Habitat in Carolina et Florida.
Scutellaria with opposite leaves ovately-pointed, and sawed: flowers terminate the branches in a loose spike of a blue purple colour: stem upright, and four-sided.
Native of Carolina and Florida.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The same as it appears after flowering.
3. The 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, very few of which have (we think) proved more attractive than the present subject. The fine purply blue of its flowers is of all colours the most difficult for any effort of art to do justice to. There are seventeen species of this genus enumerated by Willdenow; 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 plant; as, notwithstanding it is called entire-leaved, it is described as obsoletely serrate, and agrees very well in other particulars with our species. We have adopted the unoccupied specific title of serrata, 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. The genera that approach nearest to Scutellaria are Trichostema 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.[Pg 5]
[Pg 6]
PLATE CCCCXCV.
PROTEA CORYMBOSA.