Salvia. LABIATE. 367 



S. Columbarise, Benth. Soft-puberulent : stems slender, brandling and leafy below, 

 to 20 inches high, naked and pedunculiform above, terminated by solitary or two pro- 

 liferous heads : leaves deeply 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnately parted into oblong crenately 

 toothed or incised obtuse divisions, muticous, rugose : involucrate floral leaves or bracts 

 not exceeding the head, broadly ovate, entire, resembling the more membranaceous some- 

 times purplish abruptly acuminate-aristate inner bracts : flowers small : calyx naked with- 

 in ; its large upper lip arcuate-concave, hispid at base outside, tipped witli a pair of con- 

 nivent and partly connate short aristiform teeth (the third or middle tooth apparently 

 always wanting), very much surpassing the two small at length porrect teeth of the 

 lower lip : corolla blue, hardly exceeding the calyx ; its upper lip emarginate-2-lobed at 

 apex, the lower with small lateral lobes and a much larger transversely oval short- 

 unguiculate somewhat 2-lobed but otherwise entire or merely crenulate middle one: fila- 

 ments slender. Common through California, and in adjacent Arizona and Nevada. 



3. HETEROSPHACE, Benth. Throat of the calyx naked (or in a single species 

 ciliate-hirsute) ; the upper lip broadly truncate and remotely 3-toothed ; the lower 

 2-cleft: corolla elongated, mostly pilose-annulate inside; upper lip emarginate or 

 entire : stamens separate : connective shorter than the slender often exserted fila- 

 ment; the porrected lower fork also hearing a pollinit'erous anther-cell: herbs, 

 ours Atlantic-American perennials, with mostly lyrately-lohed or toothed or pin- 

 nately divided leaves ; inflorescence loosely racemose, the small bract-like floral 

 leaves persistent. 



* Corolla blue or violet, thrice the length of the calyx: leaves at most pimmtilid ; the caiiline, 

 if any, sessile or narrowed at base into wing-margined petioles. 



S. lyrata, L. Perennial from a somewhat tuberous root, pilose or hirsute: stem com- 

 monly scapiform, a foot or more high : radical leaves obovate, sinuate- or repand-dentate, or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid; cauline of one or two somewhat similar pairs, or none; floral oblong or 

 lanceolate and mostly shorter than the calyx : raceme of few or several at length dis- 

 tant about G-flowered loose clusters, rarely branching : calyx campanulatc, membranaceous ; 

 the broad and truncate upper lip with short or very short widely separated aristulate 

 teeth; lower with 2 longer lanceolate cuspidate-pointed teeth: corolla (almost an inch 

 long) ampliate-funnelform beyond the calyx ; its erect upper lip much shorter and smaller 

 than the lower. Spec. i. 23 (Dill. Kith. t. 175; Moris. Hist. c.) ; Michx. Fl. i. 14. 

 S. li/rutii & S. uborata, Ell. Sk. i. 33; Benth. in DC. 1. c. 353; the latter merely a form with 

 thin and barely dentate leaves; calyx-teeth variable in length. Sandy woodlands, New 

 Jersey to Illinois, Florida, and Texas ; flowering early. 



* * Corolla scarlet-red, four times the length of the calyx: herbage softly and often canescently 

 pubescent : cauline leaves all slender-petiolecl, at least the lower ones 3-5-foIiolate. 



S. Rcemeriana, Scheele. Stems (afoot or two high) and petioles below often sparsely 

 hirsute with long spreading hairs ; leaves or terminal leaflet roundish or reniform-cordate, 

 coarsely repand-toothed or crenately incised (an inch or two broad), membranaceous; the 

 lower usually with 2 or 3 similar but smaller (subsessilc or slender-petiolulate) lateral 

 leaflets, these occasionally reduced to dentiform appendages on the petiole: raceme loose 

 and elongated: floral leaves mostly shorter than the pedicels: calyx somewhat pubescent, 

 naked within; its upper lip 3-aristulate or with the middle tooth obsolete; the 2-parted 

 lower one of triangular-lanceolate cuspidate-acuminate teeth: corolla (an inch or more 

 long) deep scarlet, puberulent, narrowly tubular-funnelform, somewhat arcuate ; its 

 spreading lower lip with rounded and obcordate-2-cleft middle lobe, hardly longer than the 

 erect strongly emarginate upper lip ; lobes of the style more or less unequal. Scheele in 

 Linn. xxii. 5S<>; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 132. S. porphyrantha (or porphyraia), IVcaisne in 

 Rev. Hort. 1854, t. 16; Fl. Serres, t. 1080; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4!)3!>. In light fertile soil, 

 W. Texas, Wri<jht, Lhtdhcimer, e. (Adjacent Mex.) 



S. Henryi, Gray. More slender, less soft-pubescent: leaves or mostly leaflets smaller, 

 seldom cordate, angulate-lobed ; lower floral ones often similar, all as long as the pedicels : 

 calyx hirsute, ciliate-bearcled or villous in the sinuses and throat : corolla apparently nar- 

 rower and with shorter less notched lips ; the bearded ring at base within obsolete. Pror. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 368. -S. Rmnerhina, Torr. 1. c., in part. New Mexico, on the Mimbres, 



