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Obs. This rather showy species is intensely bitter, and, no 

 doubt, might be usefully employed as a tonic. 



f f Flowers axillary, and mostly solitary. 



3. S. galerlculata, L. Leaves lance-ovate, crenate-serrate, 

 rounded or subcordate at base, subsessile; flowers rather large, 

 and turned to one side. 



CAPPED, OR HELMETED SCUTELLARIA. 



Stem. 12 to 18 inches high, with slender spreading branches above, slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, on very short petioles, resinous-dotted 

 beneath. Flowers mostly solitary, opposite, but turned to the same side; pedicels 

 rather longer than the petioles; corolla, about half an inch long, much dilated 

 above, blue at summit, paler below. 

 Hob. Marshy grounds ; Wynn's meadows : rare. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



4. S. nervosa, Pursh. Lower leaves roundish-cordate, petiolate ; 

 middle ones broad-ovate, crenate-dentate, sessile ; upper ones lance- 

 ovate, entire. 



NERVED SCUTELLARIA. 



Stem 9 to 15 inches high, square, with angles acute and almost winged, often 

 decumbent, sparingly branched, slender and smooth ish. Leaves % an inch to 

 1% inches long, prominently nerved, the lower ones purplish beneath. Pedicels 

 solitary, pubescent, longer than the calyx ; galeate appendage of the calyx finally 

 much enlarged; corolla pale blue, % to % an inch long; nutlets rugose-tubercu- 

 late, elevated on a common pedicel. 

 Hob, Banks of Schuylkill: rare. FL May. Fr. July, 



5. S. | I r villa, MX. Stem slender, decumbent and spreading; 

 leaves ovate, or lance-ovate, prominently nerved, mostly entire, 

 subsessile; flowers small. 



DIMINUTIVE SCUTELLARIA. 



Rhizoma creeping, moniliform, with verticils of radicles. Stem 4 to 8 or 10 

 inches long, generally branched from the base, purplish, finally rather rigid, 

 angles minutely scabrous. Leaves % to % of an inch long, margin mostly entire 

 and revolute, under surface often dark purple ; lower leaves roundish-cordate, on 

 short petioles, upper ones oblong-ovate, sessile. Pedicels as long as the calyx; 

 galeate appendage prominent ; corolla violet-purple, about % of an inch long. 

 Hob. Serpentine ridge, West Chester: rare. FL May. Fr. July. 

 Iff Flowers in axillary leafy racemes. 



6. S. laterlfldra, L. Stem rather erect, much branched; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, petiolate. 

 LATERAL-FLOWERED SCUTELLARIA. Mad-dog Scull-cap. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, smooth, angles slightly scabrous, sides concave. Leaves 

 1 to 3 inches long, diminishing as they ascend, thin and smooth, on petioles % an 

 inch to an inch in length. Flowers small, in leafy racemes which terminate th 

 slender axillary branches; pedicels solitary, opposite, in the axils of the small 

 leaves, each with a minute filiform pubescent bract at base ; corolla % to % of an 

 inch long, pale violet-purple (rarely milk white); nutlets tuberculate. 

 Hob. Swamps ; ditch banks, Ac. : frequent Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. Some years since, this plant had much notoriety, in conse- 

 quence of the assertions of Empirics, and some of their partizan 

 newspaper-editors, that it was a sovereign remedy for Hydrophobia 

 and those contemporaries who ventured to doubt, were unsparingly 



