
248 PLANTS GROWING IN SANDY SOIL. 
ia Stem : one to two feet high. The whole plant is covered with a soft 
own. 
Nothing can be more bewitching than a stalk of these blue 
flowers intermingled with their light green leaves. The helmet- 
like petal of a deep purplish blue hangs over the others and 
gives the blossoms an odd expression, as though they were 
simply helmets and open mouths ; the latter just ready to snap 
out any morsel of gossip that might be interesting to the 
passers by. 
S. pilosa, hairy skullcap, Plate CXXVIII, has opposite 
roundish, or ovate leaves, and flowers growing in a short ra- 
ceme with spatulate bracts. It is a taller species than the pre- 
ceding and is more pubescent. The blossoms are smaller. 
S. laterifiora and S, galericulata, pages 126 and 127. 
BLUE-CURLS, BASTARD PENNYROYAL, 
Trichostima dichétomum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mint. Blue, turningto Fragrant. Mass. to Florida Late summer and 
purple. and westward. autumn. 
Flowers: single ; axillary, or in raceme-like clusters at the ends of the 
branches. Calyx: tubular; five-cleft. Corol/a : two-lipped; five-divided; the 
upper lobe deeply cleft. Stamens: four; curved; exserted with hairy fila- 
ments. stil: one; style, two-lobed. Zeaves : opposite, on short petioles; 
lanceolate; entire; rather clammy. Stem: branching; clammy. 
Blue curls does its best to be agreeable and throws out an 
abundance of bloom in the late summer. It is not, however, 
very pretty, and it is to be doubted whether its fragrance is 
wholly agreeable. The common name refers to its hair-like 
curling filaments. 
HORSE-MINT, (Plate CXX/X.) 
Mondrda punctacta. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mint. Yellow and crimson. Strongly scented. New York to lilinois July-September. 
and southward. 
Flowers : whorled above the floral bracts. Ca/yx: short; five-toothed. Co 
rolla: two-lipped; narrow in the throat; pale yellow, spotted with deep crimson. 
Floral leaves: whorled; lanceolate; pinkish crimson, veined with a deeper 
colour, 

