390 151. Scutellaria. 32. LABIATJE. 
PI. ex. cor . 
Watery places; perennial; July and August. 
Stem 4- angular, nearly bald, branched in the middle; 
leaves wrinkled ; petioles very short ; flowers on short pedi- 
cells, solitary or on opposite sides of the stem, looking one 
way ; bractece 2 to each flower ; calyx hairy ; corolla blue. 
2. Scutellaria minor . Small skullcap . 
Leaves heartshape, ovate, edge scarcely nicked ; flowers 
axillary, solitary. ** 
Cassida palustris minima, flore purpurascente, Rail Syn. 244,2. 
Gratiola lati folia, Ger. em. 581. 
Gratiola latifolia, seu nostras minor, Park. 221. 
Scutellaria minor, Lin. S. P. 835. 
Broad-leaved hedge hyssop. Small hooded mint. 
Damp heaths; perennial; August. 
Stem branchy at bottom; leaves rarely toothed at the 
bottom, or hastate; tube of the corolla red; lip white, spot- 
ted with red. 
Fam. XVI. 33. PYRENACEiE. Ventenat. Vitices, Jus- 
^ sieu. Verbenacece , Persoon. 
Labiatis qffines , Link. 
Calyx 1 -leaved, tubular, persisting; corolla tubular, 
mostly irregular, rarely lipped, deciduous ; stamens 4, didy- 
namous, rarely equal, or 2; ovary 1 , free, 2or4-celled; 
ovules upright, solitary; style 1, placed on the ovary; 
stigma simple or 2-lobed ; cariopsides 2 or 4, enclosed in an 
utriculus, 1 -seeded ; utriculus vanishing and membranaceous, 
or persistent and fleshy ; seed upright ; perisperm 0 ; corcu- 
lum placed lengthways; radicle below. — Stem herbaceous 
or shrubby ; leaves not cut or divided, opposite ; flowers in 
heads, spiked or corymbose. 
152. VERBENA. Pliny. Vervain . 
Calyx 5-toothed ; upper tooth smallest and shortest; co- 
rolla funnelshape; tube bent; mouth contracted; limb 
5-lobed, unequal ; stamens 4, didynamous, all fertile ; utri- 
culus membranaceous, vanishing ; cariopsides 4, in the utri- 
culus. — Leaves laciniate or not cut ; flowers spiked ; bractea 
one to each flower. 
Verbena officinalis. Shop vervain . 
Stem upright, mostly solitary; leaves inciso-pinnatifid ; 
spike threadlike, panicled. 
