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ate : petioles about ]/ 2 as long as the blades : racemes parceled, 

 leafy -bracted, 5-10 cm. long : bracts similar to the leaves but 

 smaller: pedicels stout, 1-3 mm. long: corolla bright blue, 2 cm. 

 long ; tube short, gradually dilated ; lower lip suborbicular, 6-7 

 mm. broad, entire ; upper lip with an entire middle lobe, not re- 

 flexed. 



On river banks, middle Georgia. Summer. 



Related to Scutellaria cordifolia, but the leaf-blades are broader, 

 more rounded and more truly crenate . In the corolla we find 

 a shorter gradually dilated tube, an entire lower lip and an entire 



and straight upper lip. 



The type specimens were collected by the writer on the banks 



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Scutellaria arexicola. 



Perennial, pubescent with short upcurved hairs. Stems erect or 

 ascending, simple or branched near the base ; branches 2-4 dm. 

 long, more or less branched above : leaves firm ; blades ovate to 

 elliptic, 1.5-3 cm - lon £» obtuse or acute, sharply or crenate ser- 

 rate, lower ones truncate at the base, upper cuneate : petioles 

 shorter than the blades : racemes 2-10 cm. long : bracts with ob- 

 long-oblanceolate or oblanceolate blades : pedicels ascending, 2-7 

 mm. long: corolla blue, 2-2.5 cm. long; tube gradually dilated ; 

 lower lip suborbicular, I cm. broad, slightly lobed, notched ; up- 

 per lip usually apiculate. 



In sand, peninsular Florida. Summer. 



Resembling Scutellaria intc^rifolia major Chapm. but much 

 more leafy. The texture of the leaf-blades is much firmer and the 

 nerves prominent, while the margin is toothed to the apex, and 

 none of the leaves entire, as in the case of its nearest relative. 



The corolla furnishes characters in the entire loner lip and the 

 merely undulate upper lip ; the lower lip of S. integrifolta major 

 being erose, while the upper one is manifestly lobed. I have the 



following specimens : 



Florida: Eustis, Lake county, July 16-31. ^94, Nash, 



number 13 16. 



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» Scutellaria Altamaha 



Perennial, pilose-canescent throughout, dull green Stems 

 erect or assurgent, 2-4 dm. toll, obtusely 4-angled, simple, stnet, 



