172 DIDYNAMIA GYMXOSPERMIA. Scutellaria. 



Whole plant has a peculiarly sweet, aromatic flavour, and 

 makes a pleasant tea, especially mixed with smaller portions of 

 Pepper-mint, Balm, or some others of the same natural family. Sm. 



T. Nepeta. Less Calamint. Whorls on forked, many- 

 flowered stalks, longer than the adjoining leaf. Leaves 

 saw-toothed. Hairs in the mouth of the calpc promi- 

 nent. E. B. 1414. C. 6. 40. Melissa, Sb. 190. 

 Calamintha odore pulegii. G. E. 687- 



Dry banks, ivay sides, on chalk. S?n. Ensham, on the road to 

 Stanton Harcourt. Sb. Bank on the side of the Abingdon 

 Road, going through Bagley Wood. Bx. 



Per. August. 



Stems ascending, square, rough. Ls., stalked, egg-shaped. FL- 

 stalks axillary, repeatedly forked. Cal.-hairs closing it Uke a 

 mouse-trap, very closely. Cor., variegated with pale pur- 

 ple, and white. Ls., smaller than in Thy., Calamintha. 

 Plant pungent, smelling like Penny -royal, (Mentha Pulegium,) 



used as a stomachic tea. 



SCUTELLARIA. Skull-cap. 



Cal. when in fruit, like a box with a fixed lid, or a helmet with 

 its crest. 



S. galericuldta. Coimnon S. Leaves spear-shaped, 

 notched, rugged ; heart-shaped at the base. Flowers 

 axillary. E. B. 5%"^. C. 3. 36. Lysimachia galeri- 

 culata. G. E. 477. 



Margins of rivers, ditches. 



Per. July. 



Stem erect, about one f., and a half, thickly clothed with Is., to the 

 top, square, roughish. Ls., opposite, spreading, stalked. Fl., 

 almost stalkless, a little drooping. Cal. on the upper side with 

 a small, concave scale, enlarged after the fall of the cor. Cor., 

 blue, the palate streaked with white, tube pale, purphsh. Stam., 

 and sty., white. Stig., simple. 

 The cal., becoming dry divides into two parts, and thus the seeds 



are discharged. Plant bitter. 



(S. minor. Less S. Leaves egg-shaped, nearly entire ; 

 heart-shaped, and occasionally lobed, at the base. 

 Flowers axillary. E. B. 524. C. 4. 43. Gratiola 

 latifolia. G. E. 581. 



Moist heaths on gravel. Sm. Packington, Warwickshire. Tur. 



Per. July, August. 



Scarcely one third the size of the former Sp. Ls., broader. Plant 



three to five inches. FL, pale, reddish purple, or delicate pink. 



Lower lip white, dotted with red.) 



