Tas. 5886. 
POGOGYNE Doveu.asn. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Lasiata.—Tribe MELISSINA. 
Genus Posoerne, Benth. ; (DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 248). 
Pogoerne Douglasii ; annua, caule erecto glabro v. puberulo superne sub- 
fastigiatim ramoso, foliis petiolatis oblongis obovatis v. spathulato- 
obovatis obtusis integerrimis v. inequaliter sinuato-dentatis utrinque 
viridibus, floralibus consimilibus, spicis oblongis, bracteis linearibus 
acutis flores equantibus v. longe superantibus pilis albis rigidis longe 
ciliatis, staminibus corolla brevioribus, dentibus calycinis inferioribus 
tubo longioribus, corolla purpurea albo-maculata. 
PoaoeyneE Douglasii, Benth. Lab. p. 414, et in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 243, 
The genus Pogogyne was established by Bentham for three 
Northern Californian plants (apparently varieties of one), 
allied to Calamint, and discovered by the late David Douglas. 
All are very aromatic, and more recommendable for this 
quality than for their beauty; for except in the sparkling 
colour of their dark-violet corollas spotted with white, they 
have little to recommend them to the horticulturist. 
The specimen here figured was raised in the Royal Gardens, 
from seeds sent by our excellent correspondent Mr. Bolander, 
of the State Survey of California, a very active botanist and 
collector, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for many 
interesting plants: it isan annual, and quite hardy. © 
Dzscr. A slender, strict, upright, aromatic annual, simple or 
fastigiately branched above, six to eighteen inches high. Stems _ 
tetra-gonous, nearly glabrous, shining. Leaves three-quar- 
ters to one and a half inches long, including the slender petiole, 
into which they are gradually narrowed, oblong or narrow-obo- 
vate or spathulate, obtuse, entire or unequally sinuate-toothed, 
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