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SCUTELLARIA parvula. 
Small American Skullcap. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.— Nat. Ord. LABI ATM. 
Gen. C^Kn.— Calyx ore integro : post florescentiara clauso, operculato. Co- 
rolla tubus elongatus — Pers. 
Scutellaria parvula; glanduloso-pubescens, foliis ovatis integerrimis ses- 
silibus conformibus, floribus axillaribus solitariis. 
S. parvula, Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. v. ii. p. 11— Pursh, N. Am. Fl. v. ii. p. 412. 
Root, in my specimens, apparently annual, according to Pursh biennial, 
small, fibrous. Plant everywhere covered with short, glandular, pu- 
bescence. Stem erect, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches high, simple, or throwmg 
out a few branches from its base, erect, four-sided, leafy. Leaves small, 
opposite, ovate, entire, the margins slightly recurved, the lowermost 
ones, or root leaves, shortly petiolate, the rest quite sessile, veined. 
Flowers springing singly from the axils of the uppermost leaves, opposite, 
pale purplish-blue, placed on short footstalks. Calyx subcylmdrical, 
green, tinged with purple, glandular, the back of the crest however gla- 
brous, two-lipped, the lips entire: in a more advanced state, the crest 
becomes greatly enlarged, and forms a sort of helmet or lid to the top. 
Corolla glandular, with a longish tube, curved upward, and there en- 
larged, two-lipped ; the upper lip very short, S-lobed, the two lateral 
lobes small, minutely crenate, the intermediate one notched, as if for the 
reception of the two upper stamens; fower Zi/) large, pendent, 3-lobed, 
the intermediate lobe the largest, all of them slightly crenate at the mar- 
gin. Stamens ^vhite. ^nMer. l-celled, slightly ciliated. Germen foTm- 
ed of four rounded, green lobes, placed upon the top of a pedicelliform 
receptacle, which has a large, glandular, yellow swelling at the base. 
Style scarcely so long as the flower. Stigma bifid. 
The Scutellaria parvula was first discovered by Michaux 
in tlie territory of the IHnois, North America: it grows also 
in Canada, and is described in the Flora Borealis Amen- 
canoe. Mr Goldie brought home dried specimens and seeds 
from the British settlements in Canada, and succeeded in 
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