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LABIATAE. 



Vol. III. 



Scutellaria Drummondii Benth., a low animal villous species with flowers solitary in the axils, 

 admitted into our iir^-t edition as recorded from Kansas, is not definitely known north of Texas. 



7. Scutellaria resinosa Torr. Resinous 

 Skullcap. Fig. 3581. 



S. resinosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: zt,z. 1827. 



V Wrightii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 370. 1872. 



Perennial from a thick woody root, minutely 

 canescent or puberulent and usually resiniferous; 

 stems rather slender, rigid, tufted, leafy, ascend- 

 ing, 6'-io' high. Leaves ovate, oval, or oblong, 

 sessile, or the lower short-petioled, entire, obtuse 

 at tile apex, mostly narrowed at the base, 3 "-6" 

 long; flowers solitary in the axils; fruiting calyx 

 nearly 3" long ; corolla violet or nearly white, 

 very pubescent, 6"-8" long, its tube narrow and 

 lips nearly equal ; gynobase short. 



On dry plains, Nebraska and Kansas to Texas and 

 Arizona. May-Aug. 



8. Scutellaria parvula Michx. Small Skull- 

 cap. Fig. 3582. 



S. parvula Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:11. 1803. 

 Scutellaria ambigua Nutt. Gen. 2: 37. 1818. 

 5. parvula var. mollis A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2' 



Mem. Torr. Club 5: 



380. 

 283. 



S". campestris Britton 

 1894. 



Glabrous, or quite densely pubescent, sometimes 

 slightly glandular, perennial by slender tuberous- 

 thickened rootstocks ; stems erect or ascending, 

 very slender, usually branched, 3'-l2' tall. Leaves 

 ovate, oval or lanceolate, or the lower nearly 

 orbicular, entire and sessile, or the lower dentate 

 and petioled, 3"-l2" long ; flowers solitary in 

 the axils; fruiting calyx about 2" long; corolla 

 2"-4" long, violet, pubescent ; gynobase short. 



In sandy soil, Quebec to Ontario, South Dakota, 

 Florida, Nebraska and Texas. Races differ in pu- 

 bescence and in leaf-form. April-July. Little scull- 

 cap. 



9. Scutellaria Brittonii Porter. 

 Skullcap. Fig. 3583. 



Britton's 



Scutellaria resinosa A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 381. 

 1878. Not Torr. 1827. 



Scutellaria Brittonii Porter, Bull. Torr. Club 21 

 1*94- 



177. 



Perennial by tuberous-thickened rootstocks, vis* 

 cidly glandular, pubescent or puberulent, branched 

 from the base ; stems erect, 4'-8' high, leafy. 

 Leaves oblong or oval, sessile and entire or the 

 lowest short-petioled and slightly crenulate, ob- 

 tuse at the apex, rather prominently veined on 

 the lower surface, 6"-i2" long, the upper scarcely 

 smaller; flowers solitary in the axils; pedicels 

 mostly shorter than the calyx ; corolla pubescent, 

 blue, io"-is" long, the tube narrow below, en- 

 larged above into the throat ; gynobase short. 



Nebraska (according to Coulter) ; Colorado and 

 Wyoming. June-July. 



