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LABIATE. 



Trichostema. 



Annual. Stem 8-12 inhces or more in height, very obtusely 4-angled, often purplish, 

 paniculately much branched. Leaves about an inch long and 3-5 lines wide. Pedicels in 

 the axils of small bract-like leaves, 2-3 lines long, one-flowered, twisting about the time of 

 the opening of the flower, which thus becomes inverted, 5-nerved : three of the teeth of the 

 calyx united except towards the summit, acute but scarcely mucronate ; the other two much 

 shorter, ovate. Corolla bright blue, or sometimes pale. Stamens half an inch or more in 

 length, beautifully curved. Achenia large, conspicuously reticulated and pitted. Style equally 

 2-cleft at the summit. 



Sandy fields ; common along the Hudson and on Long Island, but somewhat rare in the 

 northern and western counties. July - September. The plant has a rather agreeable balsamic 

 scent. 



25. TEUCRIUM. Linn.; Benth. Lab. p. 660 



[ So named from Tcucer, a prince of Troy; because he is said to have first used the plant medicinally.] 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, almost equally 5-toothed, or somewhat 2-lipped and the upper 

 tooth broader. Corolla with the tube short ; the four upper lobes nearly equal, oblong and 

 declined, or very short and nearly erect ; the lowest lobe largest, oblong, declined. Stamens 

 exserted from a cleft between the two upper lobes of the corolla : cells of the anther con- 

 fluent. Achenia rugose. — Herbs or shrubby plants of various inflorescence and habit. 



1 . Teucrium Canadense, Linn. Woodsage. Germander. 



Hoary-pubescent, erect; leaves ovate -lanceolate, obtuse at the base, hoary underneath ; 

 flowers in a simple terminal spike , the whorls about 6 -flowered ; bracts subulate ; calyx 

 campanulate , the three upper teeth much broader. — Linn. sp. 2. p. 564 ; Michx. Jl. 2. p. 1 ; 

 Pursh, fl. 2. p. 405 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 69 ; Bigel. jl. Bost. p. 235 ; Torr. compend. p. 232 ; 

 Beck, hot. p. 274 ; Benth. Lab. p. 672 ; Darlingt. Jl. Cest. p. 362. T. Virginicum, Linn. 

 I. c; "Schk. hand. t. 160;" Pursh, I. c. ; Ell. I. c. ; Torr. I. c. ; Beck, I c. 



Perennial. Stem about two feet high, mostly simple, 4-angled. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 

 varying from nearly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, serrate, pale green above, 

 sou and canescent underneath ; the petioles 2-4 lines long. Spikes solitary, or sometimes 

 with two or more smaller ones at its base, 3-6 inches long ; the flowers often imperfectly 

 whorled, on short pedicels. Calyx downy, sometimes purplish ; the uppermost tooth rather 

 acute ; lateral ones obtuse ; the two lower acuminate. Corolla pale purple ; the upper lip 

 apparently wanting, owing to a deep cleft between the two lobes : middle lobe of the lower 

 lip remote from the others, and much larger, oblong and concave. Stamens ascending, 

 curved, shorter than the corolla. Style equally 2-cleft at the extremity. Achenes obovoid 

 and somewhat 3-sided, reticulated. 



Low and rather shady grounds ; frequent. July. 



GERMANDER. 



