252 MINT FAMILY. 



29. BRUTir:^LLA, SELF-HEAL or HEAL-ALL. (Latinized from the 

 old German name.) VI. all summer. ^ 



B. vulg&ris. Low fields and copses ■ low, spreading, with ovate or oblong 

 petioled leaves, and 3 flowers under each of tlie broad and round puqilish bracts 

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



30. SCUTELLARIA, SKULLCAP. (Name from Latin scutelhm, a 

 dish.) Fl. in summer, in species ours blue or violet, y. 



§ 1 . Flowers in racemes or spikes terminating the stem and brandies. 



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

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

 isli long-petioled leaves ; spike-like racemes clammy-pubescent ; corolla almost 

 r long, the lower lip purple-spotted. 



S. caneseens. From Penn. S. & W. : stems branching, . 2° - 4° liigh ; 

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

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

 otherwise smoothish ; corolla 1' long. , 



S. pilosa. Pubescent with spreading hairs; stpra neai-ly simple, l°-3° 

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

 lower sometimes heart-shaped, upper on short-margined petioles ; racemes 

 short, the bracts spatulato ; corolla %' long. 



S. integrif61ia. Along thickets : minutely hoary, 1° - 2° high ; leaves 

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

 corolla 1' long, much enlarged upwards. .' 



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



S, nervdsa. Moist ground from New York S. W. : smooth, lo-20 high, 

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

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

 beneath ; flowers i' long. 



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

 ing, 3' - C high ; with round-ovate or lanee-ovate and slightly heart-shaped 

 leaves ^' or more long, and flowers i' long. ■ ' 



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

 1° - 2° high ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sometimes with a heart-shaped base, actitp, 

 serrate ; flowers 3' long, with arched upper lip. 



§ 3. Flowers in axillary or some tet^ninal one-sided racemes. 

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

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

 rather leafy-bracted ; flowers i' long. 



31. MARRI7BIUM, HOREHOUND. (Late Latin name, from Hebrew 

 word for Bitter.) El. late summer, y, 



M. yulgire, Common H., from Europe, in gai-dens and waste places : 

 branching, spreading, hoary-downy, with round-ovate crenate-rugbse leaves on 

 petioles, and small wliite corolla. 



Black Hokhhouni), Bali.ota nIoka, of Europe, and naturalized in a 

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

 border to the calyx. 



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

 tt'OT-w/,- the likeness not at all obvious.) Fl. summer. ® 



Gr. Tetrtoit, Common II. Damp waste iind ciilt. grounds, nat. from Eii...: 

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

 ovate and coarsely serrate, and corolla purplish or varicgtitcd. 



33. LAMIXJM, DEAD-NETTLE. (Name from Greek word for throat.) 

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



