LABIATE. 



673 



2. Water Germander. Teucrium Scordium, Linn. (Fig. 809.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 828.) 



A low, branching perennial, procum- 

 bent and rooting at the base, or emit- 

 ting creeping scions, and usually co- 

 vered with, short, soft hairs. Leaves 

 oblong. | to 1 inch long, coarsely toothed, 

 usually narrowed at the base, but larger 

 and cordate in luxuriant specimens. 

 Flowers of a pale purplish-red, all axil- 

 lary, turned to one side, in whorls of 6 

 or fewer, the pedicels very slender. 

 Calyx small, with 5 nearly equal teeth. 



In wet, marshy places, generally dis- 

 persed over Europe and central and 

 Russian Asia, except the extreme north. 

 Rare in Britain, having been only found 

 in a few localities in Ireland, and in Fig. 809. 



Cambridgeshire, Devonshire, and per- 

 haps one or two other English counties. FL summer. 



3. Wall Germander. Teucrium Chamoedrys, Linn. 



(Fig. 810.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 680.) 



Stock perennial, almost woody ; the 

 stems rarely branched, ascending, hairy, 

 6 to 8 inches high. Leaves ovate, deeply 

 toothed, wedge-shaped at the base, green, 

 and more or less hairy on both sides. 

 Flowers reddish-purple, in whorls of 2 

 to 6, forming a short, rather loose, ter- 

 minal, one-sided raceme. Calyx loosely 

 tubular, with 5 almost equal, pointed 

 teeth. 



On stony banks and old walls, over 

 the greater part of central and southern 

 Europe and western Asia, but not ex- 

 tending into Scandinavia. In Britain, 

 it has been found only in a few locali- 

 ties, mostly on old walls or ruins, and 

 may in many cases have originally es- 

 caped from gardens, although now well 

 established. FL summer. Fi S- 81(X 



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