Scutellaria. LABIAT^E. 381 



spatulate-obovate, entire, thickisli, nearly veinless, half incli long, tapering into a petiole : 

 corolla white, rather broad and with dilated throat, hardly exceeding the leaves; lips of 

 equal length. — Troc. Am. Aead. ii. 100, & Bot. Calif, i. 004. — N. W. Nevada, near Pyra- 

 mid Lake, Lemnion. 



S. tuberosa, Benth. Soft pubescent or villous : stems slender, rather sparsely leafy, 

 1 to 4 inches high and erect, or sometimes reaching a foot in length and trailing : leaves 

 mostly ovate, either truncate or cuneate at base, thin, coarsely and obtusely few-toothed, or 

 rarely entire (a quarter to inch and a half long), nearly all petioled ; floral about equalling 

 or longer than the violet or blue narrow corolla: nutlets strongly muricate. — Lab. 441; 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 001. — Hills, &c., nearly throughout California. 



= = =^ Flower larger, violet-bhie: stems erect, equally leafj-: leaves from oblong to linear, all 

 but the lower sessile and entire: moniliform tubers more rare or obscure, e.xeept in the iirst species. 



S. resinosa Torr. Barely a s^ian high, branched from the base, minutely pubescent and 

 resinous atomiferous, somewhat viscid : leaves uniform, oval and oblong, or uppermost 

 narrower, obtuse, mostly sessile (5 to 10 lines long), nervose-veined : pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx : corolla pubescent, an inch long, with slender tube and ampliate throat ; lower lip 

 glabrous inside: nutlets tuberculate. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 232; Bentli. I.e. — Plains of 

 Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. 



S. angustif olia, Pursh. A span to a foot high, minutely puberulent or almost glabrous : 

 stems or branches often simple and slender : leaves from linear to narrowly oblong (0 to 12 

 lines long), all but the lower acute or contracted at base; lower more petioled and some- 

 times few-toothed ; radical orbicular or cordate and small : pedicels as long as the calyx : 

 corolla three-fourths to nearly inch long, puberulent, with slender tube and moderately 

 ampliate throat ; lower lip villous inside: nutlets minutely granulate. — Fl. ii. 412 ; Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. 003. — Moist ground, British Columbia and Montana to California, even as 

 far south as San Bernardino Co. 



Var. canescens, Gray, 1. c. More branching, tomentulose-canescent : corolla more 

 arrect by the curvature of the base of the tube. — S. siphocampijloules, Vatke in Bot. Zeit. 

 XXX. 717. — AVestern part of California, in cafions, &c. 



S. antirrhinoldes, Benth. Resembles broader leaved forms of the preceding : stems 

 more branching, diffuse or ascending: leaves oblong (O to 9 lines long), mostly obtuse at 

 base as well as apex, more petioled: corolla shorter and broader, 7 to 10 lines long; the 

 tube shorter and less slender. — Bot. Reg. xviii. under 1493, & DC. l c. 428: Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 390. S. resinosa, Watson, Bot. King, 237. — Moist shady ground, Oregon, 

 northern part of California, and mountains of Nevada. 

 ++ ++• Filiform rootstocUs or subterranean stolons not tuberiferous : corolla iialf to two-thirds inch 



long, 

 = Dull yellow or whitish, with ampliatc-inflated throat, villous within (at least the lower lip), and 

 short ])roi)cr tube: all the upper leaves entire, obtuse. 



S. Calif ornica. Puberulent: stems 8 to 20 inches high, slender: leaves from lanceolate- 

 oblong to oval-ovate, mostly roundish at base, short-petioled ; the lower an inch or more 

 long, often somewhat serrate ; upper gradually reduced to half inch or less ; uppermost 

 shorter than the flowers: lips of the corolla about equal: nutlets obscurely rugose-granu- 

 late. — S. antirrhiiwick's, var. Californica, Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 390, & Bot. Calif. 

 1. c, mainly. — Banks of streams, California, from Tehama Co. southward, and in the 

 Sierra Nevad-i. Narrow-leaved forms resemble the preceding ; broaderdeaved forms are 

 more like the following si)ccies. 



S. Bolanderi, Gray. Pubescent : stem simple or branched from the base, a foot high, 

 equably and very leafy to the summit : leaves ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, closely sessile 

 by an obscurely cordate base, an incli or less long, veiny from the base : flowers very short- 

 pedicelled, seldom equalling the leaf : lower lip of the corolla rather longer. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 337, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Sierra Nevada, California, in Mariposa and Plumas Co., 

 Bolander, Lemmon. 



= = Corolla violet-blue, with slender tube and less ampliate Ihnial, naked within. 



S. galericulata, L. Nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent, slender, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 simple or j)anic:iilately branched above : leaves membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, broadest next the subsessilc or very short-petioled subcordate base (2 inches or 

 less long), all but the upper and more reduced ones appressed-serrate : pedicels shorter than 



