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SCUTELLARIA* alpina ; var. lupulina. 

 Alpine Scutellaria; hop-flowered variety. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 239.) 



SCUTELLARIA Linn. — Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus : labiis in- 

 tegris (nempe sepalo supremo excluso squamseformi, binis lateralibus in 

 labium superius, 2 infimis in inferius coalitis,) post anthesin clausis, demum 

 ad basin fissis, superiore dorso squamigero ad maturationem deciduo inferiore 

 persistente. Corolla tubo longe exserto, adscendente, bilabiata : labio supe- 

 riore galeato, inferiore eonvexo, lobis lateralibus nunc liberis, ssepius cum 

 labio superiore rarissime cum inferiore coalitis. Stamina 4, sub galea 

 adscendentia, didynama. Anther a ciliatse, staminum inferiorum longiorum 

 dimidiata?, superiorum breviorum cordatse, biloculares, loculis divaricatis, 

 dorso sub oppositis. Styli lobus superior ssepius brevissimus, lobusque infe- 

 rior acuti apice minute stigmatiferi. Ovarium gynopboro incurvo elevatum, 



obliquum. Achenia sicca, nuda, tuberculoso-rugosa. Herbee annuce, 



vel perennes, rariiis suffrutices, caule non nunquam subvolubili scandente. 

 Pedunculi in axillis foliorum floralium solitarii, uniflori. Benth. MSS. 



S. alpina ; caule procumbente, foliis subsessilibus v. breviter petiolatis ovatis 

 serrato-crenatis concoloribus : floralibus membranaceis junioribus imbri- 

 catis, spicis tetragonis. Benth. MSS. 



S, alpina. Linn. Supr(i,fol. 1460. 



S. variegata. Spreng. fil. tentamen. 



S. altaica. Fisch. cat. hort. Gorenhi, 39. Sw. brit.fl. gard. 1. t. 45. 



/3. lupulina; floribus flavis, caule foliisque glabrioribus. Bentham. 



S. lupulina. Linn. Willd. sp.pl. 3. 172. 



S. verna. Besser prim. fi. gal. par. ii. 43. 



S. no. 52. Gmelinfl. sibir. 3. 229. t. 48. 



A hardy, prostrate, herbaceous, perennial plant, found in the 

 south-eastern parts of Europe, and in Asiatic Russia. Siberia and 

 Tartary are named as its countries by Willdenow ; Besser obtained 

 it from the neighbourhood of Tyra, in Galicia; and Gmelin found it 

 in the mountains of the country watered by the river Jaik. 



See fol. 14G0. 



