SCUTE 
SCU'RVY, adj. Scabbed; covered with scabs; diseased 
with the scurvy.—Whatsoever man be scurvy or scabbed. 
Lev. —Vile; bad; sorry; worthless; contemptible; offen¬ 
sive.—This is a very scurvy tune to a man’s funeral. Shak- 
speare. 
SCU'RVY, s. A distemper. See Pathology. 
SCURVY-GRASS: see Cocheearia.—Scurvy-Grass, 
Scotch : see Soldanel. 
’SCUSES. For excuses. 
I shifted him away. 
And laid good 'scuses on yourexstasy. Shakspeare. 
SCUT, s. [skott, Icelandic.] The tail of those animals 
whose tails are very short, as a hare.—'In the hare it is 
aversely seated, and in its distension inclines unto the coccix 
or scut. Brown. Unused. 
He fled to earth: but first it cost him dear. 
He left his scut behind, and half an ear. Swift. 
SCUTAGE, or Scutagium, in Ancient Customs. See 
Escuage. 
SCUTARI, a lake in the west of European Turkey, in 
Albania, situated about 15 miles from the coast. It is about 
16 miles in length, and 7 in breadth, and contains several 
small islands. The river Moracca enters its northern extre¬ 
mity, and issues from its south-eastern, under the name of 
Bojane. 
SCUTARI, or Iskenderje, a large fortified town in the 
west of European Turkey, in Albania, situated on the river 
Bojane, at the south-east extremity of the lake of Scutari. 
Its position is very favourable for defence, and its highest 
point is crowned by a castle. The town consists of four 
quarters, and its population, composed of Turks, Greeks and 
Albanians, amounts to about 12,000. It has several mosques 
and Greek churches, and is the see of a bishop. The neigh¬ 
bouring plain is one of the richest in Albania, being covered 
with vines and olive plantations, interspersed with hamlets 
and country seats. Scutari is the capital of a pachalic, 
which, after that of Joannina, is the most considerable in 
Albania; 50 miles east-by-south of Cattaro, and 448 west of 
Constantinople. 
SCUTARI, a large village, or rather city, situated on the 
Bosphorus, immediately opposite to Constantinople. Its 
site is one of the most beautiful imaginable, on the slope of 
several hills, and thickly intermingled with trees. The strait 
appears here like a lake, planted round with large cities. 
The minarets of Scutari, and the hills above it, contain the 
most brilliant views of Constantinople and the surrounding 
scenery. It carries on a considerable trade, being a rendez¬ 
vous for the caravans which come from the interior of Asia. 
The population is stated at 30,000. 
SCUTARIUS, among the Romans, besides its ordinary 
signification of a shield-maker, was used to denote one of 
the emperor’s life-guards, because their whole body was co¬ 
vered with armour. 
SCU'TCHEON, s. [scucciene, Italian; from scutum , 
Lat.] The shield represented in heraldry; the ensigns ar¬ 
morial of a family. 
Your scutcheons, and your signs of conquest, shall 
Hang in what place you please. Shakspeare. 
SCUTE, a French gold coin of 3s. id. in the reign of 
king Henry V. 
SCUTE'LLATED, adj. [scutella , Lat.] Divided into 
small surfaces.—It seems part of the scuteLlated bone of a 
sturgeon, being flat, of a porous or cellular constitution. 
Woodward. 
SCUTELLA, in Botany, a little dish, or saucer, is 
used by Dillenius, Linnaeus, and their followers, for 
the peculiar receptacle of the seeds in most species of 
Lichen. 
SCUTELLARIA [from the form of the calyx, like a 
scutellum, a little dish or.saucer], in Botany, a genus of the 
class didynamia, order gymnospermia, natural order of 
verticil!atae labiate (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth one leafed, very short, tubular: mouth almost en- 
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tire: after flowering closed with a lid. Corolla: one-petal- 
led, ringent: tube very short, bent backward: throat long, 
compressed: upper lip concave, trifid ; middle little segment 
concave, emarginate; side ones flat, sharpish, lying under 
the middle one: lower lip wider emarginate. Stamina: 
filaments four, concealed beneath the upper lip, of which 
two are longer. Anthers small. Pistil: germ four parted. 
Style filiform, situation and length of the stamens. Stigma 
simple, curved in, acuminate. Pericarp none. Calyx closed 
by a lid, helmet-shaped, doing the office of a capsule, three- 
sided, opening by the lower margin. Seeds four, roundish. 
It is clearly distinguished from all others by the fruit alone; 
for the calyx resembles a helmet both in the lid and crest.— 
Essential Character. Calyx with an entire mouth, after 
flowering closed by a lid. 
These are all perennial plants, mostly herbaceous, with 
square stalks and opposite leaves: the flowers either so¬ 
litary, axillary and naked, or else in terminating bracted 
spikes, with one bracte or floral leaf to each flower. 
Chiefly natives of the South of Europe and the Levant; 
two only indigenous of Britain. They flower in July and 
August; some from June to October. 
1. Scutellaria orientalis, or yellow-flowered skull-cap.— 
Leaves gashed, tomentose beneath; spikes roundish-four- 
cornered. Stems shrubby, spreading on the ground, and 
dividing into small branches. Corollas of a bright yellow 
colour. Seeds gray. It begins to flower at the end of 
May, and there is commonly a succession of flowers for two 
months, and upwards. There is a variety, which is hoary, 
with the leaves more cut.—Native of the Levant and Barbary. 
2. Scutellaria albida, or hairy skull-cap.—Leaves subcor- 
date, serrate, wrinkled, opaque; spikes directed one way; 
bractes ovate. Very nearly allied to the preceding, but the 
corollas are white and larger.—Native of the Levant and 
Cochin-china. 
3. Scutellaria Alpina, or Alpine skull-cap.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, gash-serrate crenate; spikes imbricate rounded-four- 
cornered. This is very like the next species, but the corolla 
is violet-coloured with a whitish lip.—Native of Switzerland, 
Silesia, Dauphine, Piedmont and Cochin-china, 
4. Scutellaria lupulina, or great-flowered skull-cap.— 
Leaves cordate, gash-serrate, acute, smooth; spikes imbricate 
rounded-four-cornered. Stems shrubby, and trailing. 
Leaves cut on their edges, and smooth on both sides. Co¬ 
rollas white or blue, larger than in any of the other species. 
■—Native of Siberia. 
5. Scutellaria lateriflora, or Virginian skull-cap.—-Flowers 
smooth, with a rugged keel; racemes lateral, leafy. It has 
very much the air of the common sort, but is higher and 
larger, with wider leaves more deeply toothed, and smaller 
flowers.—Native of Canada and Virginia. 
6 . Scutellaria galericulata, or common skull-cap.—Leaves 
cordate-lanceolate, crenate, wrinkled. Root slender, jointed, 
white and creeping. Stems from one to two feet high, up¬ 
right, acutely quadrangular, with the sides a little hollowed, 
and marked with two lines, jointed, leafy, somewhat rugged, 
branched in the middle; the branches opposite and nearly 
upright. Flowers one on each side, subsessile, in pairs 
directed one way, nodding a little, blue and whitish under¬ 
neath, hairy on the outside. Calyx hairy, emarginate, 
fenced above with an arched scale, closing when the corolla 
falls off, and covered by the scale, which then increases in 
size, as with a lid. Seeds from one to four, of a pale brown 
colour, with a rugged surface.—Native of Europe, by the 
sides of ditches, ponds and rivers. By our old authors 
called Hooded Willow-herb or Loose-strife.. 
7. Scutellaria hastifolia, or hastate-leaved skull-cap.— 
Leaves quite entire, the lower hastate, the upper sagitate. Root 
creeping. Stems quite simple, scarcely the length of the 
finger, with about seven joints. Spike almost as long as 
the stem, directed one way, loose, spreading, blue. 
Flowers solitary from each axil of the leaves, which being- 
opposite, the flowers are in pairs.—Native of Sweden, on 
the coast, Austria, Goritia and Silesia. 
8 . Scutellaria minor, or small skull-cap.—Leaves cordate, 
ovate- 
