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6. Salvia spathacea Greene. Pitcher Sage. Fig. 4408. 



Audibertia grandiflora Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 312. 1833. 

 Salvia spathacea Greene, Pittonia 2: 236. 1892. 

 Audibcrticlla gra)\diflora Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 

 Ratnona grandiflora Briq. op. cit. 440. 



Perennial herb with usually stout somewhat woody root, producing generally only one stout 

 erect herbaceous stem, 2)-7 dm. high, simple or rarely with 2-3 branches above, glandular-villous 

 and viscid. Leaves 7-20 cm. long, commonly numerous at base and scattered along the stem to 

 the inflorescence, broadly to rather narrowly lanceolate or sometimes oblong, the lower hastate 

 and rather long-petioled, the upper subsessile and truncate, irregularly crenate, more or less 

 densely white-villous beneath, thinly villous-pubescent and rugose above; verticils large, usually 

 3-6, forming an interrupted terminal spike 15-30 cm. long; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 entire, 1.5^ cm. long, often tinged with reddish purple; calyx 1.5-2 cm. long, its upper lip 

 concave and spathe-like ; corolla about 3 cm. long, purplish red ; upper lip 4-5 mm. long ; lower 

 lip reflexed, its middle lobe broadly obcordate ; stamens well-exserted ; lower arm of the anther- 

 connective prolonged below the articulations, about half the length of the upper arm, sometimes 

 bearing a rudimentary but sterile anther-cell at the apex. 



Usually in rich soils on grassy or shaded slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; California Coast Ranges from the 

 Vaca Mountains and Mount Diablo, central California, south especially near the coast to Orange County. Type 

 locality: California. Collected by Douglas. Crimson Sage. March-May. 



7. Salvia sonomensis Greene. Creeping Sage. Fig. 4409. 



Audibertia humilis Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 313. 1833. Not Salvia humilis Benth. 

 Salvia sonomensis Greene, Pittonia 2: 236. 1892. 

 Ramona humilis Greene, Erythea 1: 144. 1893. 

 Audibertiella humilis Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 



Mat-like plants with creeping woody stems, the seasonal flowering stems scape-like, 1-3 dm. 

 high, with 1 or 2 remote pairs of reduced leaves, pubescent with short recurved hairs. Basal 

 leaves numerous, more or less densely cinereous-puberulent on both surfaces and finely rugose, 

 oblong to oblanceolate, crenulate, the blades 3-5 cm. long, rounded at apex, narrowed below to 

 an elongated petiole often equaling or exceeding the blade ; verticils densely flowered, mostly 

 5-8, becoming remote in age; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 mm. long; calyx about 8 mm. long, 

 the teeth of the upper lip barely over 1 mm. long; corolla bluish violet, about 15 mm. long; 

 upper lip short ; middle lobe of lower lip orbicular, reflexed, 7-8 mm. long, denticulate, the 

 lateral lobes minute or obsolete. 



Dry rocky ridges or slopes, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Siskiyou County south to Mariposa and 

 Monterey Counties, and reappearing in the Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California. Type locality: 

 "Hab. in California septentrionale Douglas." April-June. 



8. Salvia Dorrii (Kell.) Abrams. Gray Ball Sage. Fig. 4410. 



Audibertia Dorrii Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 190. fig. 57. 1863. 



Audibertia incana var. pilosa A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^: 461. 1886. 



Salvia pilosa Alerriam, N. Amer. Fauna 7^: 322. 1893. 



Audibertiella Dorrii Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 



Ramona Dorrii Briq. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 43» : 287. 1897. 



Ramona pilosa Abrams, Bull. N.Y. Bot. Card. 6: 443. 1910. 



Salvia carnosa var. pilosa Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 870. 1925. 



Low much-branched shrub 3-8 dm. high and often as broad, the leaf-bearing branches erect, 

 densely scurfy-canescent and punctate-glandular. Leaves obovate or spatulate, rounded at apex, 

 more or less abruptly narrowed at base, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, scurfy-canescent and glandular-punc- 

 tate ; flower-verticils mostly 3-4, 1-2 cm. distant but in age often appearing contiguous ; bracts 

 oblong-elliptic to suborbicular, 7-10 mm. long, green or commonly tinged with rose-purple, thinly 

 strigose with upwardly appressed sharp-pointed hairs or often pilose with spreading and more 

 or less wavy hairs, conspicuously ciliate on the margins, the cilia longer in the forms with pilose 

 pubescence; calyx about 5 mm. long, lower lip deeply divided into 2 ovate teeth, upper lip entire, 

 nearly truncate to rounded at apex ; corolla blue, about 10 mm. long, upper lip erect, 2-cleft, 

 lower lip 3-lobed with the middle lobe erose and longer than the lateral ; stamens long-exserted, 

 the upper pair short and sterile. 



Dry ridges, mainly Upper Sonoran Zone; on the inland and desert slopes of the mountains, southeastern 

 Oregon and northeastern California to Riverside County, California, and western Nevada. Type locality: western 

 Nevada, probably in the vicinity of Virginia City. May-July. 



Salvia Dorrii subsp. carnosa (Dougl.) Abrams. (Salvia carnosa Benth. Bot. Reg. 17: under pi. 1469, as 

 a synonym. 1832; Audibertia incana Benth. loc. cit. Not Salvia incana Mart. & Gal. 1844.) Leaves oval to 

 oblong, tapering to and longer than the petioles, scurfy-canescent; bracts glabrate or minutely puberulent. Mostly 

 rocky or gravelly soil. Upper Sonoran Zone; eastern Washington and eastern Oregon to Idaho. Type locality: 

 "Mr. Douglas found it on the plains of the Colombia, near the Priest's Rapid, and on clayey hills near the Big 

 Birch, in 1826." 



Salvia Dorrii subsp. Gilminii (Epling) Abrams. (Salvia carnosa subsp. Gilmanii Epling, Ann. Mo. Bot. 

 Card. 25: 132. 1938.) Leaves very scurfy-hoary, including the petioles 10-15 mm. long, the blades rounded or 

 broadly spatulate, abruptly narrowed to the petiole; verticils seldom over 15 mm. in diameter: bracts short- 

 ciliate on the margins and thinly strigose .on the back; corolla-tube little-exserted beyond the bracts. Desert 

 mountain slopes and benches, mainly Upper Sonoran Zone; eastern Mojave Desert, especially in the Death 

 Valley region, California. Type locality: Piiion Mesa, Wild Rose Canyon, Panamint Mountains. 



