382 LABIATE. Scutellaria. 



the calyx : corolla puberulent ; lower lip nearly erect and surpassing the upper : nutlets 

 densely inurieulatc-seabrous. Spec. ii. 599; Engl. Bot. t. 593; Sclik. Handb. t. 167. Wet 

 soil, Atlantic States, from mountains of Carolina to Newfoundland, Mackenzie lliver, and 

 westward from mountains of Arizona to Brit. Columbia. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



2. Nutlets raised on a slender gynobase, each surrounded by a conspicuous 

 membranaceous wing in the manner of Perilomia, the faces nmricate. (Here 

 also a Japanese species, S. Guilielmi.) 



S. nervosa, Pursh. Glabrous: rootstocks or stolons filiform: stems slender, rather sim- 

 ple, 4-quetrous (10 to 20 inches high) : leaves membranaceous, coarsely few-toothed, rather 

 prominently quintuple-ribbed from near the base ; the lowest cordate and short -petioled ; 

 the others sessile or nearly so ; middle ones ovate ; floral ovate-lanceolate, gradually 

 smaller and more entire, much surpassing the axillary secund flowers : corolla bluish, 4 

 lines long, with lower lip exceeding the straightish merely concave upper one. Pursh, Fl. 

 ii. 412; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 370. S. teucrifoUa, Smith. S. yracilis, Nutt. Gen. ii. 

 37. Moist thickets, New York to Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri. 



37. SALAZARIA, Torr. (In honor of Don Jose Salasar y Larrequi, 

 the Mexican Commissioner of the U. S. and Mex. Boundary Survey.) Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 133, t. 39. Single species of a remarkable genus. 



S. Mexicana, Torr. 1. c. Shrubby, 2 or 3 feet high, with diffuse or sarmentose slender 

 soft-canescent branches : leaves remote, glabrate, small, oblong or broadly lanceolate, 

 short-petioled, mostly entire ; floral reduced to bracts of the short and loose terminal 

 racemes : flowers less than inch long : corolla purplish, or the spreading lower lip deep 

 purple : fructiferous vesicular calyx half inch or more in diameter. Bot. Calif, i. 004. 

 Ravines, S. E. California in the Mohave desert, S. Nevada and Utah, Arizona, Fremont, 

 Parry, Cooper, Painter. (Adjacent Mex.) 



38. BRUNELLA, To urn. SELF-HEAL, or HEAL-ALL. (Commonly 

 written Prunella, but said to come from the old German word Breiuie or Braune, 

 an affection of the throat, which the plant was thought to cure.) --Low peren- 

 nials ; with nearly simple steins, terminated by a short verticillastrate-spicate or 

 capitate inflorescence, with imbricated round-ovate and nervose bracts or floral 

 leaves of about the length of the calyx, each subtending 3 subsessile flowers : fl- 

 ail summer. 



B. vulgaris, L. Leaves ovate-oblong, entire or toothed, slender-petioled, commonly pubes- 

 cent : corolla not twice the length of the purplish calyx, violet, purplish, c., rarely white. 

 Fields and borders of copses, Newfoundland to Florida, and west to California and 

 northward; evidently indigenous in some of the cooler districts. (Eu., Asia, Mex.) 



39. BR.AZ6RIA, Engclm. & Gray. (Discovered on the Rio Brazos, 

 Texas.) --A genus of two annuals, of rather low stature: leaves oblong, mostly 

 sessile, denticulate ; lowest tapering into a petiole ; floral diminished to small 

 ovate or oblong-lanceolate bracts to the single flowers of the virgate racemes or 

 spikes : corolla rose-purple : fl. summer. PI. Lindh. i. 47 ; Gray, Chloris, 34, 

 t. 5 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 434. 



B. truncata, Engelm. & Gray, 1. c. Somewhat pubescent, at least the raceme and 

 calyx viscid-hairy: spike dense and strict, simple or sometimes branching: calyx much 

 reticulated, truncate, its broad lips of equal length, obscurely lobed, mucronately denticu- 

 late (3 or 4 Hues iu fruit): corolla three-fourths inch long; upper lip and middle lobe 

 of lower deeply emarginate, all the lobes denticulate; palate somewhat prominent; tube 

 pilose-annulate near the base : anthers somewhat hairy : nutlets puberulent. Chloris, 1. c. 

 t. 5. Pht/soxti't/m truncata, Benth. Lab. 305; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3494. Sandy soil, in 

 plains and prairies of E. Texas, Berlundier, Drumnwnd, Lindheimer, &c. 



