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SCUTELLARIA parvuza. 
Small American Skullcap. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA—Nat. Orv. LABIATZ£. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyz ore integro : post florescentiam clauso, operculato. Co- 
rolla tubus elongatus.—Pers. ; 
Scutellaria parvula; glanduloso-pubescens, foliis ovatis integerrimis ses- 
silibus conformibus, floribus axillaribus solitariis. 
S. parvula, Micu. Fl. Bor. Am. v. ii. p. 11.—Pursn, N. Am, Fl. v- ii: p. 412. 
Root, in my specimens, apparently annual, according to Purs biennial, 
small, fibrous. Plant everywhere covered with short, glandular, pu- 
bescence. Siem erect, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches high, simple, or throwing 
out a few branches from its base, erect, four-sided, leafy. Leaves small, 
opposite, ovate, entire, the margins slightly recurved, the lowermost 
ones, or root leaves, shortly petiolate, the rest quite sessile, veined. 
Flowers springing singly from the axils of the uppermost leaves, opposite, 
pale purplish-blue, placed on short footstalks. Calyx subcylindrical, 
green, tinged with purple, glandular, the back of the crest however gla- 
brous, two-lipped, the dips entire: in a more advanced state, the crest 
becomes greatly enlarged, and forms a sort of helmet or lid to the ‘top. 
Corolla glandular, with a longish tube, curved upward, and there en- 
larged, two-lipped ; the upper lip very short, 3-lobed, the two lateral 
lobes small, minutely crenate, the intermediate one notched, as if for the 
reception of the two upper stamens ; lower lip large, pendent, 3-lobed, 
the intermediate lobe the largest, all of them slightly crenate at the mar- 
gin. Stamens white. Anthers 1-celled, slightly ciliated. Germen form- 
ed of four rounded, green lobes, placed upon the top of a pedicelliform 
receptacle, which has a large, glandular, yellow swelling at the base. 
Style scarcely so long as the flower. Stigma bifid. 
The Scutellaria parvula was first discovered by MicHavux 
in the territory of the Ilinois, North America: it grows als 
_ in Canada, and is described in the Flora *Borealis Amert- 
cane. Mr Goxpre brought home dried specimens and seeds 
from the British settlements in Canada, and succeeded in 
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