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2 — 6-flowered whorls ; calyx scarcely pouched. — Wet places ; 

 rare. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3.* T. Chamcedrys (Wall Germander). — A similar but rather 

 larger, much-branched plant, woody below, with stalked, ovate, 

 cuneate, incised-crenate leaves, the upper ones smaller and nearly 

 entire; -flowers large, handsome rose-colour, in whorls of 5 — 6, 

 the upper ones in terminal, leafy, i-sided racemes; calyx hardly 

 pouched. — Old walls ; rare. Formerly employed as a tonic ; but 

 now scarcely used, except by rustic practitioners. — Fl. July — 

 September. Perennial. 



4. T. Scorodbnia (Wood Germander, 

 Wood Sage). — Stem erect, about 2 feet 

 high, with stalked, ovate, cordate, crenate, 

 wrinkled, sage-like leaves ; and lateral and 

 terminal, i-sided racemose clusters of small, 

 yellowish-white flowers ; calyx pouched at 

 the base.— A common woodland plant. 

 The whole plant is very bitter, and has been 

 used as a substitute for hops. — Fl. June — 

 September. Perennial. 



XjUGA RfiPTANS 



{Common Bugle). 



19. Ajuga (Bugle). — Herbs with leafy 

 bracts; calyx ovoid, 5-cleft; corolla with a 

 long tube, the upper lip very short, notched, 

 lower 3-cleft, the middle lobe broader and 

 notched ; nutlets united, wrinkled. — (Name 

 said to be corrupted from the Latin Abiga.) 

 1. A. reptans (Common Bugle). — Well 

 marked by its solitary erect stem, 6 — 9 in. 

 high, with long, creeping runners; lower 

 leaves stalked, obovate, obtuse, almost 

 glabrous ; upper leaves sessile, tinged with 

 blue ; flowers blue, or rarely white, in 6 — 10- 

 flowered whorls, the upper of which are crowded into a spike. — 

 Moist meadows and woods ; common. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



2. A. pyramiddlis (Pyramidal Bugle). — A hairy plant with 

 underground offsets and short runners not produced until autumn ; 

 leaves gradually diminishing upward ; flowers blue, all crowded 

 into a 4-sided pyramidal spike. — By mountain streams in the 

 north-west ; very rare. — Fl. May — July. Perennial. 



3. A. Chamcepitys (Ground Pine). — Very different in appear- 

 ance from any other British plant in the Order, a hairy, tufted 

 herbaceous plant, 3 — 6 inches high, with branched, spreading, 

 reddish-brown, viscid, turpentinous stem; hairy leaves divided 



