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SCUTELLARIA LABIAT A 555 
Corolla much exserted, recurved-ascending, dilated above, glab- 
rons within, the limb bilabiate: upper lip arched, entire or emar- 
ginate : the lower lip spreading or deflexed, its lateral lobes small 
and somewhat connected with the upper, the middle lobe broad 
and sometimes emarginate, the margins mostly recurved. Sta- 
mens 4, all antheriferous. Nutlets borne on a short or elongated 
ey nobase, 3 “Rios | 
S. laterifiora L. Sp. 598. Perennial by stolons: glabrous throughout 
or pubescent above: stems slender, erect or ascending, usually branched, 
1-2 feet high, leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, thin, acute or acuminate at 
the apex, coarsely dentate-serrate, obtuse narrowed or subcordate at base, 
1-3 inches long, all on slender petioles an inch or more long: flowers in 
narrow, secund, axillary and often also terminal racems, leafy-bracted 
below, several- to many-flowered: calyx about a line long: corolla blue to 
nearly white, 3-5 lines long, its lips about equal, one-fifth as long as the 
tube: nutlets borne on a very short gynobase. In wet places, Oregon to 
Brit. Columbia and across the Continent, 
S. nana Gray Proc. Am. Acad. ii, 100. Minutely puberulent: stems 
1-2 inches high, from thick subterranean shoots, much branched from 
near the base: leaves crowded, from obovate to spatulate, entire, 6-12 lines 
long, thickish, tapering below toa short petiole: flowers solitary and op- 
posite in the axils of the upper leaves, calyx about 2 lines long,: corolla 
white or yellowish, 6-8 lines long, with rather broad dilated throat, the 
lips about equal in length, In claye soil, southeastern Oregon to Nevada. 
S. tuberosa Benth. Lab. 441. Soft-villous or pubescent: perennial by 
tubers that terminate filiform underground stolons: stems 2-5 inches high, 
branching from the base, denselv leafy: leaves thin, from ovate or oblong 
-to broadly lanceolate, obtuse, at the apex, subcordate to tapering at base, 
the blade 3-6 lines long, coarsely few-toothed, all petioled: flowers solitary 
and opposite in the axils of the leaves: calyx about 2 lines long, soft- villous, 
enlarged in fruit: corolla blue or violet, 7-9 lines long: nutlets strongly 
nk Sate In loose soil on dry -wooded hillsides, southern Oregon to 
alifornia. : 
S. angustifolia Pursh FI. ii, 412. Minutely pubescent or almost glab- 
rous: stems erect or ascending, 6-12 inches high, often branched, perennial 
by woody and fibrous roots: leaves from linear to narrowly oblong, entire, 
tapering at base, the blade 6-15 lines long, short-petioled, or the upper 
ones sessile, the radical leaves often roundish or even cordate, and som e- 
times toothed: flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves: calyx in 
flower but little more than a line long, becoming much enlarged in fruit, 
split to the base: corolla blue or violet, 10-12 lines long, with slender tube 
nearly straight at base and moderately enlarged throat, the broad lower 
lip villous within : nutlets minutely granulate. In dry placesinthem nu - 
tains, Brit. Columbia to California. 
S. siphocampyloides Vatke Bot. Zeit. xxx, 717. Tomentulose-canes- 
cent: stems erect, 6-12 inches high, branching, perennial by wood y and 
fibrous roots: leaves from linear to narrowly oblong, entire, 6-15 lines long, 
short-petioled, or the upper sessile: flowers solitary in the axils of the 
upper leaves: calyx about a line long in flower, enlarged in fruit: corolla 
blue to violet, 10-12 lines long, the slender tube recurved at base, and 
above this erect or thrown somewhat backward, the throat moderately en- 
larged upward. In canyons, southern Oregon to western California. 
S. antirrhinoides Benth. Bot. Reg. xviii, under 1493. Glabrous or 
minu : Stems somaw hat cespitose at the ends of white fleshy 
underground shoots, 7-8 inches high: leaves oblong or somewhat lanc eolate 
