458 JENNINGS: PLANTS FROM NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO 



Stachys palustris var. puberula Jennings, var. nov. 



Angles of the stem with stiff hairs as in 5. palustris but with the 

 minute pubescence of the sides of the stem loose and spreading and 

 often partly glandular-puberulent. 



Perennial, stoloniferous, the stems erect, simple or branched, usually 

 4-6 dm. high; leaves of the main stem lance-oblong or lance-ovate, 

 the largest in about the middle of the stem reaching a length of about 

 8-9 cm. and a width of 2-2.5 cm., crenate-dentate, acute at the apex, 

 narrowed to a rounded or obscurely subcordate base, the upper prac- 

 tically sessile, the lower and median with flat petioles from 1-4 mm. 

 long; leaves bright green above, lighter beneath, and with scattering 

 stifi" appressed hairs above' and spreading hairs at least on the veins 

 beneath; branches often numerous, sometimes arising from the axils of 

 practically every leaf up to the inflorescence about two-thirds of the 

 way up the stem; these branches slender, bearing flowers towards the 

 apex, but especially noteworthy in that the basal and median leaves 

 of these branches are often somewhat oblanceolate and narrowed 

 below to a more slender petiole; inflorescence an interrupted spike up 

 to 2-3 dm. in length having usually 5-6 flowers at each node, the foliose 

 bracts of the lower nodes far surpassing the flowers, the upper lance- 

 ovate and but little if any longer than the calyx; calyx 6-8.5 rnni. long, 

 usually densely finely puberulent and with some gland-tipped hairs in 

 addition to the coarser stiffer hairs on the nerves, practically sessile, 

 strongly nerved, the teeth usually purplish, strongly bristly and spinose- 

 tipped and about the same length as the tube and almost erect in fruit ; 

 corolla 12-16 mm. long, widely gaping, the upper side and usually 

 the medium portion of the lower lip more or less puberulent outside; 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip about twice larger and longer than the 

 lateral lobes, and considerably exceeding the upper lip; seeds dark 

 brown, obovoid, about 2 mm. long and 1.5 mm. thick, dull. 



Type in Carnegie Museum Herbarium, two sheets of specimens col- 

 lected along the marshy shore of Jarvis Lake, Hunt, Ontario, Can. 

 Gov. Ry., Aug. 19, 191 7, O. E. & G. K. Jennings, No. 15052. 



The common form of Stachys palustris in the black-ash swamps, 

 marshy borders of lakes, and other wet but apparently not boggy 

 (sphagnous) habitats in western Ontario differs considerably from the 

 typical form of the species, in which the stem is more or less completely 

 covered with a fine appressed pubescence, together with which there 

 are on the angles of the stem longer, stiff, spreading or reflexed flowers. 

 Stachys palustris var. macrocalyx Jennings, var. nov. 



Erect or decumbent, the base of the stem leafless and more or less 

 swollen, glabrous, sending up erect branches; the upper, or in the de- 

 cumbent stems, the erect portion of the stem 2-2.5 dm. long, rather 

 weak, smoothish below, above furnished with a fine loose and more or 

 less glandular puberulence mixed on the angles of the stem with sparse, 

 spreading, hispid hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate, the median 3-5.5 

 cm. long by 1-1.5 cm. wide, glabrous above, marginally ciliate and with 



