298 LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



reduced to short ovate and acuminate bracts : calyx-teeth more or less 

 colored 



1 Li. anisatUS, Btath. Glabroua or very minutely puberulent, 2 or 3 

 feet high : leaves ovate, often subcordate, canescent beneath, anisate-scentcd 

 when crushed: spike short and narrow, interrupted, sometimes leafy below 

 and paniculate : calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate and merely acute, tinged with 

 purple or violet : corolla blue. — Plains, from the Saskatchewan to Nebraska 

 and westward to the mountains. 



2. L. urticifolius, Benth. Like the last, but leaves green both sides, 

 ^mostly crenate and more or less cordate, sweet-aromatic : calyx-teeth lanceo- 

 late, subulate-acuininate : corolla light violet or purplish. — Western slopes of 

 the mountains to Oregon and California. 



11. DRACOCEPHALXJM, Tourn. Dbagon-head. 



Herbs, peculiar for the small and included corolla. 



1. D. parviflorum, Nutt. Ratber stout, 6 to 20 inches high, some- 

 what pubesceiit : leaves lanceolate or oblong, petioled, inciseiy dentate, or the 

 lower pinnatifid-incised ; the lower floral similar : flowers numerous in sessile 

 glomerules crowded in a thick terminal leafy-bracted head or short spike in- 

 terrupted at base : bracts pectinate-laciniate and the teeth aristate : corolla 

 bluish, slender, hardly exceeding the calyx. — New York to British Columbia, 

 and southward along the mountains to New ]\Iexico. 



12. SCUTELLARIA, L. Skullcap. 



Flowers mostly blue, solitary in the axils of the leaves, or in spikes or 

 racemes from the reduction of the floral leaves to bracts. 

 * Flowers small (^ inch long), in axillary and sometimes also terminal racemes. 



1. S. lateriflora, L. Glabrous, a foot or two high, leafy: leaves thin, 

 oblong-ovate and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, rounded at 

 base, slender petioled ; the lower floral ones of the terminal racemes similar: 

 lips of the corolla short, equal in length. — From Oregon to New Mexico and 

 eastward across the continent. 



* * Floivers solitary in ike axils of the caidine leaves, or some occasionally 

 imperfectly racemose, violet-blue. 



2. S. resinosa. Ton*. Barely a span high, branched from the base, mi- 

 nutely pubescent and resinous atomiferous, somewhat viscid : leaves uniform, 

 oval or oblong, obtuse, mostly sessile, b to \0 lines long, nervose-veined : corolla 

 pubescent, an inch long, with slender tube and am.pliate throat. — Plains of 

 Nebraska, AVyoming, and Colorado. 



3. S. galerieulata, L. Nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent, slender, 

 1 to 3 feet hif/h, simple or paniculately branched above: leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 broadest next the subsessile subcordate base, 2 inches or less long, all but the 

 upper appressed-serrate : corolla puberulent, ^ to ^ inch long ; lower lip nearly 

 erect and surpassing the upper. — From British Columbia to Arizona and 

 eastward across the continent. 



