252 MINT TAMILY. 



29. BEUN:i^Iir.A, SELF-HEAL or HEAL-ALL. (Latinized from the 

 old German name.) Fl. all summer, y. 



B. vulgaris. Low fields and copses ■ low, spreading, with ovate or oblong 

 petiolcd leaves, and 3 flowers under each of the broad and round purplish bracts 

 of the head ; corolla bluish-purple or rarely white. 



30. SCUTELLARIA, SKULI,CAP. (Name from Latin ecutellum, a 

 dish.) Fl. in summer, in species 'ours blue or violet. '4- 



§ 1. Flowers in racemes or spikes Jcrminaf.inrj the stem and branches, 



S. versicolor. River-banks, from Penn. W. & S. : stem stout, l°-.3° high, 

 soft-pubescent, as are the heart-shaped very veiny and rugose crenate and blunt- 

 ish loijg-petioled leaves ; spike-like racemes clammy-pubescent ; corolla almost 

 r long, the lower lip purple-spotted. 



S. ean6seens. From Penn. S.^&W. : stems branching, 2° -4° high; 

 • leaves petioled, ovate or lance-ovate, or- some of them heart-shaped at base, the 

 lower surface as also the racemes and flowers whitish with very fine soft down, 

 otherwise smoothish ; corolla I' longi 



S. pilbsa. Pubescent with spreading hairs; stem nearly simple, ]°-3° 

 high, bearing rather distant pairs' of roundish or oblong-ovate veiny leaves, the 

 lower '.sometimes heart-shaped, upper on short-margjned petioles;, racemes 

 short, the bracts spatulate ; corolla |' Idng. 



S. integrifolia. Along thickets : minutely hoary, 1° - 2° high ; leaves 

 lance-oblong or linear, obtuse, nearly entire, very short-petioled ; raceme short; 

 corolla 1' long, much enlarged upwards. 



§ 2. Flowers short-peduncled in the axils of some of the sessile leaves. 



S. nerv6sa. Moist ground from New York S. W. : smooth, I°-2° high, 

 slender ; leaves roundish or ovate', sparingly toothed, 1' long, those subtending 

 the flowers ovate-lanceolate and entire, the nerve-like main veins prominent 

 beneath ; flowers ^' long. 



S. pArvula. Dry banks and shores, commoner W. & S. : low and spread- 

 - ing, ;i' - 6' high ; with round-ovate or lance-ovate and slightly heart-shaped 

 leaves ^' or more long, and flowers \' long. 



S. galericul&ta. Wet ground N. : smoothish ; the slender simple stems 

 l°-2° high ;■ leaves ovate-lanceolate, sometimes with a heart-shaped base, acute, 

 serrate ; flowers 5' long, with arched upper lip. 



§ 3. Flowers in axillary or some terminal one-sided racemes. 



S. lateriflora. Wet shady'places : smooth, branching, 1° -2° high, with 

 lance-ovatc or oblong acute coarsely serrate leaves on slender petioles ; racemes 

 rather leafy-bracted ; flowers i' long. 



31. MABRUBIUM, HOREHOXJND. (Late Litin name, from Hebrew 

 word for bitter.) Fl. late summer, y 



M. vulg&,re, Common II., from Europe, in gardens and waste places: 

 liranehing, spreading, hoaiy-downy, with round-ovate creaate-rugose leaves on 

 petioles, and small white corolla. 



Black Hoekhound, Ball6ta nIgra, of Europe, and n.itnralized in a 

 few places E., is not hoary, and has purplish flowers with a spreading 5-tootlied 

 border to the calyx. 



32. GALEOPSIS, HEMP-NETTLE. (Name in Greek means like a 

 wrasp/; the likeness not at all obvious.) Fl. summer, (i) 



Gr. Tetr^hit, Common H. Damp waste and cult, grounds, nat. from Eu. : 

 a common weed, rather bristly-hairy, with stem swollen below each joint, leaves 

 ovate and coarsely serrate, and corolla purplish or variegated. 



83. LAMIUM, DEAD-NETTLE. (Name from Greek word for throat.) 

 Low spreading herbs from Old World : fl. spring and summer. 



