392 LABIATAE 



Leaf -blades, at least the upper, obtuse or narrowed at base, always petioled. 



Tubers none or only slightly developed; stems of medium height (5 to 15 inches) and erect; 

 leaf -blades linear to oblong or oblong-ovate or oval. 

 Stems with the leaves smaller above (those subtending the tlowers conspicuously re- 

 duced) ; leaf blades oval-ovate to oblong-lanceolate; corolla white or eream- 



eolor, the lips subequal, the throat subsaccate 3. S. calif ornica. 



Stems equably leafy to the top, the leaves subtending the flowers not at all or only incon- 

 spicuously reduced; leaf -blades (at least above the base) commonly linear or 

 oblong, varying to ovate ; corolla blue to purple, not saccate. 

 Corolla 9 to 14 lines long, its lips unequal and markedly gaping, the erect galea mth 

 its incurved apex standing over and well above the floor of the spreading 

 middle lobe of lower lip ; middle lobe of lower lip recurved-spreading with 



upturned edge; corolla-tube narrow, curving, expanded only above 



4. S. angustifolia. 



Corolla 6 to 7 lines long, its lips subequal, the middle lobe of lower lip as well as the 



galea erect ; middle lobe of lower lip with plane edge ; corolla-tube straight 



or only slightly curved, dilated above 5. S. antirrhinoides. 



Tubers conspicuous, terminating the slender root-stocks; stems low (3 to 5 inches high) ; leaf 



blades ovate to obovate or oblong. 



Leaf -blades ovate, toothed or rarely entire, thinly hirsute; corolla blue; cismontane Cal. 



6. S. tuberosa. 



Leaf -blades obovate to oblong, entire, densely puberulent; corolla white; ne. Cal 



7. /S. nana. 



1. S. galericulata L. Stems slender, simple or branched, % to 2 feet high 

 herbage puberulent; leaf -blades ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, serrate or 

 the upper entire, subeordate at base, 1 to 1% inches long, subsessile or ou petioles 

 1/4 line long, the uppermost much reduced ; flowers axillary, 6 to 8 lines long, on 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx ; calyx and corolla puberulent ; corolla blue, throat 

 naked within, the lower lip nearly erect and slightly surpassing the upper; nutlets 

 densely papillate. 



Stream bottoms and lake shores : delta region of the Great Valley, 5 to 25 feet; 

 northern Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 6500 feet, from Eldorado Co. to Shasta Co. East 

 to Arizona, north to British Columbia, thence far east to Newfoundland. July- Aug. 



Locs. — San Joaquin Co.: Bouldin Isl. (Zoe 4:215) ; Middle Eiver, Congdon. Sierra Nevada: 

 Cascade, Lake Tahoe, Chesnut 4' Brew; Truckee Biver, Sonne; North Fork Feather River, Plumas 

 Co., S. il. Austin; Fall River Lake, Shasta Co., M. S. BaTcer. 



Refs. — Scutellaria galericulata L., Sp. PI. 599 (1753), type European; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 355 (1911) ; Epling, Madroiio 5:57 (1939). S. epiiohiifolia Ham., Ann. Soc. Linn. 

 Lyon 1:32 (1832), ace. Epling I.e.; Jepson, Man. 863 (1925). Cf. also Fer., Ehod. 28:35 (1921). 



2. S. bolanderi Gray. Sierra Skullcap. Stems simple or branching chiefly 

 from base, 6 to 17 inches high, leafy to the top, the leaves equaling or longer than 

 the internodes ; herbage puberulent ; leaf-blades oblong-ovate or ovate-elliptic, ob- 

 tuse, sparsely crenulate or entire, closely sessile by a subeordate or rarely obtuse 

 base, 1/2 to li/4 inches long; flowers on short (i/o to 1 line long) pedicels, not equaling 

 the leaves or only slightly exceeding them ; corolla white, 7 to 9 lines long, the 

 throat ventricose-dilated, villous within, the lips about equal with the lower one 

 dotted or minutely splotched with purple ; nutlets densely papillate. 



Moist soil in meadows and along creeks in the foothills and mountains : Sierra 

 Nevada, 1000 to 4000 feet, from Plumas Co. to Tulare Co. June-July. 



Loes. — Indian Valley, Plumas Co. (Bot. Cal. 1:603) ; South Jackson, Amador Co., Ban.ien 

 448; Angels Camp, Calaveras Co., Davy 14S6; Standard City, Tuolumne Co., Hoover 2552; Mari- 

 posa, Congdon; Rogers Valley, 4 mi. n. of Auberry, Fresno Co., Jepson 12,885; Three Rivers, 

 Culhertson 4199. 



Var. austromontana (Epling) Jepson comb. n. Corolla (tube plus galea) slightly smaller 

 (6 to 7 lines long), the lower lip not spotted. — Southern California, on or near the main montane 

 axis from the San Bernardino Mts. to the Cuyamaca Mts.: Victorville, Parish 10,599; El Monte, 

 San Gabriel Valley, 300 feet (Abrams, PI. Los Ang. ed. 2, 313), perhaps a w.aif from the moun- 

 tains; San Jacinto Mts. (Dav. & Mox., Fl. S. Cal. 315) ; Palomar Mt., McClatchie ; Cuyamaca Mts., 

 T. Brandegee. The altitudes are mainly 2000 to 6000 feet. 



