TEU'CRIUM HYRCA'NICUM. 
HYRCANIAN GERMANDER. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATE. 
Native of 
Heio^ht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Persia. 
18 inches. 
Aug-. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1763. 
No. 608. 
The word Teucrium is expressly mentioned by 
Pliny as derived from the name of Teucer, a Trojan 
prince, who lived about the time of Achilles. We 
will give Pliny’s account of the subject, according 
to Holland’s translation. ‘^Teucer gave the first 
name and credit to one special herb, called after 
him Teucrion. Sovereign it is for the swollen and 
hard spleen; the knowledge of which property came 
by this occasion, as it is credibly and constantly 
reported. It fortuned upon a time when the inwards 
of a beast, killed for sacrifice, were cast upon the 
ground where this herb grew, it took hold of the 
spleen or milt, and clave fast unto it, so as in the 
end it was seen to have consumed and wasted it 
clean” ! 
This is a rather stately and upright plant, which 
shows well in the garden, although its flowers, in- 
dividually, are small. It should be planted in a 
light soil and dry situation, or it will sometimes be 
destroyed in the spring. To meet such contin- 
gency a plant should be protected in the cold frame. 
It may be increased by seeds or division ; or by 
cuttings, taken when three or four inches long. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 368. 
