604 LABIATE. Scutellaria. 



Plains and hillsides, rather common from Monterey Co. northward ; beginning to blossom in 

 February. Varying greatly in size. Upper flowers in vernal specimens sometimes much exceeding 

 the leaves, on the longer trailing stems much exceeded by them. 



6. S. nana, Gray. Depressed, cinereous-puberulent throughout : stems tufted on 

 the filiform subterranean shoots, 2 or 3 inches high : leaves thickish, obovate or 

 ovate, very obtuse, entire, half an inch long, tapering into a short petiole, equalling 

 the flowers : pedicels v.ery short : corolla " white," half an inch long, rather broad, 

 and with short equal lips. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 100. 



On a clay ridge, Vf innemucca Valley, near Pyramid Lake, N. W. Nevada, Lcmmon. Tubers 

 copious, moniliform, an inch or two long. Corolla appearing purplish in the dried specimens, 

 said to be white. 



14. SALAZARIA, Torr. 



Calyx at first campanulate or oblong, with two entire lips and no gibbous projec- 

 tion on the back, in fruit much enlarged and globose-inflated, thin and bladdery, 

 reticulated, closed. Corolla, stamens, &c, as in Scutellaria. Upper fork of the style 

 wanting. — A single species. 



1. S. Mexicana, Torr. Shrubby, 2 or 3 feet high, with slender and divaricate 

 straggling branches, somewhat sarrnentose, canescent : leaves becoming green and 

 glabrate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, mostly entire, an inch or less in length, on short 

 slender petioles ; those of the flowering branches reduced to bracts of the loose 

 raceme or spike : corolla purple or whitish, nearly an inch long, pubescent : scarious 

 fruiting calyx over half an inch in diameter : nutlets depressed, minutely muricate. — 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 133, t. 39. 



S. E. borders of the State, on the Mohave, &c, to S. Utah, and south to the adjacent part of 

 Mexico, Fremont, Parry, Cooper, &e. Named in honor of Signor Salazar, Mexican Boundary 

 Commissioner. 



15. BRUCELLA, Toum. Self-heal. 



Calyx oblong, about 10-nerved and reticulate-veiny, bilabiate; the lips flattened 

 and closed in fruit ; the upper dilated, truncate and 3-toothed, its teeth very broad 

 and short ; lower 2-cleft, the teeth lanceolate. Corolla with ascending tube, open 

 lips, and slightly contracted orifice : upper lip arched and entire; lower 3-lobed, its 

 middle lobe drooping, rounded, concave, denticulate. Stamens 4, ascending under 

 the lower lip : filaments 2-toothed at the apex, the lower tooth bearing the 2-celled 

 anther, the cells of which are divergent. Nutlets smooth. — Low perennials, of 

 two or three very similar species : the flowers crowded in a terminal oblong or cylin- 

 draceous head or spike. 



1. B. vulgaris, Linn. A span to a foot high, roughish-pubescent or almost 

 glabrous : leaves ovate or oblong, slender-petioled, entire or toothed : corolla violet, 

 purple, or rarely white, not twice the length of the purplish calyx. 



Open grounds or borders of woods, near San Francisco and near the Yosemite, probably in- 

 digenous, as it certainly is in Oregon, British Columbia, and eastward : extending round the 

 northern hemisphere. 



16. MARRUBIUM, Linn. Hoeehoitnd. 



Calyx cylindraceous, 5 -10-nerved, of firm texture, 10-toothed ; the alternate 

 (accessory) teeth shorter, spiny-tipped and recurved at maturity. Corolla short, its 

 tube included in the calyx ; the upper lip erect and concave, narrow, -2-lobed at the 

 tip ; the lower spreading and 3-cleft. Stamens 4, included in the tube of the 

 corolla : anthers 2-celled, but the .cells confluent. — Bitter-aromatic whitish-woolly 



