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DIDYNAMIA, GYMNOSPERMIA. 
278. SCUTELLARIA. Gen. pi. 989. (Labiata.) 
galenculata« 
gracilis. 
lateriflora. 
Margin of the Calia^ entire^, after flowering 
closed with a galeate lid. Tube of the co- 
7^olla elongated. — Mutt. 
1. S. branching ; leaves cordate-lanceolate, cre- 
nate, under side piilverulently pubescent, paler j 
flowers axillary.— 
JS*ot S. galericulata, of Pursh. 
Icon, FI. Dan. 637. Engl. Bot. 523. 
Common Skull-cap. 
A very elegant species, with fine blue flowers. From 
eighteen inches to two feet high, weak, branching. On the 
margins of meadow-drains and ditches, and sometimes among 
sedge in wet meadows of Jersey, not unfrequent. PerenniaL 
July. 
2. S. stem mostly simple ; leaves remote, broad- 
ovate, dentate, smooth and sessile, scabrous on 
the margin, upper ones smaller, entire ; flow- 
ers axillary— 
S. gracilis, INiitt. 
S. galericulata, Pursh ? 
Slender Skull-cap. 
A small species, with simple erect stems, and every where 
very glabrous. On the edges of woods and thickets bordering 
the Schuylkill, particularly between Kingsess gardens and 
Gray’s ferry ; very common. July. 
3. S. very much branched, somewhat smooth ; 
leaves with very long petioles, ovate, dentate, 
nerved; raceme terminal, loose, leafy. — WilUl. 
Side-flowering Skull-cap. 
From a foot to two feet high, with a profusion of blue flow- 
ers. A very handsome species. On the borders of all our 
waters, and on the edges of pools and ditches, very common. 
Perennial. July to September. 
