MINT FAMILY 623 



the short petiole, 10-15 mm. long, entire, thickish, nearly veinless, canescent with a minute to- 

 mentulose puberulence ; calyx often purplish, 5-6 mm. long; corolla white, often tmged with 

 yellow or rose, densely puberulent without, 12-15 mm. long, throat rather abruptly dilated, lips 

 about equal in length. 



Dry usually sandy soils. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; Deschutes and Crook Counties, eastern 

 Oregon, to Siskiyou and Plumas Counties, California, also to central Nevada. Type locality: in Winnemucca 

 Valley, 'near Pyramid Lake," Nevada. June-Aug. 



5. Scutellaria californica A. Gray. California Skullcap. Fig. 4370. 



Scutellaria antirrhinoides var. californica A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 396. 1872. 

 Scutellaria californica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 381. 1878. 



Plants with slender rootstocks and erect simple or branched stems 1-3 dm. high, puberulent 

 or minutely tomentose and more or less glandular. Leaves narrowly linear-oblong to oblong- 

 ovate, narrowed at base to a short petiole, rounded at apex, 15-25 mm. long, entire or the lower 

 often 'few-toothed, puberulent with curved hairs; flowers in the upper axils; pedicels slender, 

 about 3 mm. long ; calyx pale green, 4 mm. long, puberulent ; corolla white, more or less tmged 

 with yellow, 15-20 mm. long, the throat ampliate, lips about equal in length, the lower villous 

 on the inner surface ; nutlets rugose. 



Dry usually gravelly soils. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; California Coast Ranges from Hum- 

 boldt and Trinity Counties to Alameda County, and in the Sierra Nevada from Tehama County to Eldorado 

 County. Tvpe locality: Anderson Valley, California. Originally based upon several collections but Bolander s 

 specimen ffom Anderson Valley is the lectotype (Epling, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 20: 31. 1942). 



6. Scutellaria antirrhinoides Benth. Snapdragon Skullcap. Fig. 4371. 



Scutellaria antirrhinoides Benth. Bot. Reg. 18: under pi. 1493. 1832. 



Scutellaria sanhedrinsis Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 31. 1904. 



Scutellaria viarum Heller, op. cit. 32. 



Scutellaria antirrhinoides var. sanhedrensis Leonard, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 732. 1927. 



Perennial with slightly and uniformly thickened rootstock ; stems erect or ascending, simple 

 or diffusely branched, puberulent and sometimes slightly glandular. Leaves oblong-ovate to 

 oblong-elliptic, 1-2 cm. long, entire, obtuse at apex, narrowed at base, sessile or short-petioled, 

 puberulent on both surfaces and somewhat canescent ; pedicels puberulent, 3-5 mm. long ; calyx 

 purplish puberulent, 3^ mm. long; corolla blue with white markings, 1-1.5 cm. long, about 

 2 mm. broad at base of tube and about 6 mm. at throat ; lips about equal in length with entire 

 lobes ; nutlets black, tuberculate. 



Usually on moist rocky slopes and banks, Transition Zones; Willamette Valley and Grant County, Oregon, 

 to Sonoma and Amador Counties, California, east to southern Idaho and central Nevada. Type locality: on the 

 Columbia River, near Fort Vancouver. Collected by Scouler. May-Sept. 



7. Scutellaria angustifolia Pursh. Narrow-leaved Skullcap. Fig. 4372. 



Scutellaria angustifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 412. 1814. 

 Scutellaria veronicifolia Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 681. 1909. 



Perennial with rootstocks often producing tuberous stolons ; stems simple or branched below, 

 1-3 dm. high ; herbage puberulent with minute curved hairs, not glandular. Leaves linear-oblong 

 to oblong-ovate, entire, 1-4 cm. long, narrowed at base to a short petiole, rounded at apex ; flowers 

 in the upper axils; pedicels slender, 4-6 mm. long, these and the calyx minutely puberulent; 

 corolla blue-purple, 20-25 mm. long, upper lip notched at apex equaling or slightly exceeding the 

 lower, tube slender, rather abruptly dilated above into the throat ; nutlets glandular. 



Moist places, Arid Transition Zone; Chelan and Whitman Counties, eastern Washington to British Co- 

 lumbia and northern Idaho, south to Lane, Crook, and Baker Counties, Oregon. Type locality: On the river 

 Kooskoosky," near Kamiah, Idaho. June-July. 



8. Scutellaria Austiniae Eastw. Austin's Skullcap. Fig. 4373. 



Scutellaria Austiniae Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 493. 1903. 



Scutellaria lincarifolia Eastw. loc. cit. 



Scutellaria angustifolia var. Austiniae Leonard, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 726. 1927. 



Perennial with slender branching more or less woody rootstocks, seldom if ever producing 

 tubers; stems simple or branched below, 10-25 cm. high; herbage puberulent with minute curved 

 hairs, not glandular. Leaves ascending, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-linear, 15-25 mm. long, 

 rounded at apex, narrowed at base to a short slender petiole ; flowers in the upper axils ; pedicels 

 slender, 3-4 mm. long; calyx puberulent, not glandular; corolla blue-purple, 20-25 mm. long, 

 sparingly glandular-pubescent on the outer surface, erect, the slender tube curved upward ; upper 

 lip distinctly longer than the lower. 



Gravelly or rocky soils, Arid Transition Zone; Shasta County, south in the Coast Ranges to Lake County 

 and the Sierra Nevada to the San Jacinto Mountains, southern California. Type locality: Big Chico Creek, 

 Butte County, California. May-July. 



9. Scutellaria siphocampyloides Vatke. Gray-leaved Skullcap. Fig. 4374. 



Scutellaria siphocampyloides Vatke, Bot. Zeit. 30: 717. 1872. 

 Scutellaria angustifolia var. canescens A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 603. 1876. 



Perennial with slender branching rootstocks ; stems simple or branched near the base, 1-3 dm. 



