748 LAMIACEAE 



18. SALVIA (Tourn.) L. SAGE. 



Annual or perennial herbs (ours), or rarely shrubby plants. Leaves opposite, 

 sometimes mostly basal, entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers perfect, in axillary 

 clusters, disposed in spikes, racemes, or panicles. Calyx 2-lipped; upper lip 

 3-toothed; lower lip with 2 longer and narrower lobes. Corolla strongly 2-lipped, 

 upper lip arched; lower lip longer, spreading, with 3 lobes. Stamens 4, but only 

 2 anther-bearing, or sometimes only 2; lower branch of the connective deflexed, 

 destitute of an anther-cell. Nutlets smooth. 



Corolla 15-30 mm. long; tube exserted. 1. S. Pitcheri. 



Corolla 8-12 mm. long; tube included in the calyx. 2. S. lanceolata. 



1. S. Pitcheri Torr. Stem 4-12 dm. high, finely retrorsely strigose; leaves 

 short-petioled, linear-lanceolate or linear, 3-12 cm. long, toothed or entire, strigil- 

 lose; calyx densely canescent, 6-8 mm. long; upper lip barely pointed; corolla 

 blue or white; upper lip densely bearded on the back. Dry plains and prairies: 

 Neb. Mo. Tex. Colo. Plain. Jl-S. 



2. S. lanceolata Willd. Perennial; stem puberulent, erect, branched, 1-4 

 dm. high; leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate to oblong or linear, 2-8 cm. long, re- 

 motely serrate or undulate or entire, puberulent or glabrate; calyx 7-8 mm. long, 

 puberulent; upper lip abruptly pointed; corolla purplish; upper lip minutely 

 puberulent. Prairies, plains, and hillsides: S.D. Tex. N.M. Mont.; Mex. 

 Plain Submont. My-S. 



19. AUDIBERTELLA Briq. BALL SAGE. 



Perennial, mostly sufTruticose herbs, usually more or less canescent. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, crenate or crenulate. Flowers perfect, in bracteate 

 axillary verticils. Calyx 2-lipped, deeply cleft in front, sometimes oblique. 

 Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip spreading, 2-lobed or emarginate; lower lip spreading, 

 3-lobed. Fertile stamens 2; filaments slender, either simple or articulate above, 

 but bearing a single anther-cell. Nutlets smooth. [Audibertia Benth.] 



Leaf-blades oblong-spatulate; lower lip of the corolla much longer than the upper. 



1. A. incana. 



Leaf-blades rounded obovate-spatulate; lower lip of the corolla slightly longer than the 

 upper. 2. A. argentea. 



1. A. incana (Benth.) Briq. Branches grayish puberulent; leaves short- 

 petioled, 2-4 cm. long; blades oblong-spatulate, scurfy-canescent, obtuse, entire; 

 bracts obovate or oval, canescent and ciliate, about 1 cm. long; corolla about 15 

 mm. long. Audibertia incana Benth. Hillsides: Wash. Ida. Ore. Sub- 

 mont. 



2. A. argentea Rydb. Branches cinereous-puberulent; leaves petioled, 1-2 

 cm. long; blades rounded, obovate-spatulate, scurfy-cinereous, at first silvery 

 white; bracts broadly obovate, membranous, strongly veined, puberulent and 

 ciliate; corolla blue, about 1 cm. long. Dry hills: Utah Ariz. Calif. Nev. 

 Son. Ap-Je. 



20. MONARDA L. HORSE MINT, WILD BERGAMOT, LEMON MINT. 



Perennial or annual, caulescent herbs. Leaves opposite, petioled, with 

 broad usually toothed blades. Flowers perfect, in dense, remote or contiguous, 

 axillary clusters. Calyx tubular or nearly so, mostly pubescent in the throat, 

 15-ribbed, nearly regularly 5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped; throat dilated; upper lip 

 narrow, erect or arched, entire or notched; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe much the larger. Anther-bearing stamens 2, and with 2 or no rudimentary 

 filaments; anthers narrow, 2-celled, versatile; sacs divergent. Nutlets smooth. 



Heads solitary at the ends of the stem and branches; stamens conspicuously exceeding 



the acute upper Lip of the corolla. 



Petioles and stem more or less hirsute- villqus, the latter especially so under the nodes . 

 Leavas sparingly pilose; stem and petioles hirsute-ciliate. 1. M. comata. 



Leaves softly pubescent, especially below; stem, petioles, and the veins of the 



leaves lanate. 2. M. Ramaleyi. 



Whole plant finely strigose or puberulent. 

 Petioles seldom over 5 mm. long. 



