386 LABIATE. Stachys. 



or solitary in the axils of the floral leaves, forming usually an interrupted spicate 

 inflorescence; in summer. 



* Eoot annual : corolla with short tube, mostly purplish or reddish. 



( Even the lower lip hardly exceeding the subulate or aristulate tips of the calyx-teeth : leaves 

 obtuse, crenate, an inch or less long; lower subcordate and slender-petioled : upper subsessile : 

 stems a span or two high : lower flower-clusters remote. 



S. ARVENSIS, L. Hirsute, often decumbent : upper leaves ovate with cuneate base : verti- 

 cillastrate clusters in their axils few-flowered : calyx oblong-campanulate, 3 lines or more 

 long, almost hispid, in fruit declined; the lanceolate teeth aristulate. Waste grounds, 

 E. Mass. (Locally nat. from Eu.) 



S. agraria, Cham. & Schl. Hirsute pubescence finer and softer : stems slender, erect : 

 upper leaves subcordate or oval ; upper floral shorter than the small and several-flowered 

 clusters : calyx even in fruit not over 2 lines long and not declined, short-campanulate ; 

 the subulate teeth cuspidate-aristulate. Linn. v. 100; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 479. 

 S. Grahami, Benth. Lab. 551. Moist or shady places, common in Texas. (Mex.) 



4 Lips of the corolla surpassing the slender-subulate and aristulate calyx-teeth : fructiferous 

 calyx 4 lines long: stem a foot or two high. 



S. Drummondii, Benth. , Soft-hirsute : leaves ovate and oval, obtuse, crenate, all the 

 lower cordate : upper pairs distant ; floral with narrowed base, the uppermost lanceolate 

 or subulate and shorter than the flowers : these mostly in sixes : calyx-tube in fruit glob- 

 ular-campanulate and rather shorter than the setaceous-attenuate teeth : upper lip of the 

 corolla nearly 2, and lower 3 or 4 lines long. Lab. 551, & DC. 1. c. Moist ground, 

 Texas, Drummond, Wrii/ht, Llndhelmer. (Mex.) 

 S. ANNUA, L., an Old-World species, with glabrous leaves not cordate, and whitish flowers 



only four lines long, sparingly occurs as a ballast weed, near Philadelphia. 



* * Boot perennial. 



t Corolla white or whitish, with tube shorter or hardly longer than the calyx-teeth ; lips onlv 2 

 or 3 lines long; the upper villons-beanled or woolly on the back: flowers sessile or nearly so : 

 herbage from soft-hirsute to white-tomentose. (California!! and one New Mexican species.) 



S. Rothrockii, Gray. A span high, branched from the base, canescently lanate-pubes- 

 cent throughout : leaves all sessile and lanceolate, obtuse, almost entire (inch long) ; floral 

 gradually smaller and oblong, subtending about 3 flowers : spike rather dense and short : 

 calyx campanulate; the teeth ovate- or subulate-deltoid, with very acute but soft tips: 

 corolla 4 or 5 lines long; the tube included. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 82. Zuni village, 

 New Mexico, Rothrock. 



S. ajugoid.es, Benth. A span to a foot high, villous with ver}- soft white hairs: leaves 

 oblong, very obtuse, crenately serrate, 1 to 3 inches long, roundish or acutish at base ; the 

 lower petioled ; upper sessile ; even the upper floral as long as the (about 3) subtended 

 flowers : clusters mainly distant : calyx short-campanulate or in fruit turbinate, very silky- 

 villous ; the teeth triangular-ovate, aristulate-acuminate, barely equalling the tube of the 

 corolla. Linn. vi. 80, & DC. 1. c. 474 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 005. California, common in moist 

 ground. Also (in a dubious form) Willow Spring, Arizona, Rothrock. 



S. albens, Gray. Tall (1 to 5 feet high), soft-tomcntose or lanate with white or whitish 

 wool, leafy : leaves oblong or ovate, usually with more or less cordate base, acutish, cre- 

 nate, 2 or 3 inches long ; lower short-petiolecl ; upper nearly sessile ; most of the floral 

 shorter than the dense interrupted capitate clusters of the virgate spike : calyx turbinate- 

 campanulate; the teeth triangular and aristulate, nearly equalling the tube of the corolla. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. S. pycnostachya (meaning S. pycnantha, 

 Benth.), Torr. in Wilkes Exped. xvii. 408. Wet ground, mountains and foot-hills of 

 California, from Shasta to Kern Co. 



S. pycnantha, Benth. Soft-hirsute with somewhat fulvous hairs, leafy, 2 or 3 feet 

 high : leaves oblong-ovate and subcordate, obtuse, crenate, 2 to 4 inches long, mostly rather 

 long-petioled ; floral all reduced to small bracts of the dense oblong or cylindraceous spike 

 (of 1 to 3 inches long), each subtending about 3 flowers : calyx-teeth deltoid, nmcronulate, 

 very hirsute, fully equalling the tube of the corolla : upper lip of the latter strongly 

 bearded. PI. Hartweg. 331 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 005. California, in the Coast Range, 

 from Monterey to above San Francisco, Hartweg, Kelloyg. 





