Usually in sandy or rocky soils on the edge of woods and in grassy areas in 

 open woods, on banks, in seepage areas and old fields in e. fourth of Tex., w. to 

 Kaufman, Freestone and Madison cos., Apr.-Oct.; also Ark. and possibly w. La. 



4. Scutellaria lateriflora L. Mad-dog skullcap. Fig. 661. 



Perennial with filiform rhizomes and stolons; stem to 1 m. high, simple or 

 freely branched, smooth or minutely pilose on the angles with incurved-ascending 

 hairs; leaves with slender pilose petioles to 3 cm. long, ovate to deltoid-ovate, 

 acuminate, coarsely serrate or serrate-dentate, rounded to subcordate at base, thin, 

 glabrous or at most minutely pilose on veins beneath and on margin, to 12 cm. 

 long and 6 cm. broad; racemes 1-sided, axillary and terminal (occasionally reduced 

 to 1 flower), usually with 2 to 44 flowers in the axils of progressively smaller 

 leafy bracts, internodes of lateral racemes mostly 2-7 (rarely -10) mm. long; 

 calyx 2-2.7 (becoming in fruit 3-4) mm. long, puberulent; corolla slender, blue- 

 violet, 5-9 mm. long, pilose; upper stamens inserted about middle of tube; cocci 

 pale, 1.4-1.7 mm. high, obtusely pebbled. 



In alluvial thickets, meadows, marshes, swampy woods and on seepage slopes, 

 edge of water in lake, along streams and sloughs, in n.e. Tex. and n. Panhandle, 

 Okla. (Adair and Mayes cos.) and Ariz. (Yavapai and Coconino cos.), July- 

 Sept.; from Ga. to s. Calif., n. to Nfld., Que., Ont., Man., Sask., Alta. and B. C. 



3. Hyptis Jacq. 



About 400 species, mostly in tropical America. 

 1. Hyptis alata (Raf.) Shinners. Cluster bushmint, desert-lavender. Fig. 662. 



Herbaceous perennial from a woody rootstock; stem stout and elongate, to about 

 2 m. high, finely pubescent, simple or rarely branched; leaves ovate to rhombic- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, to about 15 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, coarsely 

 and irregularly serrate, cuneately narrowed into a petiolar base; flowers in dense 

 axillary glomerules about 2 cm. thick that are supported by peduncles to 5 cm. 

 long; calyx 6-8 mm long, the tube strongly cross-ribbed at maturity, the lobes 

 subulate-lanceolate and short-hairy; corolla declined, 2-lipped, white with lavender 

 dots, 8-10 mm. long, the upper lip with 4 entire lobes, the lower lip saccate, 

 abruptly deflexed at the contracted and callous base; stamens 4, declined or resting 

 on the lower lip, didynamous; disk entire or with a gland on the anterior side; 

 cocci oval, nearly 1.5 mm. long. Hyptis radiata Willd. 



In low pinelands, seepage areas, coastal meadows, swamps and marshes in s.e. 

 Tex., May-Nov.; from Fla. to Tex., n. to N.C. 



4. Agastache Clayt. 

 A North American genus of about 30 species. 



1. Agastache nepetoides (L.) O. Ktze. Fig. 662, 



Stems erect, 1-1.5 m. tall, branched above; leaves thin, green, ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, to 15 cm. long but much-reduced in size toward summit of stem, 

 acute to short-acuminate, coarsely serrate, rounded to subcordate at base, finely 

 pubescent on lower surface, the hairs evident with magnification; petioles of 

 larger leaves to 6 cm. long, those of the upper leaves progressively reduced to 

 5 mm.; spikes nearly cylindrical, to 2 dm. long, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, commonly 

 continuous, occasionally somewhat interrupted at base; bracteal leaves incon- 

 spicuous, broadly ovate, acuminate; calyx at anthesis glabrous, about 6 mm. long; 

 calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, obtuse to subacute; corolla greenish- 

 yellow; cocci ovoid, commonly smooth. 



Along and on edge of slow-moving streams in forests in Okla. (Washington 

 Co.), June-Sept.; Que. to Ont. and S.D., s. to Ga., Ky., to Mo. and Okla. 



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