﻿PLATE CCCCXCIV. 



SCUTELLARIA SERRAT1 



Scwed-leaved Scutellaria. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER I. 

 D1DYNAMIA GYMN0SPERML4. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 *alyx. Os calycis, ad perfectionem seminum jj Empalement. The mouth of the cup, to per- 

 fect the seed after flowering, shuts as if co- 

 il vered by a lid. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Scutellaria with opposite leaves o-vately-point- 

 servatis : floribus ramos terminantibus in eel, and sawed : flowers terminate the 



spica laxa caeruleo-purpurea : caule erecto, branches in a, loose spike of a blue purple.- 



quadrato. colour : stem upright, and four-sided. 



1 1 ibitftt in Carolina et Florida. II Native of Carolina and Florida. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 

 t. The empalement. 



2. The same as it appears after flowering. 



3. The flower spread open, one of the tips mag 



4. Seed-bud and pointal. 



Tni-> Scute Hariri is one amongst the number of those new plants brought from America by Mr. Lyons, 

 very few of which have (we think) proved more attractive than the present subject. The fine purply 

 blue of its flowers is of all colours the most difficult for any effort of art to do justice to. There are 

 seventeen species of this genus enumerated by Willdenow ■ and fifteen of them are senate, one has- 

 tate, and the other (which is called integrifolia) we are inclined to think is intended to characterize 

 our plant; as, a entire-] » !. it is I >.te, and agrees 



very well in other particulars with our species. We have adopted the unoccupied specific title of ser- 

 rata, although it is a character common to almost all the genus, in preference to one that could not, if 

 st icily attended to, ever lead us to the object. The genera that approach nearest to Scutellaria are Tri- 

 r.i.ostema on one side, and Prunella on the other ; from which, and many others that surround it, the 

 most essential distinction is in the singular construction and character of the calyx, which forms its 

 short but well-s, -.as made from a plant in the open bor- 



rdeo of J, Yere, e*n. 



