. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. ments; anther-cells divergent and at length confluent. — Low annuals, some- what clammy-glandular and balsamic, branched, with entire leaves, and mostly solitary 1-flowered pedicels terminating the branches, becoming lateral by the production of axillary branch- lets, and the flower appearing to be reversed, namely, the short teeth of the calyx upward, etc. Corolla blue, varying to pink, rarely white, small; fl. in summer and autumn. (Name compo
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. ments; anther-cells divergent and at length confluent. — Low annuals, some- what clammy-glandular and balsamic, branched, with entire leaves, and mostly solitary 1-flowered pedicels terminating the branches, becoming lateral by the production of axillary branch- lets, and the flower appearing to be reversed, namely, the short teeth of the calyx upward, etc. Corolla blue, varying to pink, rarely white, small; fl. in summer and autumn. (Name composed of $pl^, hair, and arrj/Ma, stamen, from the capillary filaments.) 1. T. dich6tomum L. (Bastard Penntrotal.) Viscid with rather minute pubescence; leaves lance- oblong or rhombic-lanceolate, rarely lanoe-linear,'short- petioled ; lower lobe of the corolla oblong, longer than the remaining broader ones. — Sandy fields, Me. and Vt. to Ky., Mo., and Tex. Fig. 886. 2. T. linekre Walt. Puberulent, more slender and less forked; leaves linear, nearly smooth. — In sandy 880. T. dlchotomum x %. ground near the coast, Ct. to La. 8. SCUTELLARIA L. Skullcap Calyx bell-shaped in flower, splitting to the base at maturity, the lips entire, the upper usually falling away. Corolla with an elongated curved ascending tube, dilated at the throat; the upper lip entire or barely notched, the lateral lobes mostly connected with the upper rather than the lower lip ; the lower lobe or lip spreading and convex, notched at the apex. Stamens ascending under the upper lip; anthers approximate in pairs, ciliate or bearded, those of the lower stamens 1-celled (halved), of the upper 2-celled and heart-shaped. — Bitter perennial herbs, not aromatic, the short peduncles or pedicels chiefly opposite, 1-flowered, often 1-sided, axillary or spiked or raoemed ; fl. in summer. (Name from scutella, a dish, in allusion to the appendage of the fruiting calyx.) § 1. Nutlets wingless, mostly marginless, on a
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