SCUTELLA RIA PEREGRI'NA. 
FOREIGN SKULLCAP. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Italy. 
18 inches. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1683. 
No. 486. 
The Latin, scutella, a little dish, gives a name to 
the present genus. The peculiar shape of the calyx 
and seed vessel are thus alluded to, both in the sys- 
tematic and English names. The Latin term, per- 
egrina, signifying foreign, strange, or new, seems to 
have marked the attention it excited on being re- 
ceived by its great nomenclator, Linneus. 
The Scutellaria peregrina is a neat growing un- 
obtrusive plant, modestly elevating its pretty one- 
sided spikes of flow ers for examination ; to facilitate 
which, it should be planted near to the edge of the 
parterre. It branches out but sparingly, therefore 
requires little space — a desideratum which none can 
appreciate, but those whose desire of variety, ex- 
ceeds their means of accommodation. 
Through mild winters it succeeds perfectly in the 
borders, but we do not find it bear frosts, although it 
is usually considered quite hardy. The surest plan 
is always to strike it from cuttings, and keep a plant 
or two in the cold frame, for turning into the borders 
in April. It may be raised also from seeds; but 
we have observed that when sown in spring very few 
of them vegetate. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 429. 
