Scutellaria hyssopifolia. 9 



after, as a specific for the cure and prevention of hydrophobia, spe- 

 cimens of this plant were brought to me, under the impression that 

 it was that worthless herb unmeritedly characterized with medicinal 

 virtues, by ignorance and popular caprice. Indeed there is much 

 reason to suppose that it was often collected, as well as other plants, 

 for the 8. lateriflora, and used for the cure of the terrific malady so 

 empirically treated by that useless herb. The present species pos- 

 sesses, in common with many of its congeners, a degree of bitter- 

 ness, which is the only virtue of a medicinal kind, that any of the 

 tribe, except S. galericulata has hitherto exhibited. 



table n. 



1. A flowering specimen. 



2. A flower, separated. 



3. Stamens. 



4. Pistil. (All the size of nature.) 



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