Common HoODED WiLLO W-HERB. 
SCUTELLARIA Lis. Ses. PI. DlDrsAMlA Gymnospermia. Cs/p.v ore integro: poftflorefcentuni 
claufo, operculato. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 14. Suffrutices et Herb^ verticillat^. 
SCUTELLARIA galerkulata foliis cordato-lanceolatis crenatis, floribus axillaribus, Vm. Syjl. Vegelab. 
p. 457. Sp. PI, 835. FI. Suecic. n. 538. 
CASSIDA foliis oblonge cordatis crenatis verticillis nudis bifioris. Haller Hifl. 280. 
CASSIDA galerkulata. ScopoU FI. Carniol. 74. 
LYSIMACHIA cxrulea galericulata, feu Gratiola czerulea. Bauh. pin. 246. 
LYSIMACHIA galericulata. Gerard- emac. 477. 
GRATIOLA csrulea, f. latifolia major. Park. 221. 
CASSIDA paluftris vulgatior flore cseruleo. Rail Syn. p. 244. Hooded Willow-herb, 
Hudfon. Fi Angi. p. 265. 
Lightfooi Fl. Scot. 320. 
RADIX perennis, tenuis, geniculata, alba, repens. 
CAULES pedales aut bipedales, erecti, quadrati, la- 
teribus concaviufculis, bilineatis, geniculati, 
rigiduli, ramofi, ramis -oppolitis, fubereflis. 
FOLIA oblongo-cordata, obtuflufcula, inxqualiter cre- 
nata, fuperiora acuta. 
BRACTEAE duaj, minima;, fetaces, ad bafm pedun- 
culi. 
FLORES bini, fecundi, csrulel, villofi, fubtus albidi. 
CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, breviffimum, 
tubulatum : ore truncato, fquamula incum- 
bente operculi Inftar claufilis. fig. i. 
COROLLA monopetala, ringens. ’Tuhus breviffimus, 
retrorfum flexus. Faux longa, comprefia. L.a- 
biumfuperitis concavum, trifidum : lacinula media 
concava, emarginata ; lateralibus planis, acu- 
tlufculis, intermedia fubjedlis. Labium 
r/V<j latius, eraarginatum, 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor alba, medio craf- 
fiora et ad unum latus villofula, duo breviora ; 
Anther.® parvae, luteae. Jig, 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen quadripartitum; Stylus 
fuperne paululum incraflatus. Stigma fim- 
plex, incurvatum, acuminatum, fig. 4. 5. 6. 
PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx bipartibilis, operculo 
claufus, capfulse vicem gerens. 
SEMINA I ad 4 fubrotunda, pallide fufca, fuper- 
ficie fcabra.^. 9. 10. 
RECEPTACULUM feminum fubrotundum. 8. 
? ROOT perennial, {lender, jointed, wliite and creeping. 
I STALKS from one to two feet high, upright, fquare, 
t the fides a little hollow’d and mark’d with 
I two lines, jointed, fliffifh, branched, the 
■y branches oppofite and nearly upright. 
? LEAVES of an oblong heart Ihape, fbmewhat blunt, 
I {landing on footflralks, rather wrinkly and 
f unequally crenated, thofe on the top of the 
I plant pointed. 
$ FLORAL-LEAVES two, very fmall and fetaceous, 
I at the bafe of the flower flalk. 
I FLOWERS growing in pairs, one way, of a blue co- 
t lour, downy, and whitifh underneath. 
I CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, very Ihort, 
and tubular ; the mouth as if cut off, having 
I a fcale on it which feems to do the office of 
I alid./j-. I. 
? COROLLA monopetalous and ringent. Tube very 
I Ihort and bent backwards. Throat long, com- 
f preffed. upper Lip hollow, and trifid, the 
I middle fegmenth.o\\ovfzxiAriic\ie&', th.c fde ones 
I flat, pointed and placed under the middle one, 
T Lower Lip broad and nicked, fg. 2. 
I STAMINA : four white Filaments, thickell in the 
^ middle and a little villous on one fide, two 
? Ihorter than the others ; Anther® fmall 
I and yellow, fig. 3. 
$ PISTILLUM : Germen divided into four parts. Style 
I towards the top a little thickend ; Stigma 
^ fimple, hooked and pointed, fig. 4, 5. 6. 
I SEED-VESSEL : none, the Calyx which fplits into 
I two parts, being clofed by its lid anfwerg 
I the purpofe of a capfule. 
I SEEDS from one to four, roundilh, of a pale brown 
colour, with a roughilh furface. fig. 9. 10. 
^ RECEPTACLE of the feeds roundilh. fig. 8. 
BOTANY would certainly pleafe more in the ftudy of it, were the Genera as In the prefent inflance diftindlly 
charafterized, the Angular and curious conftrudion of the Calyx in this genus is very deferving of a minute 
attention. 
This fpecies of Scutellaria grows commonly on the edges of rivers and ponds, and flowers in ^une, July and 
Auguft. 
It has a very encreafing root, and hence fhould cautioufly be introduced into the Garden. 
Haller attributes to it the fmell of Garlick which it fcarcely merits. 
