Scutellaria minor. Small hooded* 



willow herb. 



SCUTELLARIA Lin. Gen. PI. Didynamia gymnospermia. 



Calyx ore integrb : poft florefcentiani claufb, opefcuiato» 



Rail Sym, Gen. 14. Suffrutices et herbje verticillatje. 



SCUTELLARIA minor foliis cofdato-ovatis fubintegerrimis, floribus axillaribus. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab: 

 p. 457. Sp. Plant, p. 835. 



CASSlDx^ paluftris minima flore purpurafcente. Town. Hiji. p. 410* 



LYSIMACHIA galeficulata minor. Rati HiJ. 572. Syn. 24.4.. The lefler-hooded Loofeftrife. 



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GRATIOLA latifolia. Gerard emac. 585* 



GRATIOLA latifolia feu noftras minor Parkins. 221. Hudfom Fl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 265. Lightfoot 

 FL Scot. p. 320. 



RADIX perennis, repens, alba. | ROOT perennial, creeping, and white. * 



CAULIS ereclus, palmaris, fefquipalmaris, et ultra, fim- 1 STALK upright, a hand's breadth, fix inches, or more 

 plex", fearamofus, in horto ramoliffimus evadit, t in height, fimple or branched, in the garden 



tetragonusj rigidulus, fubhirfutus, bafi pUrpu- 1 becoming very much fo, four-cornered, fome- 



rafcens. t what rigid and hirfute, purplifh at the bafe. 



FOLIA oppofita, fubfeeunda, breviffime petiolata, cor- | LEAVES oppofite, with a tendency to grow one way, 

 dato-Ovata, obtufa, fubintegerrima, in opacis ? ftanding on very fhort foot-ftalks, heart-fhaped, 



glabra^ in apricis hirfuta, et fubinde rubentia. f ovate, obtufe, almoft entire on the edges, in 



y fhady fituations fmooth, in expofed ones hirfute, 



I and fometimes reddilh. 



FLORES parvi, carnei, axillares, bini, pedunculati, pe- J FLOWERS fmall, of a pale red colour, growing by 

 dunculis calyce longioribus. | pairs in the alae of the leaves, ftanding on 



I foot-ftalks longer than the calyx. 



CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, breviffimum, ¥ CALYX : a Perianth ium of one leaf, very fhort, hir- 

 hirfutum, ore bilabiato, integro, fquamula in- 1 fute, the mouth compofed of two lips and en- 



cumbente operculi inftar claufili. jig. 1. % tire, with a fmall fcale like a lid refting on it. 



COROLLA monopetala, ringens, labium fuperius tri- 1 COROLLA monopetalous, and ringent, the upper lip 

 fidunij fuperne villofum, laciniis fubaequalibus, | trifid, and villous above, the fegments nearly 



intermedia concava emarginata, lateralibus re- 1 equal, the intermediate one hollow and nicked, 



motiufculis, nee intermedial fubjectis ficu-t in t the fide ones fomewhat diftant from each other, 



galericuiata. fig. 2. inferiuslatius, emarginatum, | not placed under the intermediate one as in the 



punctis et lineolis rubris pulchre variegatum. f galericuiata. Jig. 2. the lower lip broader, with 



fio\ a, ' I "a fingle notch, and prettily variegated with red 



y lines and dots. Jig. 3. 



STAMINA : Filamenta quatuor, alba, fub labio fu- 1 STAMINA: four Filaments, of a white colour, hid 

 periore recondita, quorum duo longiora. An-| under the upper lip, two of which are longer 



THERiE minimae, albze, ad lentem hirfutulae. % , than the other two. Anther je very minute, 



fig, 4. I white, and llightly hirfute, when magnified. 



PI3TILLUM: Germen quadripartitum. Stylus | PISTILLUM : Gee men divided into four parts. Style 

 albus, longitudine ftaminum, fuperne paulu- y white, the length of the ltamina, thickened 



lurnmcraflatus. Stigma iimplex, incurvatum, | a little above. Stigma fimple, a little hooked, 



acuminatum. Jig. 5. | and pointed, jig. 5. 



PERICARPIUM nullum, calyx continens I SEED-VESSEL none, the calyx containing four feeds. 



^EMINA quatuor, fubrotunda, ad lentem afpera. jig. 6. | SEEDS of a roundifh fhape, appearing rough when mag- 



? nified. Jig. 6. 



NECTARIUM glandula aurantiaca ad bairn germin is. | NECTARY : an orange- coloured gland at the bafe of 

 Jig. 7. * • Ae germen. Jig. 7. 



Gerard, our countryman, appears to have been the difcoverer of this fpecies, to which he gives the names of 

 Gratiola latifolia. Parkinson, who eonfidered it as a plant peculiar to this country, adds to them the epithet of 

 noliras. Tgurnefort, afterwards enumerating the plants growing about Paris, mentions it as growing with them 

 in feveral places ; neverth'elefs it is not common throughout Europe. Indeed Linnjeus, in his Species Plant arum, 

 exprefsly lays, habitat in Anglia. Gerard's referring a plant to another genus, fo obvioufly fimilar in its parts of 

 fructification to what was then called Lyjimachia galericuiata fhews, thai little attention was paid to thofe parts at 

 that time ; nor was he very fortunate in applying to the leaves of fo fmall a plant the name of latifolia. 



Had Linnaeus frequently ieen and cultivated this plant, as we have had opportunity of doing, he would have 

 expreffed no doubt of its being too nearly related to the galericuiata and' bajlifolia. Vid. Spec. Plant. 



hi the time of old Gerard,' this fpecies was found on Hampftead Heath, and on fdme of the boggy parts of that 

 Heath it frill exifts ; but is more plentifully met w r ith in fimilar fituations, on Putney and Shirley Commons. 



It flowers in July, Auguft, and September. On Shirley Common we have ieen it much larger than the fpecimen 

 figured ; and this fummeV found a. fingle plant which had blue flowers. 



