Teucrium Scorodonia. Sage-leavedGermander, 
or Wood Sage. 
TEUCRIUM Lin. Gen. PL Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Corolla labium fuperius (nullum) ultra bafin bipartitum, divaricatum ubi 
flamina. 
^ • Ra “ s y n : Gen _: >4* Suffrutices et Herb.e verticillat/e. 
TEUCRIUM Scorodonia foliis cordatis ferratis petiolatis, racemis lateralibus fecundis, caule erecto. Lln. 
T fyJl.Vegetab» p. 440. Sp.P 1 . 789. 
foliis cordatis produ&is, Epicis longiffimis nudis heteromallis. Haller. Miff. n. 2S7. 
TEUCRIUM Scorodonia. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. y 21. 
SCORDIUM alterum five falvia agreftis Bank. Pin. 24-7. 
SCORODONIA live falvia agreftis. Ger. em. 662. 
SCORODONIA Scordium alterum quibufdam ct falvia agreftis. Park; in. Raii Syn. 245. Undfon, 
FI. Angi. p. 248. Light joot FI. Scot. p. 303. FI. Man. t. 485. 
^^f'; ennis ’ }'f no{ \ ^ ubre P ens ; | ROOT perennial, woody, and fomewhat creeping. 
CAULES plures, felquipedales, bipedales et ultra, fub- | STALKS leveral, a loot and a half, two feet high, and 
eretti, tetragoni, duri, purpurei, hirfuti. | more, nearly upright, four-cornered, hard, 
t t , , I purple, andtliairv. 
FOLIA oppofita, petiolata, cordato-oblouga, plerumque f LEAVES oppofite, ftandiug on foot-ftalks, of an oblong 
obtula, liepe vero acutiufcula, falvias inflar | heart-fliape, generally obtufe, but often a little 
venola, utrinque hirfutula, obtufe et inaiqua- ^ pointed, -veiny like lage, a little ha'iry on each 
DBTim , 1 ) t ' r |! e '. r,K ' I ol) tufdyand unequally ferreted. 
PETIOLI hirluti. I LEAF-STALKS liairy. 
FLORES ftraminei, racemofi, fecundi, racemis op - 1 FLOWERS ftraw-coloured, growing all one wan, on 
politis, longis, nudis, terminali duplo fere| long, oppolite, baked racemi, the terminal 
longiore. | one Q f w hich i s a lmoft twice as long as the 
I reft. 
BRACTEA ovato-acuminata, fingulo flori fubjefta. f FLORAL-LEAF ovate, pointed, and placed under each 
I flower. 
CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, tubulofum,| CALYX: a Peri anthium of one leaf; tubular on the 
inferne bafi gibbofum, labio fuperiore erefto, | under fide gibbous at the bale, the upper lip 
integro, aut qbfolete trilobo ; inferiore quadri- 1 upright, entire or faintly three-lobed ; the 
dentato, dentibus fubasqualibus, jig. r. | lower lip furnifhed with four teeth, which are 
I nearly equal, Jig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, ringens ; Tubus cylindraceus, | COROLLA monopetalous and ringent ; Tube cylindrical 
brevis; Labium fuperius ultra bafin profunde | and flwr : vmnrr t.ib-Ap* nl«- 
bipartitum, diftantibus ad latera laciniis ; La - % 
ali-? 
and lhort ; upper Lip deeply divided beyond 
.- . - t the bafe, fegments flandi ng wide; lower Lib 
bium mfenus patens, trifidum, laciniis laterali- f fpreading, trifid, lateral legments the fame 
bus figura labii fuperioris, media maxima, fub- | ftiape as the fegments of the upper lip, the 
rotunda,^?. 2 - | middle one very large and roundilh, fig. ‘2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, quorum duo Ion - 1 STAMINA : four Filaments, two of which are longer 
giora, purpurea, pilola, primo eredta, conni - 1 than the reft, purple arid hairy, at firft upright 
ventia, poftea reflexa, et disjunda. Anthers | and doling together, afterwards turned backj 
flava?, Jig. 3. _ if and feparated. Anther.® yellow, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: German quadripartitum. Stylus fili- 1 PISTILLUM : Germen quadripartite. Style fili- 
formis. Stigmata duo, tenuia, Jig. 4. y form. Stigmata two, (lender, jig. 4. 
SEMINA quatuor, fubrotunda, nigricantia, nitida, in | SEEDS four, nearly round, blackilh, fhiniug, in the 
fundo calycis, pilis tranfverfis rigidis fere tedla, | bottom of the calyx, almoft covered with crols 
ibique detenta, ad debitam maturitatem, fig. 5. f rigid hairs, and kept there till they have qc- 
r quired a proper degree of ripenefs, Jig. 5. 
The Wood- lage, or more properly fage-leaved Germander, delights to grow in woody and hilly fixations, 
among bufhes, and under hedges, where the (oil is dry and ftony; and in fuch places it is ’not only common with 
us, but frequent in raoft parts of Great Britain. 
It flowers in July, Auguft, and September. 
Its leaves much refembles thole of Sage, from which circumfiance, and not from any botanical or medical 
affinity, it receives its name. 
_ As a medicinal plant, it has never been highly celebrated. Lewis omits it in his Materia Medica, but retains it in 
his Dilpeniatory : in linell, tafte, and medical virtues, he lays, it comes nearer to Scordium than Sa°e. Rutty 
relates a cale of Vertigo, brought on by the odour which arole from frequently handling the herb in the diftillation 
of it. He aferibes to it the fmell of the Hop, in lieu of which, lie fays, it may be lubftituted in making beer ; and that, 
when boiled in the wort, the beer fooner becomes clear than when hops are made tile of. Its virtues,, in this refpedt* 
are highly extolled by the Rev. P. Laure Nay of Bury *. We have only to with, that experiment may juftifv the 
encomiums of our learned and benevolent friend. 
“ Seeing fo much fine'ground under coftlyhops, which, it muft be owned, had very large and verdant leaves, I 
“ could not but repine at the expence of lbil, poles, dung, and labour, bellowed on" this plant, efpecially when 
“ there is great realbn to fuppofe, that the Teucrium Scorodonia wouid better anfwer the purpofe. Of this plant 1 
“ can lb far lay, that in lmell and tafte it refembles Hops. The name by which it goes in fome authors is Ambrojiu , 
“ a name announcing fomething immortal and divine; and to this day, nubnife is the appellation by which it goes 
“ among the common people in the ifland of Jerfev. Here, when Cv’d.r, the common beverage, has failed, 
“ have known the people malt each his barley at home, and, inftead ot Hups ule to very good purpofe, the 
“ Ambroife of their hedges. 
“ It is my ardent with, I own, to fee juft ice done to the neglected merits of tins ambrofial plant •, but fhould 
“ indolence, prejudice, or private intereft, obrtrudt the introduction of it into ufe, let me at leaft intvest brewers to 
“ honour it with their notice, in preference to any unpalatable and umvholelbme lubftitute they may have occufion 
“ to ufe in lieu of Hops.” 
‘ * Vide you; through Flanders, &c. publillied in the fourth urn be r of Mr. Yqcnu’o Annals of Agriculture- 
