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Heller : Plants from Western North America 589 



is deposited in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Gardeh. 

 The southwestern representativ^e of K stricta. It is less pubes- 

 cent than that species, has a narrower leaf, the lowering spike is 

 less compact in age, the flower is smaller and lighter colored, and 

 the bracts are much longer. It also occurs near Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico, growing in meadows along Santa Fe creek. 



Stachys pubens (A. Gray) Heller, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 25 : 



582. 1898 



Stachys ciliata var. puhcns A. Gray Syn. Fl. N. A. 2^ : 388. 



i8;8. 



Stachys paliistrh Linn. var. Torr., U. S. Explor. Exped. 17 : 



408. 



This is a species quite distinct from 5*. ciliata^ and apparently 

 not well understood. The type was collected by Dr. Holmes 

 on the Fraser river. Like most specimens from the older collec- 

 tors, it is imperfect, showing only the upper half or third of what 

 was evidently a tall, stout plant. The prominent angles are cov- 

 ered with retrorse, prickle-like hairs, the leaves are thick, densely 

 pubescent with soft-pilose hairs, and have short stout petioles. 

 The calyx is very hirsute, its lobes ending in a long spine-like 

 tip. The flowers are more slender, and a trifle smaller than those 

 of S, ciliata, . ^ 



In the herbarium of Columbia University is a second sheet, 

 also referred by Torrey to '* Stachys paliistris Linn, var." The 

 label bears the legend '* Gray's Harbor & S. to California.'' On 



the sheet are two plants, one of which is undoubtedly S, ciliata^ 

 and I take it to be the plant collected at '* Gray's Harbor," for 

 S. ciliata is abundant thereabouts. The other one probably goes' 

 with the " & S. to California." It is close to 5'. pubens^ and may 

 be the plant Gray had in mind when he mentioned S. Rideri in 

 connection with his S. ciliata var. pubens. 

 Stachys ciliata Dough; Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 539. 1834 



Wash 



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pube 



f^, under which name it was distributed. These specimens 

 seem to be pretty typical, although a little more pubescent than 

 typical material in the herbarium of Columbia L"^niversity. This 



