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the lower with 3 long teeth. Corolla half an inch or more long, 

 white or lavender, with a short tube and broad lower lip. Stamens 

 and styles long, conspicuously exserted. This is said to be the best 

 honey sage. 



*** Flowers large, in dense whorls. Woody only at base. 



d. A. grandiflo'ra Benth. Stem stout, 2-3 ft. high, woolly and 

 glandular. Leaves wrinkled, white tomentose on the lower surface, 

 sinuate-crenate. The lower ones are broadly lanceolate, with the 

 base somewhat arrow-shaped, 3-8 in. long on margined petioles ; the 

 upper are oblong and sessile. Corolla 1^ in. long, bright red, with 

 tube longer than the limb. Bracts broad and membranaceous. 

 Stamens extending beyond the corolla. This is common from 

 near San Francisco southward. It generally grows in the hills. 



VII. SCUTELLA'RIA, Skullcap 



Low perennial herbs, with flowers in the axils of the leaves 

 on short peduncles. Calyx helmet-shaped. Corolla with an 

 arched upper lip and dilated throat. Stamens 4, the lower pair 

 with 1-celled anthers, the upper with %-celled bearded anthers. 



a. S. tubero'sa Benth. Low from slender underground stems ter- 

 minating in small tubers. Leaves ovate, toothed, on slender petioles. 

 Flowers dark blue, over half an inch long. From Santa Barbara 

 County northward. 



b. S. Califor'nica Gray. Stems several, from slender rootstocks. 

 Leaves entire, narrowed at base. Flowers yellowish white, about two- 

 thirds of an inch long. Northern California to Oregon. 



c. S. angustifo'lia Pursh. Stems erect, leafy. Leaves oblong to 

 linear, mostly sessile, entire, except for a few teeth on the lower ones. 

 Pedicels as long as the calyx. Corolla nearly an inch long with 

 slender tube and dilated throat ; lower lip woolly within. Through- 

 out California to British Columbia. 



d. S. galericula'ta L. Stems slender, 1-3 ft. high, simple or 

 branched above. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, almost sessile, serrate, except 

 at the top. Corolla dark blue, less than 1 in. long. Widely dis- 

 tributed. Summer. 



Vin. BRUNEI/LA, Self-heal 



Perennial herbs with usually simple stems and sessile, 

 3-flowered flower-clusters in the axils of kidney-shaped bracts, 



