TEUCRIUM FRU'TICANS. 
SHRUBBY GERMANDER. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMN03PERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Spain. 
3 feet. 
June, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1640. 
No. 554. 
The generic name, Teucrium, is of ancient ori- 
gin, and whether it was derived from the name of 
a Trojan prince, or eastern country, is not certain. 
The Teucrium fruticans, planted either in the bor- 
ders, or trained to a wall, is sufficiently conspicuous 
to attract notice and to afford pleasure. The dense 
white down which clothes its stems and the inferior 
surface of its leaves, gives to it a distinguishing 
character amongst other plants, and produces an 
acceptable variety in the borders. 
In England it cannot be fully exposed through 
the winter, without injury ; although in the Botanic 
Garden of Trinity College, Dublin, we have seen it 
ten feet high, trained to a wall. Here, however, 
as at Edinburgh, notwithstanding latitude, many 
plants bear the open air, which will not do so in 
the midland counties of England. The sea, from 
its contiguity, equalizes the temperature. 
Cuttings of Teucrium fruticans should be struck 
in the summer, under glass. The plants may be 
kept in pots, and be protected in a cold frame dur- 
ing winter; and they will flower abundantly in the 
borders, in the following summer. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 336. 
