372 LABIATE. Salvia. 



S. SCLAREA, L. (CLARY.) Biennial, villous-pubescent, viscid: stem stout, 2 or 3 feet high : 

 leaves ample, long-petioled, ovate and cordate, crenate, rugose; floral forming bracts of 

 the cylindrical or interrupted spike, ovate, acuminate, tinged with white and rose-color: 

 calyx campanulatc ; teeth spinulose-acuminate : corolla white and bluish, rather large, 

 widely ringent ; its short tube included; long upper lip falcate and compressed. Penn- 

 sylvania, escaped from gardens. (Nat. from Eu.) 



S. VERBEXACEA, L., Muhl. Perennial, pubescent or villous, a foot or two high : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, often cordate at base, obtuse, mostly sinuate-incised or moderately pinnatifid 

 and the lobes crenatc-toothed, rugose, almost glabrous ; the few cauline mostly sessile ; 

 the floral inconspicuous, rounded-ovate : raceme interrupted : calyx reflexed after flower- 

 ing ; its broad and rounded upper lip recurved-spreading, with 3 minute connivent teeth ; 

 the lower of 2 longer triangular-subulate and cuspidate teeth, equalling the throat of the 

 small bluish corolla, the upper lip of which is nearly straight. S. Ckiijtoni, Ell., excl. 

 reference to Clayton, whose plant is S. It/ruin? Dry sandy pastures around Beaufort, 

 S. Carolina, Elliott. Sparingly seen in the Middle States. (Nat. from Eu.) 



29. AUDIBERTIA, Benth. (M. Audibert of Tarascon, Provence.) 

 W. North American (all California!!, one species of wider range), fruticose or 

 perennial-herbaceous, mostly canescent-tomentose ; with crenate or crenulate and 

 reticulated leaves, and flowers resembling those of Salvia of the S. officinalis 

 type : fl. spring and summer. (Noted bee-plants in S. California.) 



1. Inflorescence densely verticillastrate-glomerate and interrupted-spicate, 



much bracteate : corolla with tube longer than the limb. 



* Large-flowered: corolla fully inch and a half long, crimson-purple; upper lip rather erect and 

 short, emargiiiate: lower leaves cordate or hastate at base. 



A. grandiflora, Benth. Stem villous and glandular, stout, suffrutescent, 2 or 3 feet 

 high: leaves very rugose, tomentose beneath, sinuate-crenate ; lower mostly hastate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 to 8 inches long, on margined petioles; upper oblong and sessile; floral 

 and bracts of the large heads broadly ovate, membranaceous: calyx spathaceous, deeply 

 cleft between the two small anterior cuspidate-tipped teeth ; ample concave upper lip 

 3-denticulate : stamens much exserted : a conspicuous slender tooth representing the lower 

 fork of the connective. Lab. 312, & DC. Prodr. xii. 350; Torr. Bot. ilex. Bound, t. 38 

 (sterile filaments wrongly represented) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. GOO. California Coast Ranges, 

 &c.. from San Mateo Co. southward. 



* * Smaller-flowered: corolla less than an inch long, violet or bluish: leaves not cordate. 

 H Bracts, upper floral leaves, and bilabiate calyx scarious-membranaceous, reticulated, usually 



colored, obtuse and nuitieous (or at most mucroiiatc); the former large and roundish, half inch or 



more long, imbricating the close heads: corolla only half inch long, narrow, and with short liinh: 



low Ktiffruticose species of the interior arid region. 



A. incana, Benth. 1. c. Closely tomcntose-canescent, leafy : leaves spatulate or obovate, 

 obtuse or retuse, not rugose, entire (or sparsely crenulate), seldom inch long: bracts 

 obovate or oval, pubescent and ciliate, purple-tinged : calyx turbinate ; anterior teeth 

 ovate or oblong, rather shorter than the truncate and emargiiiate very broad upper lip : 

 stamens much exserted: connective with or without a dentiform appendage. Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 14GO; Gray, I.e. From interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho south to Arizona, 

 and along the eastern borders of California. 



A. capitata, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent : leaves oblong, acutish, very rugose, crenu- 

 late, slender-petioled : bracts of solitary head ovate or oval, apparently whitish : flowers, 

 &c., of the preceding. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Providence Moun- 

 tains, San Bernardino Co., S. E. California, Cooper. 



4 -) Bracts more or less herbaceous, at least not colored: leaves minutely rugose, crenulate: 

 species restricted to California. 



n- Corolla barely half inch long: all the calyx-teeth and bracts subulate or aristate-tipped. 



A. humilis, Benth. 1. c. Stems simple and only a span high from a thickened suffruti- 

 cosc base, almost leafless and scapiform : leaves crowded at the base, lanceolate or spatu- 

 late-oblong, very obtuse, finely rugose, densely crenulate, canescent, an inch or more long, 



