NAT. ORDER, 
Verticillatce. 
TEUCRIUM MARUM. MARUM GERMANDER. 
Class XIV. Didynamia. Order I. Gymnospermia. 
Gen. CJiar. Corolla, superior. Capsule, two-parted, divided from 
the stigma. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, ovate, acute, petiolate, tomentose. Florets, 
racemes in twos. 
The root of this plant is perennial, long, ligneous, and divided 
into many fibrous branches : the stalks are numerous, slender, 
shrubby, woolly, somewhat branched, and rise from one to two 
feet in height : the leaves are oblong, pointed, entire, and near the 
bottom obscurely lobed ; the upper pagina is of a pale green color ; 
the under, white and downy ; they are placed in pairs upon slender 
footstalks, which become gradually elongated towards the lower 
part of the stems ; the jlowers are produced in spikes, and all 
stand on the same side, in pairs, upon short peduncles ; the corolla 
consists of a short curved, cylindrical tube, which divides at the 
limb into two lips ; the upper lip is short, erect, and divided to 
the base, by which it seems lost in the under lip, which is long, of 
a pale purple color, and separated into six lobes ; of these the 
outside one is the largest: the calyx is tubular, whitish, woolly, 
and cut into five short, pointed segments ; the filaments are two 
long and two short, slender, white, and furnished with simple an- 
thers ; the germen is quadrified, and supports a slender style, with 
a bifid stigma ; the seeds are four, of a brown color, and lodged in 
the calyx, which serves the purpose of a capsule. 
This little shrub flowers from July until September. It is a 
Vol. iii.— 31 
