236 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Mad-dog or Blue Skullcap 



Scutellaria lateriflora Linnaeus 



Plate 185 



Stems slender, erect or ascending, leafy and usually branched, 5 to 

 25 inches high, from a perennial root, propagating by slender stolons. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, thin, pointed at the apex, rounded 

 or slightly heart-shaped at the base, coarsely toothed, i to 3 inches long, 

 on slender petioles, the upper leaves smaller. Flowers blue, several in 

 axillary and also terminal one-sided racemes, one-fourth to nearly one- 

 half of an inch long, sometimes nearly white; the lips of the corolla about 

 equal, the upper lip arched. Calyx two-lipped, the lips entire, the upper 

 one with a crest or protuberance upon its back. 



In wet meadows and marshes, Newfoundland to British Columbia, 

 south to Florida, New Mexico and Oregon. Flowering from July to 

 September. 



Hooded or Marsh Skullcap 



Scutellaria galericulata Linnaeus 



Plate I86a 



Stem erect and usually branched, i to 3 feet high, finely pubescent, 

 from a perennial root, propagating by threadlike stolons but not tuber- 

 bearing. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, thin, short petioled, 

 the upper ones sessile, pointed at the apex, rounded or heart-shaped at 

 the base, the margins dentate with low teeth or the upper leaves smaller 

 and entire. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, usually turned 

 in the same direction and appearing paired, blue; the corolla about an 

 inch long with a slender tube and slightly enlarged throat. 



In swamps, wet meadows and along streams, Newfoundland to Alaska, 

 south to New Jersey, western North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska and Wash- 

 ington. Also in Europe and Asia. Flowering from June to September. 



There are three additional species of Scutellaria in New York of more 

 limited distribution than the two preceding. The Showy Skullcap 



