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ovatis obtusis, superioribus ovato-lanceolatis oblongisve, floralibus 

 suinmis minutis calyce brevioribus ; verticillastris sessilibus plurifloris 

 plerisque in spicam cylindricam nudam (1 - 2-pollicarem) congestis ; 

 calyce viridulo ovato-cam{ianulato, dentibus triangulari-subulatis tubo 

 dimidio brevioribus ; corolla (albida, vix lin. 2 longa) staminibusque 

 parum exsertis. — S. W. Texas near the borders of New Mexico (sta- 

 tion not recorded, Wright, without number). A close congener of 

 C. Mexicana Benth., to which belongs (as a var. cana) C cana Hook. ; 

 and G. pallida var. Torr. Mex. Bound, is a form with smaller and 

 shorter corollas. 



Scutellaria L. Although it may be inexpedient to make of this 

 genus a distinct tribe, as proposed by Visiani and adopted by Reichen- 

 bach, yet, now strengthened by the genus Salizaria Torr. (illustrated 

 in the Botany of the Mexican Boundary), with similar embryo, &c, I 

 should arrange for the two a subtribe (Scutellarinece) of the Stachy- 

 dece, — to which Perilomia (figured with a straight embryo) does not 

 belong. The winged nutlets of Perilomia, however, are curiously 

 imitated in one or two species of Scutellaria, only obscurely so in 

 S. parvida, as has been noted by Dr. Torrey in the work above men- 

 tioned, but strikingly in S. nervosa Pursh, and in a Japanese species 

 not otherwise very similar, viz. S. hederacea of Kunth and Bouche. 



Dr. Torrey's reference of S. Drummondii to his & resinosa is not 

 borne out. The gradual transition alluded to is through a species quite 

 distinct from either, and having neither the annual root of the former 

 nor the filiform subterranean stolons bearing moniliform or concate- 

 nated tubers which the latter exhibits along with its near allies, S. tuber- 

 osa, angustifolia, antirrkinoides, and parvida. The nutlets of S. 

 resinosa, and especially those of S. Drummondii^ are muricate, those 

 of the species now distinguished are only minutely granulate and 

 very much smaller. Its diagnosis is as follows : — 



Scutellaria Wrightii. Nee stolonosa nee tuberosa, e radice 

 perenni lignosa multicaulis (semi - subpedalis) ; pube minuta ; foliis 

 ovatis et spathulato-oblongis integerrimis subsessilibus ; corolla villoso- 

 pubescente (violacea, lin. 6-7 longa) sursum valde ampliata, labiis 

 requilongis ; nuculis minoribus minute granulatis. — E. Texas, Wright 

 (no. 477, 478, 1539), Lindheimer. S. W. Arkansas, Gordon. 



* The original character of S. Drummondii assigns to it crenate leaves, of which 

 there is, however, rarely a trace. Probably S. cardiophylla was confounded 

 with it. 



