WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 555 



3. Mentha rotundifolia (L.) Hiids. Fl. Angl. 221. 1762. Round-leaved mint. 



Mentha spicata rotundifolia L. Sp. PI. 576. 1753. 

 Type locality: European. 

 New Mexico: Mesilla Valley; Tularosa. 

 Common along ditch banks, introduced from Europe, 



6. LYCOPXJS L. BUGLEWEED. 



Perennial herbs from slender branching rootstocks, with lanceolate or narro'nly 

 oblong, toothed leaves, the small flowers sessile in crowded clusters in the axils; calyx 

 2 to 3 mm. long, with equal triangular-subulate teeth; corolla little longer than the 

 calyx, whitish; nutlets triangular, with a thickened border along the edges, shorter 

 than the calyx. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves naiTowly oblong, merely serrate, sessile 1. L. lucidus. 



Leaves lanceolate to ovate in outline, sinuate-pinnatifid, petiolate. 2. L. americanus. 



1. Lycopus lucidus Turcz.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 178. 1848. 

 Lycopus lucidus americanus A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 286. 1870. 

 Type locality: "In montibus Ircutiae." 



Range: British Columbia and Nebraska to California and New Mexico; also in 

 Eurasia. 



New Mexico: Farmington {Standley 7019). Wet ground, in the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



2. Lycopus americanus Muhl.; Barton, Fl. Phila. Prodr. 15. 1815. 

 Lycopus sinuatus Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 26. 1817. 



Type locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 Range: Nearly across Nortli America. 



New Mexico: Farmington; Cedar Hill; Pecos; Chavez; Sandia Mountains; Mangas 

 Springs. Wet ground and in meadows, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



7. SCUTELLARIA L. Skullcap. 



Annual or perennial herbs with small, entire or toothed, short-petioled leaves and 

 solitary flowers axillary to foliar leaves or leaflike bracts; calyx campanulate, 2-li23ped, 

 the lijjs entire, the upper crested, persistent, slightly accrescent; corolla blue or violet, 

 with a recurved tube dilated at the throat, the upper lip arched, the lower with 2 

 small lateral lobes and a large middle onej stamens 4; nutlets papillose-tuberculate. 



key to the species. 



Annual ; plants villous, somewhat glandular 1 . S. drummondii. 



Perennials; plants cinereous-puberulent. 



Woody at the base, not stoloniferous, 20 cm. high or less 2. 8. wrightii. 



Not woody at the base, stoloniferous, 50 to 100 cm. high 3. 5. galericulata. 



1. Scutellaria drummondii Benth. Labiat. Gen. Sp. 441. 1834. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America boreali: ad Rio Brazos a provinciae Texas 

 Mexicanorum." 



Range: Texas and southern New Mexico. 



New Mexico : Sixteen Spring Canyon; Roswell . Dry hills, in the Lower and Upper 

 Sonoran zones. 



2. Scutellaria wrightii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 370. 1872. 

 Type locality: Te.xas. 



Range: Texas to southern Arizona. 



New Mexico: Black Range; Dog Mountains. Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



