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-SCUTELLARIA rarvoza. 
Small American. Skullcap : 
-DIDYN AMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.—Nat. Orv. LABIAT&. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx ore integro: post florescentiam clauso, operculato. | Co- 
 rolla tubus elongatus.—Pers. 3 
Scutellaria paroula; glanduloso-pubescens, foliis ovatis integerrimis ses- 
silibus conformibus, floribus axillaribus solitariis, 
S. parvula, Micu. Fl. Bor. Am. v. ii. p. 11.—Pursu, N. Am. FL Ve i. . Dp 412. 
Root, in my specimens, apparently annual, according to Pursu biennial, 
‘—_ small,.fibrous. Plant. everywhere covered with short, glandular, pu- 
_sbescence.. Stem erect, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches high, simple, or throwing 
out a few branches from its base, erect, four-sided, leafy. Leaves small, 
opposite, ovate, entire, the margins slightly recurved, the lowermost 
ones, or root leaves, shortly petiolate, the rest quite sessile, veined. 
Flowers springing singly from the axils of the uppermost leaves, opposite, 
pale purplish-blue, placed on short footstalks. Calyx subcylindrical, 
green, tinged with purple, glandular, the back of the crest however gla- 
brous, two-lipped, the ips entire: in a more advanced state, the crest 
becomes greatly enlarged, and forms a sort of helmet or lid to the top. 
Corolla glandular, with a longish tube, curved upward, and there en- 
larged, two-lipped ; the upper lip very short, 3-lobed, the two lateral 
lobes small, minutely crenate, the intermediate one notched, as if for the — 
reception of the two upper stamens; lower lip large, pendent, 3-lobed, 
the intermediate lobe the largest, all of them slightly crenate at the mar- 
gin. Stamens white. Anthers 1-celled, slightly ciliated. Germen forme 
ed of four rounded, green lobes, placed upon the top of a pedicelliform 
receptacle, which has a large, glandular, yellow swelling at the base. 
Style scarcely so long as the flower. Stzgma bifid. 
The Scutellaria parvula was first discovered by Michaux 
in the territory of the Ilinois, North America: it grows also 
in Canada, and is described in the Flora Borealis Ameri- 
cane. Mr Go.pte brought home dried specimens and seeds 
from the British settlements in Canada, and succeeded in 
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