356 Karl M. Wiegand and Arthur J. Eames 



;'. Tube of corolla upcurved. 16. AIelissa 



;". Tube of corolla straight. 17. Satureja 



i. Stamens straight, distant, often diverging, never converging. 

 j. Plant tall, erect; calyx nearly regular. 18. Pycnanthemum 

 j. Plant low, creeping at base ; calyx 2-lipped. 



19. Thymus 

 g. Corolla nearly regular ; all the lobes ascending ; stamens diverging. 

 h. Fertile stamens 2. • 20. Lycopus 



/(. Fertile stamens 4. 21. Mentha 



/. Flowers in loose leafless panicles, not more than 2 or 3 at each node ; 

 stamens 2. 22. Collixsoxia 



1. Teucrium (Tourn.) L. 



1. T. occidentale Gray. (Including T. occidcntale, var. borcale (Bickn.) Fernald. T. 

 canadcnse of Cayuga Fl.) Germander. 



Calcareous, sometimes apparentlv alluvial, sands and gravels; frequent. July 10- 

 Sept. 1. 



Along the shore of Cayuga Lake and about the larger marshes : near Renwick ; 

 Taughannock Point ; Sheldrake ; Kidders ; s. of Big Gully Point ; Union Springs ; 

 Cayuga ; and elsewhere. 



Ale. to B. C, southw. to Pa., Ohio, Mo., X. Mex., and Calif.; rare or absent 

 on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



2. Trichostema L. 

 1. T. dichotomum L. Blue Curls. 



Dry gravelly or sandy soils, in noncalcareous regions ; rare. July-Sept. 



High bank n. of Beebe Lake, 1879 (F. B. Hine, D.) ; n. crest of Fall Creek 

 Gorge below Triphammer Falls, 1892-1898 ; stony field along Fall Creek Drive 

 near the present iron footbridge (formerly the Waite athletic field), 1894 

 ( A". M. W.)\ hill s. w. of West Danby, 1922 (IV. C. Muenscher & IV. E. 

 \l aiming). Not seen at any of the Fall Creek stations in recent years, as it was 

 exterminated at the first and second stations by the erection of the large bridge, and 

 at the third station by the conversion of land into building lots. 



Me. to Mo., southw. to Fla. and Tex.; common on the Coastal Plain. 



3. Scutellaria L. 



a. Flowers small, 5-8 mm. long, in axillary secund racemes. 1. 5". lateriflora _ 



a. Flowers large, 17-22 mm. long, solitary, axillary. 2. S. epilobiifolia 



1. S. lateriflora L. Skullcap. 



Marshes, swamps, lake borders, and in wet rock crevices in the ravines, showing 

 no lime preference ; frequent. Aug. 



Around Spencer Lake and in Dry Run, Spencer; n. of Key Hill; Michigan 

 Hollow ; s. of Caroline Depot ; Buttermilk Glen ; Dwyer Pond ; Etna ; Fir Tree 

 Swamp, Freeville; Mud Creek, Freeville; McLean Bogs; Paine Creek; and elsewhere. 



Xewf . to B. C, southw. to Fla., X. Alex., and Ariz. ; perhaps less common on the 

 Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



2. S. epilobiifolia Hamil. (See Rhodora 23:85. 1921. S. galerkulata of Gray's 



Man., ed. 7, and of Cayuga Fl.) 

 In marshes and along streams, in various soils and showing no lime preference ; 

 more common than the preceding species. July- Aug. 



