TEU'CRIUM CA'NUM. 
HOARY GERMANDER. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. CYMNOSPEIIMIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIAT*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Armenia. 
2 feet. 
September. 
Perennial. 
in 1836. 
No. 83*2. 
The origin of the word Teucrium is enveloped 
in doubt; it is, however, reasonably supposed to 
have been adopted after Teucria, the ancient name 
of a country in Asia. The Latin canum, signifying 
hoary or white, was adopted by Fischer and Meyer, 
in their Seed Catalogue of the Petersburgh garden, 
in reference to the foliage or herb generally. It is 
not, however, so conspicuously applicable to this 
species of Teucrium as some others. 
This plant was raised from Armenian seeds, in 
1836, and its appearance amongst others of differ- 
ently tinted foliage is advantageous; just as blocks 
of gypsum relieve the dull appearance of basalt 
and other dark-coloured stones, in artificial rock- 
work. Its flowers too, although not large, are of 
brilliant and pleasing tint 
It is, probably, quite hardy ; but its scarcity has 
prevented its hardihood being sufficiently tested, 
therefore it has hitherto received frame protection 
during winter, and been turned into the borders 
during summer, where it flowers much finer than if 
kept in pots. Its roots seldom admit of division, 
for increase, but it may be propagated from cuttings. 
Don’s Svst, Bot. 4, 867 
