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TEUCRIUM CHAMCEDRYS. 
by Boerhaave* and Hermann ; and it is recommended as preferable^ 
in some instances, to tobacco, as it possesses no narcotic property : 
it forms a component in most cephalic powders. The dose of the 
herb, in powder, may be from twenty to forty grains, in any suitabla 
vehicle. 
Off. The Herb. 
Off. Pp. Pulvis Asari Compositus, E. D. 
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TEUCRIUM CHAM(EDRYS. 
Common or Wall Germander. 
For Class, Order, Nat. Ord. and Gen. Char. 
See preceding article. 
Spec. Char. Leaves cruciform-ovate, lacinated, crenate^ 
petiolate, hairy. Flowers three-fold. Stems hairy, pro- 
cumbent. 
This species of Teucrium is a native of Britain, flowering in June 
and July, and found growing on old walls and ruins. According to 
Sir James Smith, on the walls of Norwich, near Magdalen Gate, and 
Winchelsea Castle. 
The root is perennial, creeping, branched, and fibrous ; the stalk 
rises about a foot in height, branched, round, leafy, and hairy ; the 
leaves stand in pairs, on short footstalks, sub-ovate, irregularly 
notched, veined, and hairy ; the flowers are axiliary ; the calyx is 
rough, and cut into five pointed segments ; the corolla is of a purple 
colour, bilabiate, with the upper lip short, and cut in the middle, 
the lower separating in spreading lobes, of which the middle one is 
the largest and of a roundish form; the filaments are slender, white, 
and furnished with simple anthers ; the germen is four- parted ; style 
filiform, supporting a bifid stigma ; seeds four, enclosed in the calyx. 
Sensible Qualities, &c. The leaves and tops of germander 
* Hist. Plant. Hort. L. B. p. 262. 
