402 LAMIACEAE 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, hedges, borders of fields, &c. 

 Often in dry situations, and a conspicuous feature in our spring 

 vegetation. Abundant and generally distributed. P. March- 

 June. 

 First record. Glecoma hederacea, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. Pitccinia 

 Glechoinatis, Link, is not uncommon on it about Oxford, Baxt. 

 Phaen. Bot. n. 136, 1835. 

 Var. PARviFLOKA, Benth. 1. c, in which the flowers are usually 

 pistillate, has been noticed. A hairy form is not unfrequent, /. hirsuta 

 (var. hirsuta, Reichb., not Olechoma hirsuta, Waldst. & Kit.). 



I have seen it near Hampstead Norris, Basildon, Bucklebury, &c. 

 Nepeta Glechoma is found plentifully in all the bordering counties. 



SCUTELLARIA, Linn. Gen. n. 653 (Cassida, Tournefort, Inst. t. 84). 

 S. g-alericulata, Linn. Sp. PI. 599 (1753). Skull-cap, Hedge Hyssop. 



Lysiinachia galericulata, Ger. Em. 477. Scutellaria, Rivinus. 

 Top. Bot. 321, Syme, E. B. vii. 47, t. 1060. Nyman, 573. Fl. Oxf. 227. 

 Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers, canals, brooks, and ponds. Common 

 and generally distributed except on the high chalk-downs. P. 

 June-September. 

 First record. Hedge Hyssop in great plenty on the banks of the Ocke, 

 Spencer's Complete British Trateller, 1771. Sonning, Mr. S. Budge, 

 1800, in Herb. Brit. Mus. S. galericidata, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



The plant is too frequent to need a list of localities. It is a pretty 

 adornment of our I'iver-banks as seen from a boat. A white-flowered 

 form,/, alba, has been seen at Abingdon hy Mr. Whitwell, and I have 

 noticed it near Tadpole Bridge, near Godstow, near Sutton, Hurley, 

 and at Frogmore. 



When growing in shade among other herbage the Skull-cap becomes 

 a straggling plant of considerable size, as near Wokingham, near 

 Abingdon, and at Bulmarsh. 



The nutlets are carried down by the stream, and specimens are 

 often seen in the stonework by the river- side, as near Iffley, &c. 



Var. LEioSEPALA, mihi, is a large foi'm in which the calyx is nearly 

 glabrous. Usually the calyx is thickly clothed with hairs. I saw it 

 near Wokingham mill-pond. 



S. GALERICULATA X MINOR = S. Nicholsoni, Taubcrt in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 

 Prov. Brand, xxvii. (1886-7) 25, 

 This interesting hybrid was discovered by Mr. G. Nicholson in 1883 

 and recorded as follows : ' Virginia Water. It grows in considerable 

 quantity [in the above station], occurring in both Berkshire and 

 Surrey. Dr. Focke, who has made a special study of plant hybrids, 

 says: "Intermediate between S. galericulata and S. minor ; probably 



