2~>2 MINT FAMILY. 



29. BRUNELLA, SELF-HEAL or HEAL-ALL. (Latinized from the 



old iJiYmaii ii. tine.) Fl. all summer, y. 



B. vulgaris. Low fields ami copse-, low, spreading, with ovate or oblong 

 pctiolcd leaves, anil .'! tiow<r-, under each of the liruad and round purpli>h hraet> 

 of the he. id ; corolla bluish-purple or rarely white. 



30. SCUTELLARIA, SKULLCAP. (Name from Latin scutellum, a. 

 dish.) Fl. in summer, in species ours blue or violet. 2/ 



1. Floiri rs in rOGt Hint or Xjiilciit tn'/niiKitiii'l tin .sV. ;;/ anil lirinn'lii s. 



S. versicolor. River-banks, from Pcnn. W. & S. : stem stout, 1 -.3 high 

 soft-pulicM-cnt, a> are the heart-shaped very veiny and rugose eremite and blunt- 

 ish lonu-petiolcd leaves ; -pike-iikc racemes clammy-pubescent; corolla almost 

 1' Ion;:, the lower lip purple spotted. 



S. canescens. From IVnn. S. & W. : stems branching, 2 - 4 high ; 

 leaves petioled, ovate or lance-ovate, or some of them heart-shaped at base, the 

 lower surface as also the racemes and Mowers whitish with very tine soft down, 

 otherwi>e smoothisli ; corolla 1' long. 



S. pilbsa. Pubescent with spreading hairs; stem nearly simple, 1-.'! 

 high, bearing rather distant pairs of roundish or oblong-ovate veiny leaves, the 

 lower -ometimes heart-shaped, upper on short-margined petioles; merino 

 short, the bracts spatulate ; corolla 3' long. 



S. integrifdlia. Along thickets: minutely hoary, l-2high; leaves 

 lance-oblong or linear, obtu>e, nearly entire, very short-petioled ; raceme short; 

 corolla 1' long, much enlarged upwards. 



'2. Flowers short-peduncled in the axils of some of the sessile leaves. 



S. nervosa. 3Ioist ground from New York S. W. : smooth, l-2 hiuh, 

 slender; leaves roundMi or ovate, sparingly toothed, 1' long, those subtending 

 the flowers ovate-lanceolate and entire, the nerve-like main veins prominent 

 beneath ; flowers 4' long. 



S. parvula. Dry banks and shores, commoner W. & S. : low and spread- 

 ing, :i' - (]' high ; with round-ovate or lance-ovate and slightly heart-shaped 

 lea\es .',' or more Ionic, and (lowers \' long. 



S. galericulata. Wet ground N. : smoothish ; the slender simple stems 

 l-2 high ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sometimes with a heart-shaped base, acute, 

 serrate ; (lowers :j' long, with arched upper lip. 



3. Flowers in axillary or some terminal oin-sii/nl racemes. 



S. lateriflbra. Wet shady places : smooth, branching, 1 - 2 high, with 

 lancc-o\ate or oblong acute coarsely serrate leaves on slender petioles ; racemes 

 rather leat'y-bracted ; flowers $' long. 



31. MARRUBIUM, IIOUKIIOUXD. (Late Latin name, from Hebrew 

 word for uitter. ) Fl. late summer. ^ 



M. vulgare, COMMON II., from Europe, in gardens and waste places 

 branching, .spreading, hoary-downv, with round-ovate eremite-rugose leaves .in 

 petioles, and small white corolla. 



BLACK HOKKIKHM), P. M.I.OT.V Ni<;n.\, of F.urope, and naturalized in a 

 tew places V... i> not hoary, and has purplish tlowers with a spreading 5-toothcd 

 border to the calyx. 



32. GALEOPSIS, IIKMl'-XKTTLE. (Name in Greek means like a 

 weasel; the likeness not at all obvious.) Fl. summer. 



G. Tetrahit, COMMON 11. Damp wa>te and cult grounds, nat. from En. 

 a common weed, rattier bristly-hairy, with >tem Mvollcn below each joint, leaves 



mate and eoar.-elv scrrat , and corolla purpli>h or variegated. 



33. LAMIUM, DEAD-NETTLE. (Xame from Greek word for throat. | 



Low spreading herbs from Did World 11 s-jiring and summer. 



