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bractes ovate ; corolla downy, its upper lip entire. Native 

 of the Levant, and Cochin-china. 



3. Scutellaria Alpina; Alpine Scull Cap. Leaves cordate, 

 gash-serrate, crenate, ; spikes imbricate, rounded, four-cor- 

 nered. Flowers pale violet colour, with a white upper lip. 

 Native of Switzerland, Silesia, Piedmont, and Cochin-china. 



4. Scutellaria Lupulina; Great-flowered Scull Cap. Leaves 

 cordate, gash-serrate, acute, smooth ; spikes imbricate, 

 rounded, four-cornered. Stems shrubby and trailing ; flow- 

 ers white or blue, sometimes yellowish-white, very large. 

 Native of Siberia and Tartary. 



5. Scutellaria Lateriflora; Virginian Scull Cap. Leaves 

 smooth, with a rugged keel ; racemes lateral, leafy. This 

 has very much the appearance of the preceding species, but 

 is higher and larger, with wider leaves more deeply toothed, 

 and smaller blue dowers. Native of Virginia and Canada. 



6. Scutellaria Galericulata ; Common Scull Cap. Leaves 

 cordate-lanceolate, crenate, wrinkled ; flowers axillary. Root 

 perennial, slender, jointed, white, and creeping; stems from 

 one to two feet high, upright. The singular construction of 

 the calix deserves minute attention. Dr. Withering remarks, 

 in his Arrangements, that when the blossom falls off, the cup 

 closes upon the seeds, which, when ripe, being still smaller 

 than the cup, could not possibly open its moufb, or overcome 

 its elastic force, as the down of the seeds does in the com- 

 pound flowers, and must consequently remain without a pos- 

 sibility of escaping : but Providence has provided a method 

 to discharge them ; the cup grows dry, and then is divided 

 into two distinct parts, and thus the seeds, already detached 

 from the receptacle, fall to the ground. This plant has been 

 given for the tertian ague, and is said to have proved bene- 

 ficial where the fits were more obstinate than violent. The 

 quantity was from one to two ounces of the expressed juice, 

 or an infusion of a handful or two of the herb. In England 

 however it has never been in use. Native of Britain, and 

 other parts of Europe, by the sides of ditches, ponds, and 

 rivers; flowering in July and August. 



7. Scutellaria Hastifolia ; Hastate-leaved Scull Cap. Leaves 

 quite entire, the lower hastate, the upper sagittate. Root 

 creeping ; stem quite simple, scarcely the length of the finger, 

 with about seven joints. -Native of Sweden, on the coast; of 

 Austria, Goritia, and Silesia. 



8. Scutellaria Minor; Small Scull Cap. Leaves cordate- 

 ovate, almost quite entire ; flowers axillary. This is only 

 one-fourth the size of the sixth species. Native of Eng- 

 land, France, Alsace, and Piedmont, on wet heaths and 

 commons, in boggy ground, and at the edges of ponds in a 

 gravelly soil. It is found on Hampstead heath, but in greater 

 plenty on Putney thirley, Streatham, and other commons in 

 Surry; on Lewesdon hill; in Goldmire near Dalton; on 

 Seaman's moss, next to Altringham, Cheshire ; and on Ware- 

 ham heath in Purbeck, Dorsetshire. 



9. Scutellaria Integrifolia ; Entire-leaved Scull Cap. Leaves 

 sessile, ovate, lower indistinctly serratf, npper quite entire. 

 Stems two feet high, sending out many side-branches. Na- 

 tive of North America. 



10. Scutellaria Havanensis. Leaves cordate, ovate, cre- 

 nate ; flowers solitary, axillary ; both lips of the corolla trifid. 

 Flowers large, blue. A little tender herbaceous, branching 

 plant, procumbent, with the branches rising. It flowers ir 

 December. Native of the Havannah, on maritime rocks. 



11. Scutellaria Hyssopifolia ; Hyssop-leaved Scull Cap 

 Leaves lanceolate, dotted beneath. Native of Virginia. 



12. Scutellaria Purpurascens ; Purple Scull Cap. Leaves 

 petioled, cordate, ovate, toothed ; racemes naked, terminat- 

 ing; both lips of the corolla trifid. Stems herbaceous, pros- 



rate, a span high, simple, obscurely four-cornered, smooth; 

 lowers blue. Native of the West Indies. 



13. Scutellaria Peregrina; Florentine Scull Cap. Leaves 

 subcordate, serrate; spikes elongated, directed one way. 

 Stem downy, two feet high ; flowers purple or white. Native 

 of Italy and Siberia. 



14. Seutellaria Indica. Leaves subovate, crenate, petioled ; 

 racemes almost naked. This species lies on the ground, and 

 appears like Ground Ivy. Native of China and Japan. 



15. Scutellaria Altissima; Tall Scull Cap. Leaves cordate- 

 oblong, acuminate, serrate ; spikes almost naked, with nume- 

 rous downy purple flowers. Native of the Levant. 



16. Scutellaria Cretica. Villose : leaves cordate, obtuse, 

 and obtusely serrate ; spikes imbricate ; bractes setaceous. 

 Native of Crete or Candia. 



17. Scutellaria Nervosa. Plant glabrous ; leaves sessile, 

 ovate, dentated, nervose; raceme terminal, lax, leafy; flowers 

 blue. Grows on the banks of rivulets, in Virginia. 



18. Scutellaria Angustifolia. Plant simple, very slightly 

 pubescent ; leaves linear ; flowers axillary, opposite. Grows 

 on the river Kooskoosky. 



19. Scutellaria Parvula. Plant simple, dwarfish, very 

 pubescent; leaves sessile, ovate, very entire ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, small, pale blue. This is a small plant, never above 

 two inches high, and grows in Canada and the Illinois coun- 

 try. It has also been seen on the banks of rivers in Virginia. 



20. Scutellaria Caroliniana. Plant branchy, very glabrous ; 

 leaves petiolate, linear-lanceolate, acute, very entire ; racemes 

 lax, leafy ; calices obtuse ; flowers yellowish-white, spotted 

 at the apex with blue. Grows in Carolina. 



Scythian Lamb. See Polypodium. 



Sea Bindweed. See Convolvulus. 



Sea Buckthorn. See Hippopha. 



Sea Cabbage, or Kale. See Brassica and Crambe. 



Sea Chamomile. See Anthemis. 



Sea Chickweed. See Glaux. 



Sea Colewort. See Bunias. 



Sea Daffodil. See Pancratium. 



Sea Heath. See Frankenia. 



Sea Holly. See Eryngium. 



Sea Lavender. See Statice Lamonium. 



Sea Laurel. See Phyllanthus, and Xylophylla. 



Sea Milkwort. See Glaux. 



Sea Onion. See Scilla. 



Sea Pea. See Pisum. 



Sea Pink. See Cerastium and Stalice. 



Sea Purslane. See A triplex. 



Sea-side Grape. See Coccoloba. 



Sea Pigeon Pea. See Sophora. 



Seal, Solomons. See Convallaria. 



Secale ; a genus of the class Triandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: common receptacle toothed, 

 lengthened out into a spike; glume two-flowered, two-valved; 

 leaflets opposite, distant, erect, linear, acuminate, less than 

 the corolla; florets sessile. Corolla: two-valved; outer valve 

 more rigid, ventricose, acuminate, compressed; keel ciliate, 

 ending in a long awn ; inner valve flat, lanceolate. Nectary 

 two-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, sharpish, ciliate, gibbous on 

 one side at the base. Stamina : filamenta three, capillary, 

 hanging out of the flower ; antheree oblong, forked. Pistil: 

 germen turbinate; styles two.reflexed, villose; stigmas simple. 

 Pericarp : none, except the permanent corolla, which em- 

 braces the seed, gapes, and drops it. Seed: one, oblong, 

 semicylindrical, naked, pointed at one end. Observe. There 

 is frequently a third floret, which is peduncled, between the 

 two larger sessile ones. It is somewhat difficult to dis- 



