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pointed at the apex, sharply toothed, rounded at the base, i to 4 inches 



long, one-half to 1-3 inches wide with slender petioles shorter than the 



blades. Flowers purplish pink in dense, terminal, spikelike panicles. 



Calyx ten -nerved, unequally five-toothed, bracts, calyx and axis of the 



spike hairy and often glandular. Corolla one-third to one-half of an 



inch long, with a short tube, the limb irregularly five-lobed, the two short 



upper lobes oblong, the lower lobes broader and declined. Stamens four, 



projecting from between the two upper lobes of the corolla. 



In moist soil in woods and thickets. Maine to Ontario and British 



Columbia, south to eastern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico. 



Flowering from July to September. 



The American Germander or Wood Sage (Teucrium can a dense 

 Linnaeus) is very similar, but the calyx, bracts etc. are canescent without 

 being hairy or glandular. The Narrow-leaved Germander (Teucrium 

 lit tor ale Bicknell), common on or near the coast, has narrower, 

 sharply toothed leaves, often densely canescent. 



Blue Curls; Bastard Pennyroyal 



Trichostema dichotomum Linnaeus 



Plate 182b 



A small, annual, minutely viscid-pubescent plant, with rather stiff, 

 much-branched stems, 6 to 20 inches high, the branches spreading or 

 ascending. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rather blunt at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base into short petioles, 1 to 3 inches long, the upper leaves 

 smaller. Flowers one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, borne one 

 to three together on two-bracteolate stalks in a paniculate inflorescence. 

 Calyx oblique, very unequally five-lobed, the three upper lobes much 

 longer and more united than the two lower ones. Corolla blue, pinkish 

 or rarely nearly white, the tube shorter than the five-cleft limb, the lobes 

 or segments of the corolla more or less declined. Stamens four, blue or 

 violet, curved and projecting far out of the flower. 



In dry or sandy fields, Maine to New York, Ontario and Missouri, 

 south to Florida and Texas. Flowering from July to October. 



