

 as well as in the ifland of Cyprus. The tall, ereft, fquare 

 JlemSf often quite fmooth ; numerous whorls of large crimfon 

 Jloivers ; and fliining leaves, of which the upper or floral 

 ones are more numeroufly quite entire ; all render this plant, 

 at firft fight, decidedly diff^erent from the laft, and yet they 

 are very nearly related, fo that an effential diff"erence is dif- 

 ficult to feize, and perhaps none that has yet been indicated 

 is invariably conftant. 



T. jiavum. Yellow Shrubby Germander. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 791. WiUd. n. 41. Ait. n. 26. Sm. Fl. Grxc. 

 Sibth. t. 533, unpubl. (Teucrium; Rivin. Monop. Irr. 

 t. 10. f. I. Chamaedrys frutefcens major, floribus ochro- 

 leucis ; Morif. feft. 11. t. 22. f. I.) — Leaves ovate, crenate, 

 downy. Whorls fix-flowered, compofing terminal clufters, 

 with ovate, concave, entire brafteas. Stem flirubby, downy. 

 — Native of rocks and old walls, in the fouth of Europe, 

 and north of Africa ; abundant in the Archipelago, and 

 on the walls of Rome. The Jlem is woody, branched, ereft, 

 about two feet high ; its branches leafy, bluntly quadran- 

 gular, clothed with very foft, velvet-like, curved pubefcence, 

 as is the whole of the herbage. Leaves ftalked, hardly an 

 inch long ; tapering and entire at the bafe. Floicers pale 

 yellow, corapofi.ng long, whorled, ereft chillers, with pale- 

 green IraSeas, about equal to the cahjx. The teeth of the 

 latter are nearly equal. Upper fegments of the corolla edged 

 with red. 



T. bicolor. Two-coloured Chili Germander. (T. hete- 

 rophyllum ; Cavan. Ic. v. 6. 56. t. 577.) — Leaves wedge- 

 ftiaped, obtufe ; undivided or cut. Flowers axillary, foli- 

 tary. Calyx nearly regular, with ten ftrong ribs. — Ga- 

 thered by Louis Nee, in the neighbourhood of Talcahuano, 

 in Chili, flowering in. November and December. We have 



a wild fpecimen from the late abbe Cavanilles, whofc 

 fpccific name we are obliged to change, there being already 

 a T. heterophyllum, Willd. n. 37. The Jlem is fhrubby, 

 almoft fix feet high, with fquare leafy branches, clothed, 

 like the calyx, Jlalis, and under fide of the foliage, with very 

 (hort denfe pubefcence. The leaves arc about an inch long, 

 nearly fmooth on the upper fide, various in breadth ; the 

 broadeft deeply and coarfcly cut ; the reft undivided and 

 entire ; the lower ones on lliort ftalks ; the upper feffile. 

 Floivers from the bofoms of the upper leaves, on ftiortifli, 

 round, finely downy ftalks. Calyx cut almoft half way 

 down into five, nearly equal, acute, ovato-lanceolate feg- 

 ments, each with a ftrong mid-rib ; its tube having five 

 intermediate ribs befides. Corolla externally hairy, white, 

 the middle of its lower lip of a violet red. 



T. montanwn. Dwarf Mountain Germander. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 791. Willd. n. 42. Ait. n. 27. Sm. Fl. Grac. 

 Sibth. t. 534, unpubliftied. (Ajuga folio integro ; Rivin. 

 Monop. Irr. t. 15. Polium feptimum ; Cluf. Hill. v. 1. 

 363. f. I, 2. P. lavandulae folio; Ger. Em. 655. f. 2, 3.) 

 /3. T. fupinum. Linn. Sp. PI. 791. Willd. n. 43. 

 Ait. n. 28. Jacq. Auftr. t. 417. (P. montanum oftavum ; 

 Cluf. Hift. V. 1. 363. P. montanum minimum ; Ger. 

 Em. 655.) 



Corymbs terminal. Leaves linear-lanceolate, fomewhat 

 revolute, almoft entire ; cottony beneath. Calyx reticu- 

 lated, ten-ribbed, flightly downy, with fpinous teeth 



Native of dry mountainous or alpine fituations, in Ger- 

 many, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Greece ; fometimcs, 

 though rarely, preferved in pots, under a frame, in our 

 more curious gardens. A dwarf huPciy JJirub, like Thyme, 

 with a ftrong woody root, and many diffufe, downy, leafy 

 Jlems. Leaves crowded, oppofite, ftalked, hardly an inch 

 long, very rarely notched, various in breadth ; green, con- 

 vex, and nearly fmooth, above ; veiny, very white and cot- 

 tony, beneath. Flowers in denfe, feffile, folitary corymbs. 

 Calyx tubular, pale, with equal, fpreading, tapering, pun- 

 gent teeth, from whofe intermediate finufes the veins fpread 

 ftar-wife. Corolla pale buff-coloured, the fegments of its 

 upper lip veined with red. 



Schreber has long ago united T. montanum and fupinum ; 

 nor was Linnasus ignorant of their near affinity ; though in 

 this inftance, as in every thing relative to alpine plants of 

 the fouth of Europe, which he had rarely examined alive, 

 he was difpofed to give up his own opinion, to that of 

 practical obfervers. Clufius having reprefented T. fupinum 

 fo different in fize and habit from montanum, might help to 

 miflead following botanifts ; but in truth they hardly 

 deferve to be diftinguiftied as varieties, fupinum being only 

 rather lefs luxuriant, witii narrov/er leaves, which indeed vary 

 on the very fame root. The fpecies before us has lent a 

 fpecific name to fome other plants, as Andromeda polifolia 

 of Linnsus, and Meni^iejia polifolia of Juffieu, which have 

 no fimilitude to the true ancient Polium hereafter defcribed, 

 but greatly refemble this. 



T. pyrenalcum. Pyrenean Germander. Linn. Sp. PI. 791. 



Willd. n. 4j. Ait. n. 29 Corymbs terminal. Leaves 



orbicular, crenate, hairy ; entire and flightly wedge -ftiaped 

 at the bafe. Calyx-teeth tapering, fringed. — Native of the 

 Pyrenees. Cultivated by Miller in 1731, at Chclfea garden, 

 where we have feen it a few years fince, yet there feems to 

 be no certain figure of this beautiful plant extant. Its habit 

 is fomewhat like the laft, but the leaves totally different, 

 being almoft orbicular, and from half an inch to an inch in 

 diameter, fiat, green, veiny and hairy. Flotuers in denfe 

 convex tufts, variegated with pale yellow and purple ; the 

 ribs and teeth of the calyx fringed witli long briftly hairs. 



Whether 



