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Scutellaria multiglandulosa. Flowers pale blue, nearly 1 

 in. long. Plants 4-12 in. tall, glandular-pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong or linear, about 1 in. long, often toothed, sessile or 

 nearly so. Pinelands. Blooming in spring. Fla. and Ga. 



False Dragon-Head (Genus PJiysostegia) 



False dragon-head, or obedient plant as it is sometimes 

 called, since the pressure of a finger suffices to change 

 the position of a flower on the stalk, somewhat resembles 

 a pentstemon in its general appearance. The attractive 

 flowers are common in low pinelands, and vary in color 

 from pink to purple. 



Physostegia denticulata. Flowers pink or purplish dotted 

 with darker color, 1 in. long, in racemes. Stamens 4. Plants 

 1-3 ft. tall. Leaves oblong, thickish, 1-4 in. long, entire or 

 toothed, small and few above. Damp grounds. Blooming 

 from spring to fall. Fla. to Ya. and Texas. 



Lion's-Tail {Leonotis nepetaefolia) 



The shrubby cultivated lion's-tail, or lion's-ear, with 

 conspicuous globular clusters of hairy red and orange flow- 

 ers at intervals along the stems, has a smaller but similar 

 relative which grows as an annual in waste, places in the 

 South. 



The narrow flowers, with a long upper lip and short 

 lower lip, are nearly an inch long, and have four stamens. 

 They are massed in a few dense whorls, one to two inches 

 in diameter, around the stems. The teeth of the peculiar 

 two-lipped calyx are sharp-pointed, and after the flowers 

 fall the whorls are extremely spiny, like large burs. The 

 long-stalked, round-toothed leaves, one to four inches long, 

 are broadest near the base, and are intensely bitter. 



Hedge Hyssop (Genus Stachys) 



Though this is not an especially noticeable plant, it is 

 remarkable for the crisp edible tubers borne on the roots. 



