112 University of California Puhlicafions . [botany 



lJ-3 ft. high, minutely puberuleut : leaves obovate to spatulate, 

 2 in. long including the petiole: inflorescence compact, the 

 verticels usually approximate; bracits highly colored, often nearly 

 an inch in length, broadly oblong, very ol)tuse and frequently 

 cuspidate: flowers short-pediceled, sometimes over an inch long 

 and well exserted from the bracts: middle lobe of lower lip of 

 corolla enlarged and 2-parted, lateral lobes broad, obtuse; upper 

 lip of two short oblong lobes; all the lobes fimbriate margined: 

 lower stamens carried iip to mouth of corolla-tube from which 

 they continue to ascend while the lower lip turns off at right 

 angles, lower branch of connective lacking; upper stamens 

 reduced to mere needle-shaped scales, barely exserted. 



A series of twenty-five numbers of 8. carnosa and its varieties 

 from Southern California exhibit all degrees of variation and 

 furnish conclusive evidence that the variety compacia is not deserv- 

 ing of specific rank. The specimens described above are 

 remarkable for their long corollas, but in others from Tahquitz 

 Valley and from the San Bernardino Mts., the corolla is only 

 slightly exserted and in some cases it is shorter than the bracts. 

 On San Jacinto Mt. Salvia carnosa compacia is not rare 

 beneath pines in the lower part of Tahquitz Valley, reaching an 

 altitude of 8500 ft. on the ridges near Tahquitz Peak and Lake 

 Surprise, while it ranges at least as low as 4500 ft. alt. in the 

 chaparral belt of the east side. 



This variety has been transferred to a species of Salvia for the 

 following reasons: The name Audibertia was first given by 

 Bentham* in 1829 to a genus of Labiatte which he afterward con- 

 sidered as a mere section of Mentha. But desiring to preserve 

 Audibert's name in botanical literature he in 1831 applied it to 

 the group of plants to which the one here considered belongs, 

 describing Andibertia incana as the fii'st species, t Some botanists, 

 however, still consider the section of Mentha (^Audibertia 

 Benth., 1829) to be of generic rank, and designate it by its 

 original name, that is, Audibertia. It would, therefore, be advis- 

 able to adopt some other name for the group of plants now under 



* Edwards Bot. Reg. subt. 1282 (1829) 

 tl. c. t. 1469 (1831). 



