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Jo, Agastache Clayton. Wild Hyssop. 
Tall perennial herbs with rootstocks and coarsely toothed, leaves. ee 
Flowers in dense terminal cylindrical spikes. Calyx tubular, subequally 5 1 ie. 
toothed. Corolla tubular, the upper lip erect, emarginate, the lower lip ' 
S-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, the longer pair inserted below the upper lip, 
both pairs unequally exserted. Nutlets smooth. 
1. Ae urticifolia (Benth.) Rydb. Stems several from a woody crow, ; 
branching above, puberulent or glabrous; leaves broadly triangular-ovate, the 
blades 25-5 om. long, mostly obtuse, broadly cordate or truncate at the base, 
the margins coarsely dentate, both surfaces glabrous, the principal veins 
arising from near the base; frowers—iadenss—cylindricaD|sonewhat. tapered pike a 
4-16 cm. long, 2-5-4 cm. broad; calyces sessile, 10-11 mm. long, membrandlis, the 
teeth sxbequetp 5-6 mm. long, lanceolate, very acute, subscari » white or 
tinged with rose; corolla rose, violet or white, tubular, the-tube 13-15 mn. 
long, the upper lip preety 1.5 mm. long, emaxgiuatay the middle lobe of the 
lower lip deflexed, 2.5 mm. wide, the laterals very short; : 
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G&ampey mutlets 1.7 mm. long, smooth. 
Frequent along roadweys at low elevations or extending as high as 
6000 ft, on brushy moist subalpine slopes, 
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