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SCUTELLARIA* alpina ; var. lupulina 



Alpine Scutellaria; hop-flowered variety. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany j p. 239.) 



SCUTELLARIA Linn. — Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus : labiis in- 

 tegris (nemp& sepalo supremo excluso squamseformi, binis lateralibus in 

 * labium superius, 2 infimis in inferius coalitis,) post anthesin clausis, demilm 



ad basin fissis, superiore dorso squamigero ad maturationem deciduo inferiore 

 '' persistente. Corolla tubo long& exserto, adscendente, bilabiata : labio supe- 



riore galeato, inferiore convexo, lobis lateralibus nunc liberis, saepi&s cum 

 labio superiore rarissim& cum inferiore coalitis. Stamina 4, sub galea 

 adscendentia, didynama. Antherce ciliatse, staminum inferiorum longiorum 





dimidiatse, superiorum breviorum cordatse, biloculares, loculis divaricatis, 

 dorso sub oppositis. Styli lobus superior ssepiils brevissimus, lobusque infe- 

 rior acuti apice minut& stigmatiferi. Ovarium gynophoro incurvo elevatum, 



obliquum. Achenia sicca, nuda, tuberculoso-rugosa. Herbse annuce f 



vel perennes, rarius suffruticeSj caule non nunquam subvolubili scandente. 

 Pedunculi in axillis foliorum floralium solitarii 9 uniflori. Benth. MSS. 



S. alpina ; caule procumbente, foliis subsessilibus v. breviter petiolatis ovatis 

 serrato-crenatis concoloribus : floralibus membranaceis junioribus imbri- 

 catis, spicis tetragonis. Benth. MSS. 



S. alpina. Linn. Suprd 9 fol. 1460. 



S. variegata. Spreng.Jil. tentamen. 



S. altaica. Fisch. cat. hort. Gorenhi, 39. Sw. brit.fi. gard. 1. t. 45. 



p. lupulina; floribus flavis, caule foliisque glabrioribus. Bentham. 



S. lupulina. Linn. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 1 72. 



S. verna. Besser prim. fi. gal. par. ii. 43. 



S. no. 52. Gmelinfi. sibir. 3. 229. t. 48. 



A hardy, prostrate, herbaceous, perennial plant, found in the 

 south-eastern parts of Europe, and in Asiatic Russia. Siberia and 

 F Tartary are named as its countries by Willd enow ; Besser obtained 



it from the neighbourhood of Tyra, in Galicia; and Gmelin found it 

 in the mountains of the country watered by the river Jaik. 



See fol. 14G0. 





