Scutellaria. LABIATE. 381 



spatulate-obovate, entirfe, thickish, nearly veinless, half inch long, tapering into a petiole : 

 corolla white, rather broad and with dilated throat, liardly exceeding the leaves ; lips of 

 equal length. —Proc. Am. Acad. ii. 100, & Bot. Calif. L 604. — N. W. Nevada, near Pyra- 

 mid Lake, Lemmon. 



S. tuberosa, Benth. Soft-pubescent or villous : sterna slender, rather sparsely leafy, 

 1 to 4 inches high and erect, or sometimes reaching a foot in length and trailing : leaves 

 mostly ovate, either truncate or cuneate at base, thin, coarsely and obtusely few-toothed, or 



■ rarely entire (a quarter to inch and a half long), nearly all petioled ; floral about equalling 

 or longer than the violet or blue narrow corolla : nutlets strongly muricate. — Lab. 441 ; 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 60L — Hills, &c., nearly tliroughout California. 



= ==== Flower larger, violet-blue: stems erect, equally leafy: leaves from oblong to linear, all 

 but the lower sessile aud entire : moniliform tubers mor^ rare or obscure, except in the first species. 



S. resinosa, Torr. Barely a span high, branched from the base, minutely pubescent and 

 resinousatomiferous, somewhat viscid : leaves uniform, oval and oblong, or uppermost 

 narrower, obtuse, mostly sessile (5 to 10 lines long), nervose-veined : pedicels shorter tiian the 

 calyx : corolla pubescent, an inch long, with slender tube and ampliate throat ; lower lip 

 glabrous inside : nutlets tuberculate. — Arm. Lye. N. Y. ii. 232 ; Benth. I. c. — Plains of 

 Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. 



S. angustif olia, Pursh. A span to a foot high, minutely puberulent or almost glabrous : 

 stems or branches often simple and slender : leaves from linear to narrowly oblong (6 to 12 

 lines long), all but the lower acute or contracted at base; lower more petioled and some- 

 times few-toothed; radical orbicular or cordate and small: pedicels as long as the calyx: 

 corolla three-fourths to nearly inch long, puberulent, with slender tube and moderately 

 ampliate throat ; lower lip villous inside : nutlets minutely granulate. — Fl. ii. 412 ; Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. 603. — Moist ground, British Columbia and Montana to California, even as 

 far south as San Bernardino Co. 



Var. canescens, Gray, 1. c. More branching, tomentulose-canescent : corolla more 

 arrect by the curvature of the base of the tube. — S. sipJwcampylotdes, Vatke in Bot. Zeit. 

 XXX. 717. — Western part of California, in caiions, &c. 



S. antirrhinoides, Benth. Resembles broader leaved forms of the preceding : stems 

 more branching, diffuse or ascending: leaves oblong (6 to 9 lines long), mostly obtuse at 

 base as well as apex, more petioled : corolla shorter and broader, 7 to 10 lines long ; the 

 tube shorter and less slender. — Bot. Reg. xviii. under 1493, & DCr 1 c. 428 ; Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad., viii. 306. S. resinosa, Watson, Bot. King, 237. — Moist shady ground, Oregon, 

 northern part of California, and mountains of Nevada. 



++ ++ Filiform rootstocks or subterranean stolons not tuberiferous : corolla half to two-thirds inch 

 long, 



= Dull yellow or whitish, with ampliate-iiiflated throat, villous within (at least the lower lip), and 

 short proper tube : all the upper leaves entire, obtuse. 



S. Calif ornica. Puberulent: stems 8 to 20 inches high, slender: leaves from lanceolate- 

 oblong to oval-ovate, mostly roundish at base, short-petioled ; the lower an inch or more 

 long, often somewhat serrate ; upper gradually reduced to half inch or less ; uppermost 

 shorter than the flowers : lips of the corolla about equal : nutlets obscurely rugose-granu- 

 late. — S. antirrhinoides, var. Californica, Gray in Proc. Am. Acid, viii. 396, & Bot. Calif. 

 1. c, mainly. — Banks of streams, California, from Tehama Co. southward, and in the 

 Sierra Nevada. Narrow-leaved forms resemble the preceding ; broader-leaved forms are 

 more like the following species. 



S. Bolanderi, Gray. Pubescent: stem simple or branched from the base, a foot high, 

 equably and very leafy to the summit : leaves ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, closely sessile 

 by an obscurely cordate base, an inch or less long, veiny from the base : flowers very short- 

 pedicelled, seldom equalling the leaf : lower lip of the corolla rather longer. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Sierra Nevada, California, in Mariposa and Plumas Co., 

 Bolander, Lemmon. 



= = Corolla violet-blue, with slender tube and less ampliate throat, naked within. 



S. galericulata, L. Nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent, slender, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 simple or paniculately branched above : leaves membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, broadest next the subsessile or very short-petioled subcordate base (2 inches or 

 less long), all but the upper and more reduced ones appressed-serrate : pedicels shorter than 



