aC Meuarda L. Horsemint. 
Perennial herbs with several or mmerous erect stems from creeping 
rootstocks; leaves subentire. Flowers in terminal showy capitate glomer- 
ules subtended by subfoliar spreading bracts. Calyx tubular, shortly 5© 
toothed, the teeth subulate. The corolla rose-purple, trumpet-shaped, strongly 
2-lipped, the upper lip entire, narrowly triangular, the lower 3-lobed. 
Stamens 2. WNutlets smooth. 
menthaefolia Grah. ; 
le Me * Stems 50-70 cm. tall, 
branching, purplish, pubescent above; leaf=blades ovate to oblong-lanceolate 
5-5 om. long, shortly acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, the : 
margins sebenbtre» remotely and shallowly denticulate » both surfaces softly 
pubescent with short curling hairs, petioles 3-12 mm. long; glomerules 
hemispheric, 5-6 cm. broad in full flower, the bracts subfoliar, 1-2 om. 
long; calyces 8-11 mm. long, puberulent and sprinkled with sessile glands, the 
orifice hirsute, the teeth subslete>scarcely 1 mm. long; corolla seft—rose=> 
—purplep pubescent, 3-3.5 om. long, the upper lip 8-13 mn. long, acute, the 
lower oblong, subequal or somewhat longer, 3-lobed at the tip; stamens 
ascendant under the galea; mtlets smooth, 1.6 mm. long. 
In rocky places near Moyie Springs, Epling 10421; Hope, Epling; 
Bonners Ferry, Christ 827.6 Bhar D tor ba audey wdre-dareh Per CUA ad nae 
Grro dine werden dhm | aad &% 4 laa ‘ of LS 
