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ovate, almost quite entire. This is only one-fourth of the 
Size of the common sort. Flowers axillary, red or purple- 
flesh-coloured, with a white lip, and blood-red dots.—Native 
of England, France, Alsace and Piedmont; on wet heaths 
and commons, in boggy ground, and at the edges of ponds, 
in a gravelly soil. 
9. Scutellaria integrifolia, or entire-leaved skull-cap.— 
Leaves sessile, ovate, lower -indistinctly, serrate, upper quite 
entire. Stems two feet high, sending out many side 
• branches. Flowers in very long loose spikes at the end of 
the branches; they are of a purple colour, and appear at the 
end of June: the seeds ripen in September.—Native of 
North America. 
10k Scutellaria Havanensis.-—Leaves cordate-ovate, crenate; 
flowers solitary, both lips of the corolla trifid. This is a 
little tender herbaceous branching plant, procumbent with 
the branches rising.—Native of the Havannah, on maritime 
rocks: flowering in December. 
11 . Scutellaria hyssopifolia, or hyssop-leaved skull-cap. 
—Leaves lanceolate. Stem erect. Upper lip of the corolla 
with a hairy keel.—Native of Virginia. 
12. Scutellaria purpurascens, or purple skull-cap —Leaves 
petioled, cordate-ovate, toothed; racemes, naked, terminat¬ 
ing ; both lips of the corolla trifid. Stems herbaceous, pros¬ 
trate, a span high, simple, obscurely four-cornered, smooth. 
—Native of the West Indies, Guadaloupe, &c. 
13. Scutellaria peregrina, or florentine skull-cap.—Leaves 
subeordate, serrate, spikes elongated, directed one way. 
Stem hairy, two feet high.—Native of Italy and Siberia. 
14. Scutellaria Indica.-—Leaves subovate, crenate, petioled; 
racemes almost naked. The plant lies on the ground and 
has the appearance of Ground Ivy ( Glecoma hederacea .)— 
Native of China, where it is called Tim-gam-sa, and 
Japan. 
15. Scutellaria altissima, or tall skull-cap.—Leaves cordate- 
oblong, acuminate, serrate, spikes almost naked. Stems 
three or four feet high, sending out a few slender branches. 
Flowers purple, with longer tubes than any of the other 
sorts.—Native of the Levant. 
16. Scutellaria Cretica.—Villose: leaves cordate, obtuse, 
and obtusely serrate; spikes imbricate; bracles setaceous.— 
Native of Crete or Candia. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are all pro¬ 
pagated by seeds which should be sown in Autumn on a 
dry warm border of poor earth, where the plants will live 
much longer, and make a better appearance than on a rich 
soil, though they seldom continue more than three years. 
When the plants come up, they will require no other care 
but to thin them, and keep them clean from weeds. 
SCUTELLUM (a little shield), sometimes used forScu- 
TELLA. 
SCUTELLUM, or Escutcheon, in Entomology, is the 
posterior part of the thorax; it is frequently triangular, and 
appears to be separated from the thorax by its intervening 
suture, as in most of the coleoptera. 
SCUTH1NON, a name given by the ancient Greeks to a 
yellow wood, called also thapsum, chrysoxylon, of a 
beautiful colour, which was used in dyeing and in colouring 
the hair yellow. 
SCU'TIFORM, adj. \scutiformis, Lat.] Shaped like a 
shield. 
SCUTIFORME OS, the chief bone of the knee, called 
also patella, molo, &c. See Anatomy. 
SCUTIFORMIS, Cartilago, one of the pieces com¬ 
posing the Larynx. See Anatomy. 
SCU'TTLE, s. [scutclla, Lat. scutell, Celt. Ainsworth 
jxuccel, Saxon.] A wide shallow basket so named from a 
dish or platter which it resembles in form—A scuttle or 
skrein to rid soil fro’ the com. Tusser .—The earth and 
stones they are fain to carry from under their feet in scuttles 
and baskets. Hakewill. —A small grate.-—To the hole in 
the door have a small scuttle, to keep in what mice are 
there. Mortimer. —An iron or copper utensil to hold coals. 
— [Escotillon , Spanish.] A hole in the deck to let down 
into the ship. Minsheu. —A quick pace; a short run; a 
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ace of affected precipitation. This is properly scuddle .— 
he went with an easy scuttle out of the shop. Spectator '. 
To SCU'TTLE, v. a. To cut holes in the deck or sides 
of a ship, when stranded or overset, and continuing to float 
on the surface. Chambers. 
To SCU'TTLE, v. n. To run with affected precipitation. 
The old fellow scuttled out of the room. Arhuthnot. 
SCYBALA, s. pi. [xKvSaXa, Gr.] Hard excrements, of 
the form of little balls. A medical term. 
SCYLACION, a word by which the ancients expressed 
the flesh of puppies, which they recommended as of great 
service in many chronic cases. 
SCYLAX, an ancient mathematician and geographer, 
was a native of Caryanda, in Caria. He is noticed by 
Herodotus as one sent by Darius to ascertain the place where 
the river Indus falls into the sea. Suidas gives a very brief 
account of Scylax, in which he has evidently confounded 
different persons of the same name. “ Scylax of Caryandas, 
a mathematician and musician, wrote a Periplus of the coast, 
beyond the pillars of Hercules, a book respecting the Hera- 
clides, a description of the circuit of the earth, and an an¬ 
swer to Polybius’s history.” The Periplus which still re¬ 
mains, bearing the name of Scylax, is a brief survey of the 
countries along the shores of the Mediterranean and Euxine 
seas, together with part of the western coast of Africa sur¬ 
veyed by Hanno. It commences with the straits of Gibraltar, 
and proceeding along the coasts of Spain and Gaul, round 
the Mediterranean, returns to the same point, and then 
briefly describes the coasts of Africa, along the Atlantic, as 
far as the island of Cerne. This, after all, is in general little 
more than an enumeration of nations, towns and distances, 
though intermixed with some occasional notices of natural 
productions, and in a few instances detailing the common 
fables of the age. It concludes with an account of the pas¬ 
sages across the sea from Greece into Asia, and an enume¬ 
ration of twenty important islands, in the order of their 
magnitudes. A question has been raised whether the 
Periplus remaining be the work of the ancient Scylax; or of 
some later writer, and critics of high rank in literature have 
taken opposite sides. The subject is discussed in the fourth 
volume of the Athenaeum, 1808, to which we refer our 
readers for the arguments on both sides of the question. 
The work has come down to us in a corrupted state; it was 
first published from a Palatine MS. by Hoeschelius and 
others in the year 1600. It was afterwards edited by Isaac 
Vossius in 1639; by Gronovius in 1697; by Hudson in 
1698. 
SCYLDWIT, a mulct or fine for any fault. 
It comes from the Saxon scilde, i. e. delictum , and i vibe, 
i. e. poena. 
SCYLITZA (John), a Greek historian, known for his 
abridgment of history from the death of Nicephorus Logo- 
thetes, in 811, to the deposition of Nicephorus Botoniates, 
in 1081. This history, from the year 1067, is the same as 
that of Cedrenus, which has caused a discussion among the 
learned, which of the two was the plagiary. Scylitza is 
thought to have been a native of Lesser Asia, and a prefect 
of the guards before he attained the dignity of curopalates. 
A Latin translation of his history entire, was published 
at Venice in 1570: and the part concerning which there is 
no dispute was printed in Greek and Latin, at Paris, in 1647. 
Moreri. 
SCYLLA, a well known promontory and current of the 
Mediterranean, in the strait of Messina, which separates Si¬ 
cily from the Neapolitan territory. It projects into the sea, 
and meets the whole force of the waters as they issue from 
the narrowest part of the strait. The action of the current 
has probably, since the days of Homer, increased the width 
of the channel: at all events, mariners are at present seldom 
afraid of being driven on the opposite rocks of Charybdis, 
where there is danger only when the wind and current are 
adverse to each other. The smaller rocks near the base of the 
promontory of Scylla add somewhat to the risk, as the noise 
of the waters in the caverns to the awfulness of the scene. 
The promontory of Scylla is about 200 feet in height. 
SCYLLJEA, 
