GENUS 5. MINT FAMILY. ; Tog 
io. Scutellaria Bushii Britton. Bush’s Skullcap. 
Fig. 3584. 
Seutellaria Bushii Britton, Manual, 785. 1901. 
Roots thick-fibrous; stems several or numerous, 
tufted, erect or nearly so, finely cinereous-pubescent, 
6-12’ high. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceo- 
late, obtuse, entire, sessile, }’-14’ long, 2-4” wide, the 
veins rather prominent; flowers solitary in the axils, 
short-peduncled, about 1’ long; corolla short-pubescent. 
Barrens, southern Missouri. May-June. 
11. Scutellaria saxatilis Riddell. Rock 
Skullcap. Fig. 3585. 
S. saxatilis Riddell, Suppl. Cat. Pl. Ohio, 14. 1836. 
Perennial by filiform runners or stolons, 
glabrate or sparingly puberulent; stem slen- 
der, weak, ascending or reclining, simple or 
branched, 6-20’ long. Leaves ovate, slender- 
petioled, thin, coarsely crenate, obtuse at the 
apex, cordate at the base, 1-2’ long, or the 
lower nearly orbicular, and the upper lanceo- 
late, subacute and entire; flowers solitary in 
the upper axils, or clustered in a terminal 
leafy-bracted loose raceme; bracts longer than 
the pedicels; fruiting calyx about 2” long; co- 
rolla light blue, very nearly glabrous, 8-10” 
long; gynobase short. 
On moist banks and in thickets, Delaware to 
South Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee. Ascends 
to 3000 ft. in Virginia. May~July. 
12. Scutellaria galericulata L. Hooded 
Willow-herb. Marsh or European 
Skullcap. Fig. 3586. 
Scutellaria galericulata L. Sp. Pl. 599. 1753. 
Perennial by filiform stolons, not tuber-bear- 
ing, puberulent or pubescent; stem erect, usually 
branched, 1°-3° high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 
to ovate-oblong, thin, short-petioled, or the upper 
sessile, acute at the apex, dentate with low teeth 
or the upper entire, subcordate or rounded at 
the base, 1-23’ long, the uppermost usually much 
smaller and bract-like; flowers solitary in the 
axils; peduncles shorter than the calyx; corolla 
blue, puberulent, nearly or quite 1’ long, with a 
slender tube and slightly enlarged throat; gyno- 
base short. 
In swamps and along streams, Newfoundland to 
Mackenzie, Alaska, New Jersey, the mountains of 
North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, Arizona and Wash- 
ington, Also in Europe and Asia. June—Sept. 
Scutellaria Churchilliana Fernald, of Maine and 
New Brunswick, has smaller flowers, solitary in the 
axiis, its leaves much like those of S. laterifiora, 
and is, perhaps, a hybrid. 
