

Menthaceae 335 
. TEUCRIUM GERMANDER 
Herbs (ours) or shrubs; stem villous (ours). Leaves dentate (ours) or entire, 
mostly rounded at base (ours). Flowers small, white or cream or rose or purple, in 
terminal bracted spikes (ours) or heads, or in whorls in the upper léaf-axils. Calyx 
campanulate, 10-veined; equally or unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short; limb ir- 
regularly 5-lobed; 2 upper lobes short, oblong; lower lobe largest. Stamens 4, exserted; 
front pair longer. Nutlets obovoid, rugose-reticulate. (Honor of Teucer, a King of 
Troy, who first used it medicinally.) E. (TJ. occidentalis viscidum.) 
T. occidentale Gray 
TRICHOSTEMA BLUE CURLS 
Herbs or somewhat shrubby, annual (ours) or perennial, branching. Leaves entire 
or slightly wavy. Flowers not large, blue (ours), in panicles or cymes; clusters axillary. 
Calyx campanulate, very unequally to almost equally 5-lobed. Corolla-tube narrow; 
limb somewhat oblique; lobes somewhat similar, oblong. Stamens 4, long-exserted. (Gk. 
trichos=hair, stema—=stamen; the stamens are long and hair-like.) 
A. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx. W. E. 
T. oblongum Benth. 
AA. Calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, acute; corolla-tube exceeding the calyx. 
B. Leaves acuminate, obscurely veined; corolla 6—8 mm. long. U. 
T. laxum Gray 
BB. Leaves acute, strongly veined; corolla about 12 mm. long. W. 
T. lanceolatum Benth. (Vinegar-weed) 
SCUTELLARIA SKULL-CAP 
Herbs (ours) or shrubs, annual or perennial, bitter. Leaves in ours linear to ovate 
or obovate, entire or somewhat serrate or dentate. Flowers blue or violet or whitish, in 
racemes or |—3 in each leaf-axil; racemes spike-like, axillary or also terminal, bracted, 
mostly secund. Calyx campanulate, 2-lipped; lips entire; upper lip with appendage on 
back and often deciduous in fruit; lower lip persistent. Corolla much exserted, dilated 
above, glabrous inside, 2-lipped; upper lip arched, entire or emarginate; lower lip spreading 
or deflexed; lateral lobes of lower lip small, middle lobe wide. Stamens 4, all with 
anthers. (L. scutella—a dish; referring to the appendages of the calyx in fruit.) 
A. Leaves or at least the lower ones somewhat serrate or dentate. 
B. Leaf-blades widest below their middle. . 
C. Flowers in axillary and sometimes also terminal racemes; corolla 6—10 mm. 
long. W. E. S. lateriflora L. (Mad-dog Skull-cap) 
CC. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils; corolla 14—-30 mm. long. 
D. Plant .5—1.3 dm. high; leaves obtuse, 6—12 mm. long. U. 
S. tuberosa Benth. 
DD. Plant 2—9 dm. high; leaves acute, 10-37 mm. long. E. 
S. galericulata L. (Marsh Skull-cap) 
BB. Leaf-blades widest above their middle; flowers solitary in the leaf-axils. E. 
S. nana Gray 
AA. Leaves entire. 
E. Stem leaves from oblong or lanceolate to obovate, obtuse at both ends; corolla 
14—20 mm. long. W.E. (S. veronicifolia.) 
S. antirrhinoides Benth. 
