DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Scutellaria. 113 



roundish, incumbent, 2-lobed. Germ. 4-lobed. Style 

 thread-shaped, on a level with the stamens. Stigma 

 simple, acute, incurved. Seeds 4, roundish, in the bot- 

 tom of the permanent calyx, covered by the enlarged 

 dorsal scale, vi^hich is bent down in front over the already 

 closed mouth of the tube. 

 Perennial herbs, with axillary, or spiked and bracteated, 

 handsome, blue, purple, red, or yellow jlonsoers. Leaves 

 simple; either entii*e, or more or less deeply serrated, 

 scarcely aromatic. Cal. when in fruit very peculiar, like 

 a box with a fixed lid. 



1. ^. galer'icidata. Common Skull-cap. 



Leaves lanceolate, crenate, rugged ; heart-shaped at the 

 base. Flowers axillary. 



S. galericulata. Linn. Sp. PL 835. Willd.v. 3. 1 73. Fl. Br. 645. 



Engl. Bot.v.S.t. ^23. Curt.Lnnd.fasc.3. t.36. Hook. Scot.\85. 



Fl. Dan. t. 637. Bull. Fr. t. 275. Ehrh. PI. Off. 146. 

 Scutellaria. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 77./. 1 . 

 Cassida n. 280. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 122. 

 C. palustris vulgatior, flora caeruleo. Raii Syn. 244. 

 Lysimachia galericulata. Lob. Ic. 344./. Dalech. Hist. 1060./. 



Ger. Em. 477. f. 

 Hood-Mint. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 34. f. 10. 



About the reedy margins of rivers, as well as in ditches, and other 

 watery situations, frequent. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping. Herb deep green, often tinged with a violet hiie, 

 more or less downy. Stem 12 or 18 inches high, erect, leafy, 

 .simple, or branched in the middle. Leaves on very short stalks, 

 above an inch long, tapering from a heart-shaped base into a 

 broadish-lanceolate, obtuse figure, with shallow notches or ser- 

 ratures, veiny, scarcely wrinkled. Fl. axillary, solitary, an inch 

 long, drooping, nearly sessile, scentless, variegated with shades 

 of blue ; the lip streaked with white ; the mouth closed. After 

 the fall of the corolla, the closed calyx and its lid become re- 

 markable, and characterize the genus beyond all uncertainty, 



2. S. 7nmor. Lesser Skull-cap. 



Leaves ovate, nearly entire ; hear t-sli aped, and occasionally 

 lobed, at the base. Flowers axillary. 



S. minor. Lin7i. Sp. PI. 835. Willd.v.3.\73. Fl.Br.64o. Engl. 



Bot. V. 8. t. 524. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 43. Hook. Scot. 185. 



Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 5. 6. 

 Cassida palustris minima, flore purpurascente. Tourn. Inst, 182. 



Raii Syn. 244. Lind. Alsat. 2 1 6. L 9. 

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