GENUS 5. 



MINT FAMILY. 



10. Scutellaria Bushii Britton. Bush's Skullcap. 

 Fig- 3584. 



ia Bushii Britton, Manual, 785. 1901. 



Roots thick-fibrous; stems several or numerous, 

 tufted, erect or nearly so, finely cinereous-pubescent, 

 6'-i2' high. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, entire, sessile, f'-ii' long, 2"-4 ' wide, the 

 veins rather prominent; flowers solitary in the axils, 

 short-peduncled, about i' long; corolla short-pubescent. 



Barrens, southern Missouri. May-June. 



ii. Scutellaria saxatilis Riddell. Rock 

 Skullcap. Fig. 3585. 



S. saxatilis Riddell, Suppl. Cat. PI. Ohio, 14. 1836. 



Perennial by filiform runners or stolons, 

 glabrate or sparingly puberulent; stem slen- 

 der, weak, ascending or reclining, simple or 

 branched, 6'-2o' long. Leaves ovate, slender- 

 petioled, thin, coarsely crenate, obtuse at the 

 apex, cordate at the base, i'-2' long, or the 

 lower nearly orbicular, and the upper lanceo- 

 late, subacute and entire; flowers solitary in 

 the upper axils, or clustered in a terminal 

 leafy-bracted loose raceme ; bracts longer than 

 the pedicels ; fruiting calyx about 2" long co-' 

 rolla light blue, very nearly glabrous, 8"-io" 

 long; gynobase short. 



On moist banks and in thickets, Delaware to 

 South Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee. Ascends 

 to 3000 ft. in Virginia. May-July. 



12. Scutellaria galericulata L. Hooded 



Willow-herb. Marsh or European 



Skullcap. Fig. 3586. 



Scutellaria galericulata L. Sp. PI. 599. 1753. 



Perennial by filiform stolons, not tuber-bear- 

 ing, puberulent or pubescent; stem erect, usually 

 branched, i-3 high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 to ovate-oblong, thin, short-petioled, or the upper 

 sessile, acute at the apex, dentate with low teeth 

 or the upper entire, subcordate or rounded at 

 the base, i'-2i' long, the uppermost usually much 

 smaller and bract-like; flowers solitary in the 

 axils ; peduncles shorter than the calyx ; corolla 

 blue, puberulent, nearly or quite i' long, with a 

 slender tube and slightly enlarged throat; gyno- 

 base short. 



In swamps and along streams, Newfoundland to 

 Mackenzie, Alaska, New Jersey, the mountains of 

 North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, Arizona and Wash- 

 ington, Also in Europe and Asia. June-Sept. 



Scutellaria Churchilliana Fernald, of Maine and 

 New Brunswick, has smaller flowers, solitary in the 

 axils, its leaves much like those of S. laterifiora, 

 and is, perhaps, a hybrid. 



