eetiats 299 meee’ 
Habitat. Waste places, hedgerows, &c. 
Quality. Tonic, stimulant, laxative. : 
Uses. Coughs ; uterine and hepatic affections. 
Scurernaria. Linneus. 
Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip truncate, external to the lower lip, which is 
truncate and entire. Gynophore long and curved. 
1. 8. galericulata Linneus.—(Common Scuticar.) Fig. 299. : 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, cordate, remotely crenate; flowers axillary, | 
opposite, racemose. 
_ Habitat. bales ditches. 
_ Quality and Uses. An old exploded remedy for hydrophobia ; also formerly used 
ang : : y for ophobia 0 fo f eecee? 
ane scr ond ee ttents ; has little or no useful effect sepoi the constitution, unless as 
_ Natural Order, Werbenes ; Verbenaceee (V. K., p. 663.) 
Prevailing Quality. Aromatic, subacrid. 
: Stacnyrarpneta. Vahl. pe 
a aims solitary. Fruit a dicoccous capsule. Flowers spike 
1. S. jamaicensis Vahl. : ‘a 
Nearly smooth ; leaves oval or roundish ovate, coarsely serrated ; SP 
very long ; bracts aristate. ie 
Habitat, West Indies, ae 
Quality. Reported to be ive and anthelminti 
: ‘ tie. 
dog Juice as a purgative for children ; fresh aves applied to ulcers ; when ¢F 
orm @ bad kind of tea, sometimes sold in Austria as Brazilian Tea. 
Fig. 298.—Marrubium vulgare; 299.—Scutellaria galericulata ; a, its calyx. 
