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TEUCRIUM LATIFOLIUM. BROAB-LEAV'D<br />
SHRUBBY GERMANDER.<br />
*<br />
Oafs and Order.<br />
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPER^IA.<br />
Generic Chamber.<br />
Cor. labium fuperius (nullum) ultra bafin 2-partitum, divari-<br />
catum ubi {lamina.<br />
Specific Chamber and Synonyms.<br />
TEUCRIUM latifolimn foliis integerrimis rhombeis acutis<br />
vill<strong>of</strong>is fubtus toment<strong>of</strong>is. Linn. Syft. VegetM.<br />
ed. 1 4. Murr. p. 526. Ait. Kew. -v. z. p. 2 76.<br />
TEUCRIUM fruticans beeticum ampliore folio. Dill. Elth.<br />
379. t. 2 84. /. 367.<br />
The "Teucrium latifoRum as well as the fruticans, which<br />
is nearly related to it, is a native <strong>of</strong> Spain, and was cul<br />
tivated in this country in 1714, by the Duchefs <strong>of</strong> BEAUFORT,<br />
vid. Ait. Kew.<br />
It is a flirubby plant, growing to the height <strong>of</strong> feven or<br />
eight feet (it may be trained to a much greater height) now<br />
common in our green-houfes, and fometimes planted in the<br />
open border in warm fituations, where it will bear about the<br />
fame degree <strong>of</strong> cold as the myrtle; it flowers during m<strong>of</strong>t <strong>of</strong><br />
the rummer months, and is readily increafed by cuttings.
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