P L A T E CCCCXCIV,
S C U T E L L A R I A S E R R A T A .
Saised-îeaved ScufeUaria.
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C L A S S XIV. O R D E R L
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSrERMIJ. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked.
E S S ENT I AL G ENE R I C C H A R A C T E R .
CALYX, OS cal)'cis, ad perfectionem semimim
post florescentiam, claudit, quasi cum opérenlo
tectum.
EMPALEMENT. T h e mouth o f the cup, to perfect
the seed after flowering, shuts as if covered
by a lid.
SCUTELLARIA foliis opposilis, ovato-acuminatis,
serratis : floribus ramos terminantibus in
spica laxa caeruleo-purpurea : caule erecto,
quadrato.
Habi tat in Carolina et Florida.
SP ECI F IC C H A R A C T E R .
SCUTELLARIA with opposite leaves ovately-pointed,
and sawed : flowers terminate Ihc
branches in a loose spike of a blue purple
colour : stem upright, and four-sided.
Nat ive of Carolina and Florida.
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R E F E R E N C E TO T H E P L A T E .
1. The empalement.
2 . Th e same as it appears after flowering.
3 . T h e flower spread open, one of the tips magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal.
THIS Scutellaria is one amongst the number of those new plants brought from America by Mr . Lyons ,
r e ty few of which have (we think) proved more attractive than the present subject. Th e fine purply
blue of its flowers is of all colours the roost difficult for aoy effort of art to do justice to. There are
seventeen species of this genus enumerated by Wi l ldenow; and fifteen of them are serrate, one hastate,
and the other (which is called integrifolia) we are inclined to think is intended to characterize
our pl ant ; as, notwithstanding it is called entire-leaved, it is described as obsoletely seri'ate, and agrees
very well in other particulars with our species. We have adopted the unoccupied' specific title of serr
j t a , although it is a character common to almost all the genus, in preference to one that could not, if
strictly attended to, ever lead us to the object. Th e genera that approach nearest to Scutellaria are Tr i -
chostema on one side, and Prunella on the other ; from which, and many others that surround it, the
most essential distinction is in the singular construction and character of the calyx, which forms its
short but well-marked essential generic character, Our figure was made from a plant in the open border
of the garden of J , Vere, esq.
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