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10. SCUTELLARIA, L. SKULLCAP. 



Calyx, with two entire lips and a gibbous projection on the back, closed after flower- 

 ing. Corolla, with an elongated and curved ascending tube, a dilated throat, an erect 

 arched or galeate upper lip, with which tho lateral lobes appear to be connected; the 

 anterior lobe appearing to form the whole lower lip. Herbs, not aromatic; with single 

 axillary, rather conspicuous flowers. 



1. S. angiistifolia, Pursh. A span to a foot high; leaves about an inch long; the 

 radical ones often roundish or even cordate; corolla blue or violet, an inch long, with a 

 slender tube; lower lobe villous inside. Ours is mainly 



Var. canescens, Gr. A form with soft, hoary pubescence, and the tube of the 

 corolla bent so as to throw the upper part backward. 



2. S. Calif ornica, Gr. Puberulent; stems 8 to 20 inches high, slender; leaves 

 from lanceolate-oblong to oval-ovate; the lower an inch or more long, often serrate; upper 

 gradually reduced to half an inch or less; lips of tho yellowish corolla about equal. 



3. S. tuberosa, Benth. Soft, pubescent or villous; stems slender, erect and short, 

 or trailing a foot in length; the filiform subterranean shoots bearing tubers; leaves mostly 

 ovate, coarsely and obtusely few-toothed or entire, 5 to IS lines long; corolla deep blue, 

 or violet 



11. BRUNETiTiA, Tourn. SELF-HEAL. 



Calyx-lips closed in fruit. Corolla with ascending tube, open lips, and slightly-con- 

 tracted orifice; upper lip arched and entira; lower 3-lobed, its middle lobe drooping, 

 rounded, concave, denticulate. Low perennials, the flowers crowded in a terminal ob- 

 long or cylindraceous head or spike. 



1. B. vulgaris, L. A span to a foot or more in height; leaves ovate or oblong, slen- 

 der-pet ioled: corolla violet, purple, or rarely white; calyx purplish. 



12. STACHYS, L. 



Corolla with cylindrical tube not dilated at the throat; the upper lip erect and concave 

 or arched; the lower spreading, its middle lobe larger. Stamens ascending under the 

 upper lip; filaments naked; anthers approximate in pairs, 2-celled. Herbs, not aro- 

 matic, with flowers clustered, capitate, or scattered, often spicate at the end of the 

 branches; flowers sessile or nearly so. 



* Corolla white or whitish; the upper lip bearded or woolly on tJic back; herbage tomentose 



or soft hairy. 



1. S. ajugoides, Benth. A span to a foot high; silky -villous with whitish hairs; 

 leaves oblong, very obtuse, crenately serrate, 1 to 3 inches long, the upper sessile; flow- 

 ers about 3 in the axils of the distant upper leaves, and loosely leafy-spicate at the sum. 

 miL Moist ground. 



