Scutellaria. LABIATE. G03 



tion of California. — The following all bear single and short-peduneled flowers in the axils of 

 ordinary cauline leaves, but the uppermost leaves are sometimes a little reduced, giving a ten- 



deucy to racemose iutlure.-rcnee. 



* Leaves all broad and somewhat cordate or truncate at base: steins very leafy : propa- 

 gating by filiform subterranean shoots: tubers none or hardly any. 



1. S. galericulata, Linn. Minutely pubescent or partly glabrous : stem a foot 

 or two high, simple or at length loosely branched : leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate or 

 the upper lanceolate, an inch or two long, acute, pinnately veiny, all but the upper- 

 most serrate : corolla pubescent, light blue (about two thirds or three fourths of an 

 inch long), with slender tube and enlarging throat; the lower lip nearly erect and 

 larger than the upper. 



Wet grounds in the Sierra Nevada (Plumas Co., Lemmon): extending north to British Columbia 

 and east to the Atlantic. The only species common to America and the Old World. 



2. S. Bolanderi, Gray. Minutely soft-pubescent : stem a foot high, simple or 

 branched from the base, equally very leafy to the summit : leaves thinnish, oval, 

 obtuse, with subcordate base, closely sessile, an inch long or less, entire, or the 

 lower sparingly somewhat crenately to ithed, a pair nf veins from the base on each 

 side: corolla whitish or cream-colored, two thirds of an inch long, much enlarged 

 above from a short tube; the lower lip ample. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387. 



Wooded portion of the Sierra Nevada : at Clark's, Mariposa Co., Bolandcr. Also Indian Valley, 

 Plumas Co., Lemmon. Leaves 18 to 22 pairs, mostly longer than the internodes. Neither tubers 

 nor liliform subterranean shoots have been seen. 



* * Leaves, at least the upper ones, narrowed or merely obtuse at base, 



+- From oblong to linear, entire or nearly so : sti ms erect : filiform subterranean 

 shoots abundant, but slightly if at all tuberiferous. 



3. S. angustifolia, Pursh. Minutely cinereous-pubescent or almost glabrous, 

 a span to a foot high : stems simple or branching from below : leaves from linear to 

 narrowly oblong (about an inch long), all but the lower acute at the sessile base or 

 tapering into a slight petiole ; the radical leaves often roundish or even cordate and 

 sometimes toothed : pedicels as long as the calyx: corolla blue or violet, an inch 

 long, with slender tube and moderately enlarged throat ; lower lobe villous inside. 



Var. canescens, Gray : a form with so ft -hoary pubescence, and the tube of the 

 corolla often with recurving base, and above this erect or thrown somewhat back- 

 ward. — S. siphocampyloides, Vatke in Bot. Zeit. xxx. 717. 



Sierra Nevada and foot-hills, from Placer Co. northward, extending to British Columbia, The 

 var. canesa nj along the mount iius from Monterey t !o. to Like I ,,. 



4. S. antirrhinoides, Benth. A span to a foot and a half high, resembles tbe 

 i" ling, but with broader and oblong leaves abruptly short-petioled ; the upper 



times lanceolate ; the lower often serrate : corolla shorter and broader through- 

 out, from half to three fourths of an inch long, apparently paler. — Gray, I'i . 

 Am. Acad. viii. 396. S. resinosa, Watson, Bot. King Exp. in part. 



Var. Californica, Gray, L c. Stems more rigid: corolla apparently yellowish, 

 more ventricose, its tube more enlarging immediately above the calyx. — S. angusti- 

 folia, Benth. PL Hartw. 331 (No. 1918), is a narrow-leaved form of this. 



Along streams, Alameda to Mendocino Co. Also in Oregon and the mountains of Nevada. 



+- -t- /.o t'ttilid: strins tote or diffiust : propagating by filiform subterra 



shoots terminated by moniliform tubers. 



5. S. tuberosa, l'etitli. Soft-villous or pubescent, an inch or two high, or at 

 length with diffuse or trailing stems a fool long, slender: leaves thin, from con 



o\ lie to obovate or the upper cuneate-oblong, slender petioled, coarsely more or less 

 toothed: corolla pub. -cent, blue or violet, over half an inch long, and with rather 



l< i tube. 



