Scutellaria lateriflora. 7 9
from three quarters of an inch to an inch and three quarters
breadth, ovate-lanceolate, and cordate or semi-cordate at base;
dentated, and somewhat wrinkled. Branch-leaves smaller; ovate-
lanceolate, ovate, and often quite lanceolate, and dentate-serrate.
All the leaves are of a pale or celandine-green beneath, and of a
grass-green hue above, occasionally tinged on their upper disk,
with reddish-purple. Racemes long, leafy, proceeding laterally
from the stem—hence the specific name of the plant. The floral
leaves are attached by pairs to each pair of flowers, and diminish
gradually in size as they approach the apex of the racemes. They
are ovate, acute, sub-sessile, or situated on very short petioles.
Each floral leaf of the pair, is attached by a common origin to the
peduncle of the calix as represented in fig. 2. of the plate. Flowers
small, numerous, arranged in pairs along the racemes. Peduncles
an eighth of an inch long. Calix scutellate as in the whole genus. Corolla
monopetalous, tubular, from a quarter to three-eighths of an inch
long, and one-eighth of an inch or little more, in diameter; campanula
purple, occasionally lighter or nearly bluish-white beneath. Seeds
numerous, small, oval, verrucose, yellowish. Though the flowers
of this plant are generally borne on racemes, they are sometimes
arranged in pairs from the axills of the leaves, on the branches.
In this case, the floriferous ramuli must be considered as racemous
branches. The large size of the leaves belongs to plants which
have grown in the shade, and, thus situated, they become very thin
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