LABIAT-^:. (mint FAMILY.) 



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Var. Sibtliorpii, Boiss. More or less canescent or green with 

 longer hairs intermixed with pubescence — Lower to alpine zones of 

 Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, Amanus, and interior plains. 



7. S. utriculata, Labill. If .1 to .3, Mspid-villous, viscid, ca- 

 nescent ; branches d^cumhmt, hnttle, from a woody stem. Leaves peti- 

 oled, ovate, .01 to .02 long, truncate or cordate at base, crenate-den- 

 tate ; floral leaves ovate, entire, short-petioled, somewhat longer than 

 calyx. Racemes rather dense, at length loose ; calyx inflated in fruit, 

 .01 to .015 long and broad; corolla hispid, four times as long as 

 calyx ; nutlets .0015 long, rough-tubercled — K^j to September — Sub- 

 alpine and alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



Fig. 301. 



b 



Fig. 301. (a) End of raceme of Scutellaria utriculata ; (6) fruiting calyx ; (c) lower leaf. 



17. JSUV^MULA, L. Self-He AL. Heal- All. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, netted-veined, flattened at upper sur- 

 face, bilabiate, compressed and closed in fruit, the upper lip broad," 

 truncate, short-tridentate, the lower bifid. Corolla- tube somewhat ex- 

 serted, ringed within, limb bilabiate, the upper lip helmet-shaped, the 

 lower dependent, obtusely trilobed. Stamens 4, near together, paral- 

 lel under the upper lip, the upper bidentate, the lower tooth bearing 

 an anther ; anthers with two, divergent cells. Style bifid. Nutlets 

 oblong, smooth — Perennial herbs with creeping root, and ovate-oblong 

 spikes of flowers. Fig. 303.; 



1. B. vulgaris, L. 



X .3 to .4, glabrescent or 

 pabescent ; stems ascend- 

 ing. Leaves petioled, ob- 

 long to oblong-ovate, .03 

 to .08 long, entire, or den- 

 tate to pinnatifid. Bracts 

 membranous, hirsute, orbi- 

 cular, abruptly acuminate; 

 teeth of upper lip of calyx 

 short, truncate, mucronate, 

 those of lower lip lanceo- 

 late; corolla violet, short- 



Head of Brunella vulgMis. 



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