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2. T. lanceolatum Beuth, Vinegar Weed. Stem simple or branch¬ 
ing from the base; leaves lanceolate, sessile or nearly so; flower-clusters 
short-peduncled or nearly sessile.—Dry plains and hills. It is abundant 
over the interior foothills and is, in summer, an important bee plant. 
3. T. laxum Gray. Blue Curls. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceo¬ 
late, petioled; flower-clusters rather loose.—Stream beds or low fields. 
2. SCUTELLARIA L. Skull-cap 
Perennial herbs. Flowers solitary in the axils of the opposite leaves or 
the upper leaves reduced and the inflorescence spike-like. Calyx 2 lipped, 
both lips entire, the upper with a scale-like or crest-like- projection on 
the back. Corolla strongly 2-lipped with narrow upper lip, its tube long- 
exserted. (Latin scutella, a dish, on account of the conspicuous pro- 
truberance on the fruiting calyx.) 
1. S. tuberosa Benth. Blue Skull-cap. Stems 7.2 to 12 cm. high, 
from tuber-bearing rootstocks; leaves ovate or oval, petioled; corolla 
blue, 14 to 18 mm. long.—Shady woods or sandy valleys. 
2. S californica Gray. Stems clustered, commonly simple, 2 to 3.6 
dm. high, the rootstocks not tuberous; leaves oval to lanceolate, crenate 
or entire, those subtending the flowers much reduced; corolla whitish or 
yellowish, 1.6 to 2.4 cm. long, the throat inflated.—Borders of thickets 
or woods. 
3. MARRUBIUM L. 
Perennial white-woolly herbs with wrinkled leaves and white flowers 
in whorls. Calyx cylindric, 10-ribbed and 10-toothed, the spine-like 
teeth recurved at tip. Corolla-tube included in calyx, the upper lip erect 
and 2-cleft, the lower spreading and 3-cleft. (From the Hebrew, mean¬ 
ing bitter.) 
1. M. vulgare L. Common Horehound. Stems tufted, 2 to 5.7 dm. 
high; leaves roundish, crenate, petioled.—Nat. from Eur., denizen of 
waste places. An infusion of the herbage is used as a domestic remedy 
for colds and coughs. 
4. BRUNELLA L. 
Perennial herbs, the nearly simple stems terminated by a few whorls 
of flowers in a short spike ; each whorl composed of 6 sub-sessile flowers 
and subtended by broad floral bracts. Calyx thin, veiny, 2-lipped; upper 
lip truncate with 3 minute hard teeth; lower lip 2-cleft; lips closed in 
fruit. Upper lip of corolla erect, elongated, entire, the lower 3-lobed 
with the middle lobe hanging downward. Stamens with each filament 
(or those of the upper stamens) with a small tooth below the anther. 
(Old German breune or braune, an affection of the throat, which self- 
heal was used to cure.) 
1. B. vulgaris L. Self-Heal. Green and nearly glabrous, 9.6 to 24 
cm. high; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obscurely serrate, petioled; 
corolla, blue, pinkish or rarely white, exceeding the purplish calyx.— 
Woods near the coast and at middle altitudes in the mountains. 
5. STACHYS L. Hedge Nettle 
Hispid or soft-hairy herbs with the flowers few in the axils of the 
upper reduced leaves, thus forming an interrupted spike-like inflores- 
