Scutellaria minor. Small hooded- 
WILLOW HERB. 
I 
SCUTELLARIA Lin. Gen. PL DidynaMIa gYmNos£ermia. 
Calyx ore integro : poft florefcentiam claufo, operculato. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 14. Suffrutices et hekba: verticilLata;. 
SCUTELLARIA minor foliis cordato-ovatis fubintegerrimis, floribus axillaribus. Lin. Syjl. F cgetab. 
p. 457. Sp. Plant, p. 835. 
CASSIDxA paluftris minima flore purpurafcente. Fourn. Hi/ 1 , p. 410» 
LYSIMACHIA galericulata minor. Rail Hifi. 572. Syn. 244. The lefler-hooded Loofeflrife. 
GRATIOLA latifolia. Gerard \ emac. 585. 
GRATIOLA latifolia feu noftras minor Parkins. 22 1 . Hudfon. FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 265. Lightfoot 
FI. Scot. p. 320. 
RADIX perennis, repens, alba. 
CAULIS erettus, palmaris, fefquipalmarisj et ultra, fim- 
plex, feu ramolus, in horto ramofiflimus evadit, 
tetragonus, rigidulus, fubhirfutus, ball purpu- 
rafcens. 
FOLIA oppoiita, fubfecunda, breviffime petiolata, cor- 
dato-ovata, obtufa, fubiutegerrima, in opacis 
glabra, in apricis hirfuta, et fubinde rubentia. 
FLORES parvi, carnei, axillares, bini, pedunculati, pe- 
dunculis calyce longioribus. 
CALYX: PerjAnTHium monophyllum, breviffimum,' 
hirfutum, ore bilabiato, integro, fquamula in- ; 
cumbente operculi inflar clauflli. Jig. 1. : 
COROLLA monopetala, ringens, labium fuperius tri- • 
fidum, fuperne villofum, laciniis fubasqualibus, ; 
intermedia concava emarginata, lateralibus re- i 
motiufculis, nec intermediae fubjedlis ficut in ' 
galericulata. fig. 2. inferius latius, emarginatum, : 
punftis et lineolis rubris pulchre variegatum. : 
fis- 3' 
■ ROOT perennial, creeping, and white. 
| STALK upright, a hand’s breadth, fix inches, or more 
in height, Ample or branched, in the garden 
: becoming very much fo, four-cornered, fome- 
what rigid and hirfute, purplifh at the bafe. 
; LEAVES oppofite, with a tendency to grow one way, 
{landing on very fhort foot-flalks, heart-fhaped, 
ovate, obtufe, almoft entire on the edges, in 
fhady fituations fmooth, in expofed ones hirfute, 
and fometimes reddifh. • 
FLOWERS fmall, of a pale red colour, growing by 
pairs in the alae of the leaves, Handing on 
foot-flalks longer than the calyx. 
CALYX: a Peri anthium of one leaf, very fhort, hir- 
fute, the mouth compofed of two lips and en- 
tire, with a fmall fcale like a lid refling on it. 
fig' *• 
COROLLA monopetalous, and ringent, the upper lip 
trifid, and villous above, the fegments nearly 
equal, the intermediate one hollow and nicked, 
the fide ones fomewhat diflant from each other, 
not placed under the intermediate one as in the 
galericulata. fg. 2. the lower lip broader, with 
a Angle notch, and prettily variegated with red 
lines and dots. fig. q. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, alba, fub labio fu- 
periore recondita, quorum duo longiora. An- 
ther as minimas, albs, ad lentem hirfutulae. 
fig' 4- 
PISTILLUM: Germen quadripartitum. Stylus 
albus, longitudine flaminum, fuperne paulu- 
lum incraflatus. Stigma Amplex, incurvatum, 
acuminatum. Jig. 5. 
PERICARPIUM nullum, calyx continens 
SEMINA quatuor, fubrotunda, ad lentem afpera. Jig. 6. 
NECT ARIUM glandula aurantiaca ad bafin germinis. 
fig- 7 - 
under the upper lip, two of which are longer 
than the other two. Anthers very minute, 
white, and flightly hirfute, when magnified. 
. fig- 4 - 
J PISTILLUM : Germen divided into four parts. Style 
I white, the length of the ftamina, thickened 
I a little above. Stigma fimple, a little hooked, 
T and pointed, fig. 5. 
I SEED-A ESSEl, none, the calyx containing four feeds. 
X SEEDS of a rqundiili fliape, appearing rough when mag- 
| nified. fig. 6 . 
I NECTARY : an orange-coloured gland at the bafe of 
T the germen, fig. 7, 
Gerard, our countryman, appears to have been the difcoverer of this fpecies, to which he gives the names of 
Gratiola latifolia. Parkinson, who confidered it as a plant peculiarto this country, adds to them the epithet of 
mjlrus. Tournefort, afterwards enumerating the plants growing shout Paris, mentions it as growing with them 
“■ feveral places ; neverthelefs it is not common throughout Europe. Indeed Linnasus, in Vis Species Plantarum 
cxpretsly lays, bahtat m Anglia. Gerard's referring a plant to another genus, fo obvioufiy fimilat in its parts of 
fructification to what was then called Lyfimachta galericulata Ihews, that little attention was paid to thofe parts at 
that time ; nor was he very fortunate 111 applying to the leaves of fo fmall a plant the name of latifolia * 
Had Ltsn.eds frequently leen and cultivated this plant, as we have had opportunitv of doing he would have 
exp refled no doubt ot its being too nearly related to the galericulata and ba/tifolia. Vid. Spec Plant 
,, ‘n the time of old Gerard, this fpecies was found on Hamffiead Heath, and on fome of the boggy parts of that 
Heath it Hill exifts ; but is more plentifully met with m fimilar fituations, on Putney and Shirley Commons 
It flowers m July, Auguft, and September. On Shirley. Common we have feen it much larger than the fpecimen 
figured ; and this fummer found a Angle plant which had blue flowers. ^ men 
