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flower each, and grow at the top of the Jlalk. 

 It is found on fteep hills. 



Scutellaria Indlca grew in ihady places, on 

 an earthen wall, and was a great rarity. I 

 have never found it any where elfe. On a 

 curfory view it looks very like the Glecoma he* 

 deracea. Ground-ivy, which in our apotheca- 

 ries fhops is fold by the name of Hedera terref- 

 tris. This plant not yet being delcribed by 

 any botanift, I have here drawn up an accurate 

 defcription of it : 



The calyx is divided into two equal fegments, 

 very fliort ; it has behind an elevated, fpoon- 

 like, (harp-pointed fcale, whofe margins are 

 bent down, and clofe after the flower is wither- 

 ed: the corolla is ringent : the tube is cylin- 

 drical, or almoft quadrangular : the upper-lip 

 is trifid : the middlemoft lacinia is emargina- 

 ted, and inflated : the lacinia on the fides bend 

 towards each other, and cover the Jlamina with 

 their fides which are bent inwards : the lower- 

 lip is divided into four lacinia, expanded, ex- 

 cavated, and the lacinia on the fides dotted : 

 the four Jlamina are covered by the upper- lip : 

 two of them are fhorter, and are the length of 

 the Jlylus : the anther a are round and fliort : 

 the germen is divided into four parts : the Jlylus 

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