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13. Scutellaria galericulata 1,. 



Hooded Willow-herb. Marsh Skullcap. 



(Fig. 3087.) 



Scutellaria galericulata L, Sp. PI. 599. 1753. 



Perennial by filiform stolons, not tuber- 

 beariug, puberulent or pubescent; stem erect, 

 usually branched, i°-3°higb. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate to ovate-oblong, thin, short-petioled, 

 or the upper sessile, acute at the apex, dentate 

 with low teeth or the upper entire, subcordate 

 or rounded at the base, \'-2)2.' long, the up- 

 permost usually much smaller and bract-like; 

 flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles shorter 

 than the calyx; corolla blue, puberulent, 

 nearly or quite i' long, with a slender tube 

 and slightly enlarged throat; gyuobase short. 



In swamps and along streams, Newfoundland 

 to Alaska, south to New Jersey, the mountains of 

 North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, Arizona and 

 Washington. Also in Europe and Asia. June-Sept. 



14. Scutellaria nervosa Pursh. Veined Skullcap. (Fig. 3088.) 



Scutellaria nervosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 412. 



1814. 

 Scutellaria tencriifolia J. E. Smith in Rees' 



Cycl. 32; no. 15. 1816. 



Perennial by filiform stolons; stem glabrous 

 or sparingly pubescent, erect, slender, simple 

 or sometimes branched, 8'-2° high. Leaves 

 thin, glabrous, or sometimes decidedly pu- 

 bescent, the lower slender-petioled, nearly 

 orbicular, crenate, often subcordate at the 

 base, the middle ones larger, ovate, i'-2' 

 long, sessile or nearly so, obtuse or acute, 

 coarsely dentate or crenate, the upper lan- 

 ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, commonly 

 entire; flowers solitarj' in the axils; fruiting 

 calyx about 2" long; corolla blue, 4"-5" 

 long, puberulent, the lower lip longer than 

 the concave upper one; nutlets membranous- 

 winged, borne on a slender gynobase. 



In moist woods and thickets, New York and 

 New Jersey to Illinois, south to North Carolina 

 and Missouri. Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. 

 May-Aug. 



6. MARRUBIUM L. Sp. PI. 582. 1753. 



Perennial branching mostly woolly herbs, with petioled dentate rugose leaves, and 

 small white or purplish flowers in dense axillary clusters. Calyx tubular, 5-10-uerved, 

 regularly 5-10-loothed, the teeth nearly equal, or the alternate ones shorter, acute or aristate, 

 spreading or recurved in fruit. Corolla-limb 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, entire or emar- 

 ginate, the lower spreading, 3-cleft, its broader middle lobe commonly emarginate. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, included, the posterior pair the shorter; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divergent. 

 Style 2-cleft at the summit, the lobes short. Ovary deeply 4.1obed. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. 

 [Name Middle Latin, its meaning uncertain.] 



About 40 species, natives of the Old World. 



