Scutellaria. iOl 



SCUTELLARIA Linn. 

 Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus, supra gibbus; fructi- 

 fer clausus-, labiis abbreviatis, integ^ris, subaequalibus, 

 demuni usquc ad basim fissis; superiorc decidno: gibba 

 crecta, complanata, squamaeformi. Corolla lon^je ex- 

 serta, bilabiata; fauce ampliata, trig-ona; labio superiore 

 {jaleato, integro vel emarginato; infcriore paulo long^iore, 

 trifido; laciniis laleralibus erectis, saepius labio superiori 

 approximatis^ intermedia maxima, latcribus reflexa; tubo 

 exannulato. Slamina 4, sub jjalea adscendcntia; 2 infe- 

 riora longiora. Antberae pcr paria approximatae, cilia- 

 tae, staminum breviorum bilocularcs, longiorum dimidia- 

 to-unilocularcs; loculi diverg-entcs, conucxivo dilafalo 

 oblique adnati Stjlus bifidus; lacinia superiore minore; 

 inferiore apice stigmatifera. Aclienia toro in fundo caly- 

 cis oblique insidentia , exsucca, tuberculosa vel laevia, 

 haec glabra vel pubc stellulata obsita. Herlae., rarius 

 frutices. Folia integra., rarissime laciniato - pintiatifida. 

 Flores solilarii, oppositi, nunc axillares, nunc spicato-ra- 

 cemosi, terminales et bracteati; bracteis coloratis. Corol- 

 lae caeruleae, Jlavidae, rarius purpurascentes vel coccineae. 



1 . Scutellaria galericulata Linn. Spec. 835. Engl. Bof. 



t. 523. Flor. Dan. t. 637. Schkukr, Handh. 2. 1. 167. 



Hayn^, Arzneigew. 3. t. 36. Mert. ef Koch. Germ. 4. 



331. Benth.Lab. i37. 



Herbacea; erecta; ramosa; magis minusve pubescens; 

 foliis brevifcr petiolatis, ovato-oblongis vel ovato-Ian- 

 ceolatis, basi rotundato-cordatis, remote crcnato-scrra- 

 tis; floribus axillaribus, oppositis, brevifer pedunculatis, 

 secundis; corolla basi geniculato - adscendente, calyccm 

 multo supcrante; acheniis obovalo-subrotundis, axi paral- 

 lele compressiusculis, tuberculosis. 



Cassida gi-alcricnlata Moench. Meth. 413. 



Ad fossas humidas, in ripa fluviorum, ad 



