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broadly ovate, lieart;-shaped, cronate, thin ; the floral sessile, gradually reduced 

 to bracts, each with a single sessile fl.ower. Corolla Ij' long, yellowish-white. 



24. PIIYSOSTEOIA, Benth. False Dragon-head. 



Calyx nearly equally 5-toothed, obscurely 10-nerved, short-tubular or bell- 

 shaped, enlarged, and more or less inflated in fruit. Corolla funnel-fonn with a 

 much inflated throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip rather erect, concave, nearly 

 entire ; the lower 3-parted, spreading, small : its middle lobe larger, broad and 

 rounded, notched. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip : anthers approxi- 

 mate; the cells parallel. — Perennial smooth hurbs, with upright wand-like 

 stems, and sessile lanceolate or oblong mostly ^jcn-ate leaves. Flowers large 

 and showy, rose or flesh-color variegated with purple, opposite, crowded in sim- 

 ple or panicled terminal leafless spikes. (Name from <\>v<Ta, a bhilder, and (rreyai, 

 to cora; on account of the inflated corolla and fruiting calyx.) 



I. P. Virg^iniana, Benth. (Dracocephalum Virginianum, JS., &c.) — 

 IjOw or wet banks of streams, W. New York to Wisconsin and southward. 

 July -Sept. — Varies from l°-4°liigh, stout or slender; the leaves from ob- 

 long-obovate (the lower) to narrowly lanceolate, and from very sharply toothed 

 to nearly entire; the flowers eitlier crowded, imbricated, or scattered; the in- 

 flated fraiting calyx varying from obovate or ovate to globular ; the corolla from 

 6" or 7" to 12" long : no definite marks aj-e yet found for distinguishing two or 

 more species. 



25. BR1J1V£L.I.A, Toum. (Prunella, £.) Self-heal. 



Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, somewhat 10-nerved and reticulated-veiny, flattened 

 on the upper side, naked in the throat, closed in fruit, 2-lipped ; the upper lip 

 broad and flat, truncate, with 3 short teeth ; the lower 2-cleft. Corolla ascend- 

 ing, slightly contracted at the throat, and dilated at the lower side just beneath ilt 

 2-lipped ; the upper lip erect, arched, entire ; the lower reflexed-sprcading, 3-'^:4\ ; 

 its lateral lobes oblong ; the middle one rounded, concave, crenulate. Stamens 

 4, ascending under the upper lip : filaments 2-toothed at the apex, the lower 

 tooth bearing the anther. Anthers approximate in pairs, their cells diverging. 

 — Low perennials, with nearly simple stems, and 3-flowered clusters of flowers 

 sessile in the axils of round and bract-like membranaceous floral leaves, imbri- 

 cated in a close spike or head. (Name said to bo taken from the German braune, 

 a disease of the throat, for which this plant was a reputed remedy. ) 



1. B. vulgaris, L. (Common Self-heal or Heal-all.) Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, entire or toothed, petioled, hauy or smoothish; corolla (violet or 

 flesh-color) not twice the length of the purplish calyx. — Woods and fields; 

 common. Aug. (Eu.) 



26. SCUTEL,I.A.RIA, L. Skullcap. 



Calyx bell-shaped in flower, 2-lipped ; the lips entire, closed in fruit, the upper 

 vith a helmet-like at length concave and- enlarged appendage on the back (the . 

 upper sepal) ; calyx splitting to the base at maturity, the upper lip usually fall- 

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