f& Moldavica (Tourn.) Adans. ai 
Erect herbs with coarsely toothed leaves. Flowers in dense axi ; 
clusters, the uppermost forming dense ovoid spikes. Calyx tubular, 5=lobed, 
the lobes unequal, each sims provided with a small callosity. Corolla 
narrowly funnelfom, 2-lipped, the upper lip emarginate, erect, the lower 
3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, the pair inserted beneath the upper lip 
the longest. Nutlets smooth. 
1. Me parviflora (Nutt.) Britton. Rather stiffish erect herbs 20-60 
cme tall, the stems branching above, thinly hirtellous; leaf-blades oblong@ 
lanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, obtuse, narrowed at the base to hirsute petioles 
1-3 om. long, the margins coarsely toothed, the lower surface hirtellous; 
tlewerp—tedens®> clusters i 
subtended by elliptical spinose bracts .5-1.5 cm. long; calyces 12-13 mm. 
long, hirsute, the mouth oblique, the lobes subequal to the tube, unequal, the 
uppermost ovate, the for lower lanceolate, the laterals broader than the two 
lowermost, all acuminate into short spines; corolla pale blue, the tube 8-10 
mme long, the upper lip omarginate, 2-5-5 mm. long, 5.5 mme broad, the lower 
lip 3-lobed, 3-4 mm. long, the middle lobe twice as broad as the laterals; 
stamens lying within the laterally arched upper lip, the anthers divergent; 
nutlets black, dull, 2.2 mm. long. (Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt.), 
Occasional in grassy meadows at lower elevations, Priest R, Exp. 
Stas, 2700 ftes Bungalow Re. Se, 5000 ft.; Fork St. Maries R., 3200 fte; 
Granite Cre; Headquarters. 
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