S90 151. Scutellaria. SS.LABIATjE. PI. ex. cor. 



Watery places ; perennial; July and August. 



Stem 4<-angular, nearly bald, branched in the middle ; 

 leaves wrinkled; petioles very short ;Jlowers on short pedi- 

 cells, solitary or on opposite sides of the stem, looking one 

 way ; bractece 2 to each flower ; calyx hairy ; corolla blue. 



2. Scutellaria minor. Small skullcap. 



Leaves heartshape, ovate, edge scarcely nicked ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary. 



Cassida palnstris minima, flore purpurascerite, Raii Syn. 244,2. 



Gratiola lati folia, Ger. em. 681. 



Gratiola latifolia, seu nostras minor, Park. 221. 



Scutellaria minor, Lin. S. P. 835. 



Broad-leaved hedge hyssop. Small hooded mint, 



Damp heaths ; perennial ; August. 



Stem branchy at bottom; leaves rarely toothed at the 

 bottom, or hastate; tube of the corolla red; lip white, spot- 

 ted with red. 



Fam. XVI. 33. PYRENACEiE. Ventenat. Fitices, Jus- 



sieu. Ferbenacecs, Persoon. 

 Labiatis affines, Link. 

 Calyx 1 -leaved, tubular, persisting; corolla tubular, 

 mostly irregular, rarely lipped, deciduous ; stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, rarely equal, or 2; ovary \, free, 2 or 4;-ce]led ; 

 ovules upright, solitary ; style 1 , placed on the ovary ; 

 stigma simple or 2-lobed ; cariopsides 2 or 4-, enclosed in an 

 utriculus, 1 -seeded; utriculus vanishing and membranaceous, 

 or persistent and fleshy ; seed upright ; perisperm ; corcu- 

 lum placed lengthways; radicle below. — Stem herbaceous 

 or shrubby ; leaves not cvit or divided, opposite ; flowers in 

 heads, spiked or corymbose. 



152. VERBENA. Pliny. Vervain. 



Calyx 5~toothed ; upper tooth smallest and shortest ; co- 

 rolla lunnelshape; tube bent; mouth contracted; limb 

 5-lobed, unequal ; stamens 4, didynamous, all fertile ; iitri- 

 cidus membranaceous, vanishing; cariopsides 4, in the utri- 

 culus. — Leaves laciniate or not cut; flowers spiked; bractea 

 one to each flower. 



Verbena officinalis. Shop vervain. 



Stem upright, mostly solitary; leaves inciso-pinnatifid ; 

 spike threadlike, panicled. 



