Scutellaria. LABIATE. 381 



spatulate-obovate, entire, thickish, nearly veinless, half inch long, tapering into a petiole : 

 corolla white, rather broad and with dilated throat, hardly exceeding the leaves; lips of 

 equal length. Proc. Am. Acad. ii. 100, & JBot. Calif, i. 004. N. W. Nevada, near Pyra- 

 mid Lake, Lemmon. 



S. tuberosa, Benth. Soft-pubescent or villous: steins slender, rather sparsely leafy, 

 1 to 4 inches high and erect, or sometimes reaching a foot in length and trailing : leaves 

 mostly ovate, either truncate or cuneate at base, thin, coarsely and obtusely few-toothed, or 

 rarely entire (a quarter to inch and a half long), nearly all petioled; floral about equalling 

 or longer than the violet or blue narrow corolla : nutlets strongly muricate. Lab. 441 ; 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 601. Hills, &c., nearly throughout California. 



==== = Flower larger, violet-blue: stems erect, equally leafy: leaves from oblong to linear, all 

 but the lower sessile and entire : monilifortn tubers more rare or obscure, except in the first species. 



S. resinosa, Torr. Barely a span high, branched from the base, minutely pubescent and 

 resinous-atomiferous, somewhat viscid : leaves uniform, oval and oblong, or uppermost 

 narrower, obtuse, mostly sessile (5 to 10 lines long), nervose-veined : pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx : corolla pubescent, an inch long, with slender tube and ampliate throat ; lower lip 

 glabrous inside : nutlets tuberculate. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 232 ; Benth. 1. c. Plains of 

 Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. 



S. angustif 61ia, Pursh. A span to a foot high, minutely puberulent or almost glabrous : 

 stems or branches often simple and slender : leaves from linear to narrowly oblong (0 to 12 

 lines long), all but the lower acute or contracted at base ; lower more petioled and some- 

 times few-toothed ; radical orbicular or cordate and small : pedicels as long as the calyx : 

 corolla three-fourths to nearly inch long, puberulent, with slender tube and moderately 

 ampliate throat ; lower lip villous inside: nutlets minutely granulate. Fl. ii. 412 ; Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. G03. Moist ground, British Columbia and Montana to California, even as 

 far south as San Bernardino Co. 



Var. canescens, Gray, 1. c. More branching, tomentulose-cancsccnt : corolla more 

 arrect by the curvature of the base of the tube. 5. siphocampyloides, Vatke in Bot. Zeit. 

 xxx. 717. Western part of California, in caiions, c. 



S. antirrllinoid.es, Benth. Resembles broader leaved forms of the preceding : steins 

 more brandling, diffuse or ascending: leaves oblong (G to 9 lines long), mostly obtuse at 

 base as well as apex, more petioled: corolla shorter and broader, 7 to 10 lines long; the 

 tube shorter and less slender. Bot. Reg. xviii. under 1493, & DC. 1. c. 428; Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 310. S. resinosa, Watson, Bot. King, 237. Moist shady ground, Oregon, 

 northern part of California, and mountains of Nevada. 



H- -H- Filiform rootstocks or subterranean stolons not tuberiferous : corolla 'half to two-thirds inch 

 long, 



= Dull yellow or whitish, with ampliate-inflated throat, villous within (at least the lower lip), and 

 short proper tube: all the upper leaves entire, obtuse. 



S. Calif ornica. Puberulent : stems 8 to 20 inches high, slender : leaves from lanceolate- 

 oblong to oval-ovate, mostly roundish at base, short-petioled ; the lower an inch or more 

 long, often somewhat serrate ; upper gradually reduced to half inch or less ; uppermost 

 shorter than the flowers : lips of the corolla about equal : nutlets obscurely rugose-granu- 

 late. S. (intirrli inoidt .-n, var. Culifurnica, Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 3!K>, & Bot. Calif. 

 1. c., mainly. Banks of streams, California, from Tehama Co. southward, and in the 

 Sierra Nevada. Narrow-leaved forms resemble the preceding ; broader-leaved forms are 

 more like the following species. 



S. Bolanderi, Gray. Pubescent : stem simple or branched from the base, a foot high, 

 equably and very leafy to the summit : leaves ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, closely sessile 

 by an obscurely cordate base, an inch or less long, veiny from the base : flowers very short- 

 pedicelled, seldom equalling the leaf : lower lip of the corolla rather longer. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 337, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Sierra Nevada, California, in Mariposa and Plumas Co., 

 Bolander, Lemmon. 



= = Corolla violet-blue, with slender tube and less ampliate throat, naked \vitliin. 



S. galericulata, L. Nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent, slender, 1 to 3 iVet high, 

 simple or paniculately branched above : leaves membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, broadest next the subsessile or very short-petioled subcordate basi- (2 inches or 

 less long), all but the upper and more reduced ones appressed-serrate : pedicels shorter than 



