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Show WATER GERMANDER. TEUCRIUM SCORDIUM. COMMON BASIL. CLINOPODIUM VULGARE. . Class XIV. Didynamia. Order I. Gymnospermia beyond the base twoEssent. Gen. Caan. No superior lip of the Corolla, parted. Spec. CHAR. Flowers paired, axLeaves oblong, sessile, dentate-serrate : illary, on peduncles: Stemdiffused. a DESCRIPTION. serrated, Tus plant rises to a foot in height. Leaves in pairs, whorls, in rs Flowe sessile. hairy, oblong, of a dusky green, at the base of the leaves, often two together. Order 1. Gymnospermia. Class X1V. Didynamia. pristles under x pilabiate: Involucre of many Essent. Gen. Coar. Caly the whorl. branching : Bracteas setaceous: Pedicels Spec. Cuan. Verticilli hispid: Leaves obscurely serrated. EEE Upper lip as if the sides. none; under lip long, of a purple colour, dentated on HISTORY. It is native of England, and grows in marshy situations, flowsmell ering in July and August. The leaves possess both the and taste of garlic. MEDICAL VIRTUES. s It is recommended by Galenas anantipestilential, who relate slain not equally this virtue was found out bythe bodies of the era queecunque Cadav corrupting where this plant abounded :—‘‘ aliis comminus multo rant, cecide a fortun forté supra scordium putruisse, ea presertim ex parte que herbamcontigerat.” Lib. de Antidot. The great Boerhaave says, that outwardly applied was used with great it stops gangrene ; and we are told that it Chenot de Pest, y. success in the plague which rages in Turke p. 132. DESCRIPTION. "Tue stem rises about a foot. e, The leaves are in pairs, ovat serrated. rather obtuse, obscurely axVerticilli terminal, and x. narrow, shorter than the caly illary. The involucres very nd rou ing hav ute, the throat hirs Flowers a reddish purple, at segments. HISTORY. ages and in thickets, on a calc Native of Britain, under hed reous soil; flowers in August. MEDICAL VIRTUE. gorates r plants of that class, invi It is aromatic, and, like othe espes, habit in leucophlegmatic the system, and produces good evil. ’s king the n sickness, and cially chlorosis, or the gree |