380 LABIATE. Scutellaria. 



S. brevifolia. Cinereous-puberulent throughout : stems numerous from a suffirutescent 

 base, rigid, a foot or less higli, very leafy : leaves tluckish, narrowly oblong, 6 to 8 lines 

 long by 2 or 3 wide, all subsessile ; the floral similar, gradually smaller : corolla soft- 

 pubescent, tliree-fourths inch long; lower lip ratlier longer tlian the upper: anthers short- 

 ciliate: nutlets granulate. — S. iiitegrifolki, var. brevifolia, Gray in Cat. Coll. Tex. Hall, no. 

 458. — Dry banks, Dallas, Texas, E. Hall, Reverchon. 



++ ++ Lips of the corolla about the length of the broad tube and throat. 



S. Ploridana, Chapm. Obscurely puber'ulent : stems slender, a foot or more high, rather 

 remotely leafy ancl with some axillary fascicles : leaves very narrowly linear (8 to 12 lines 

 long, seldom a line wide), with somewhat revolute margins ; the lowest minute and scale- 

 like : raceme rather loose : corolla nearly inch long : anthers long-ciliate. — Fl. 324. — Pine- 

 barren swamps, Apalachicola, Florida. 

 # # # Flowers solitary in the axils of cauline leaves, or some occasionally imperfectly racemose 



through the reducliun in size of the upper leaves of the stem or branches. 

 H— Annuals, loosely branched from the base; corolla pubescent, half inch or less long: nutlets 

 muriculate. 



S. cardioph^Ua, Engelm. & Gray. Puberulcnt, slender, a foot or two higli, with 

 virgate branches : leaves cordate-ovate or deltoid-subcordate, mostly obtuse, thin, veiny ; 

 principal cauline inch long, coarsely crenate, slender-petioled ; floral gradually smaller and 

 less toothed, the uppermost entire and subsessile (3 lines long, barely exceeding the calyx) : 

 corolla slender, blue. — PI. Lindh. i. 19; Benth. in DC. I. c. 429. — Open woods, Arkansas 

 and Texas. 



S. Drummondii, Benth. Villous-pubescent, a span or more high, soon diffuse, leafy : 

 leaves ovate or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, half inch or more long, contracted at base, 

 the lower into distinct petioles ; floral subsessile and about equalling the flowers ; all entire 

 or nearly so (rarely subcrenulate) : corolla violet purple or blue (3 to 5 lines long), com- 

 monly with the calyx villous-pubescent, at least when young ; lower lip longer than the 

 upper, violet-spotted. — Lab. 441, & DC. Prodr. xii. 428. — Damp or rich soil, Texas; 

 common. (Mex.) 



•i— -t— Perennials, from a firm or ligneous stock, neither stoloniferous nor tuberiferous : nutlets 

 granulate. 



"S. "Wrightii, Gray. A span or so high, many-stemmed in a tuft, minutely cinereous- 

 puberulent, very leafy: leaves ovate, oval, or spatulate-oblong, entire, subsessile, about 

 half an inch long; upper floral shorter than the flowers : corolla pubescent, half an inch 

 long, usually violet ; lips nearly equal in length ; tube rather slender. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 viii. 370. — Texas, quite to the western borders, Wright, Lindheimer, E. Hall, &c. Kansas, 

 Gordon, L. Watson, with a white-flowered variety. 



•i— -t^ -K Perennials, completely herbaceous and fibrous-rooted, mostly producing filiform stolon- 

 like rootstocks ; 



•H- These more or less moniliform-tuberiferous. 

 = Flower 2 to 4 lines long: leaves broadest at base and all but the lower sessile; primary veins 

 prominent underneath. 



'S. parvula, Michx. Minutely (sometimes more conspicuously) pubescent, branching 

 from the base, commonly erect, 4 to 10 inches high : filiform subterranean shoots bearing 

 a long moniliform string of small tubers : leaves ovate or the uppermost ovate-lanceolate, 

 sessile by a truncate or slightly cordate base, about half inch long ; some of the lower with 

 one or two coarse teeth, the lowest slender-petioled: pedicels as long as the calyx : corolla 

 violet, pubescent, twice or thrice the length of tlie calyx : nutlets strongly muricate, girt 

 with a thickish ring or border, which is conspicuous when young. — PI. ii. 12 ; Hook. Exot. 

 t. 100. S. amhicjua, Xutt. Gen. ii. 37. — Sandy banks, W. New England and along the Great 

 Lakes to Wisconsin, South Florida, and Texas. 



s---^** Var. mollis, Gray. More spreading, softly pubescent throughout (the pubescence 

 somewhat viscid) : leaves larger, less firm. — Sandy banks of the Mississippi, at Oquawka, 

 S. Illinois, &c., H. N. Patterson. A remarkable form, with somewhat the aspect of S. 

 Dnimmond-ii. 



= = Flower half or two-thirds inch long: leaves narrowed at base or petioled: plants depressed 

 or weak and diffuse. 



S. nana, Gray. Minutely cinereous-puberulent, 2 inches high, much branched : filiform 

 subterranean shoots copiously moniliform-tulperiferous ; leaves crowded, from ovate to 



