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9. Salvia pachyphylla Epling. Thick-leaved or Rose Sage. Fig. 4411. 



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



Audtbertia pachystachya Parish, Erythea 6: 91. 1898. Not Salvia pachystachya Trautv. 



Kamona pachystachya Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 4. 1900. 



Salvia carnosa var. compacta Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 1: 111. 1902. 



Salvia compacta Munz, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 26: 22. 1927. Not Salvia compacta Kuntze. 



Salvici pachyphylla Epling ex Munz, Man. S. Calif. 445, 600. 1935. 



Low compact shrub, woody at base, 3-5 dm. high, the branches ascending or spreading, decum- 

 bent, minutely scurfy-canescent. Leaves mostly 2-3 cm. long, obovate to oblanceolate, rounded 

 at apex, narrowed below to a short (5-15 mm.) petiole, entire, scurfy-puberulent and hoary on 

 both surfaces, glandular-dotted; whorls of the inflorescence approximate, forming a continuous 

 or slightly interrupted spike 4-10 cm. long, and 3-4 cm. broad, bracts showy, purple, oblong to 

 obovate, 15-25 mm. long, usually rounded at apex, ciliate on the margins, otherwise glabrous or 

 minutely puberulent ; calyx about 12 mm. long; upper lip entire, truncate, the lower of 2 acute, 

 deltoid teeth; corolla violet-blue, the tube 15-20 mm. long; lobes of the upper lip 4-6 mm. long, 

 united to the middle; lower lip 6-8 mm. long, the middle lobe emarginate and erose; stamens 

 well-exserted, the connective as long as the filament, its lower end completely suppressed below 

 the articulation. 



Rocky or gravelly slopes. Arid Transition Zone; San Bernardino Mountains, southern California, to San 

 Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, and in the following desert ranges of southern California: Panamint, 

 Santa Rosa, Clark, and New York. Type locality; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, California. 

 July-Sept. 



10. Salvia mellifera Greene. Black Sage. Fig. 4412. 



Audibertia stachyoides Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 313. 1833. Not Salvia stachyoides Kunth. 



Salvia mellifera Greene, Pittonia 2: 236. 1892. 



Audiberticlla stachyoides Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 



Ramona stachyoides Briq. op. cit. 440. 



Shrub, branching and leafy, 1-2.5 m. high, cinereous-tomentose or glabrate, and somewhat 

 glandular. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, acutish to rounded at apex, narrow at base 

 to a short petiole or subsessile, crenulate, rugose and green above, cinereous-tomentulose beneath ; 

 flowers in dense capitate rather distant whorls forming an interrupted spike; bracts ovate to 

 oblong, cuspidate, 5-10 mm. long, green or tinged with purple; calyx 6-8 mm. long, upper lip 

 tricuspidate, the 3 bristles indicating the tips of the completely united teeth, lower lip composed 

 of 2 distinct spinulose-tipped teeth; corolla pale bluish-lavender, about 12 mm. long, the_ tube 

 slightly exceeding the lower lip with a narrow band of hairs on the inner surface forming a 

 transverse ring ; upper lip 2-3 mm. long, retuse ; middle lobe of the lower lip almost as long as 

 the tube, retuse; stamens only slightly exserted, the connective articulate to the filament and 

 about the same length, its lower end evident as a short spur below the articulation. 



Dry slopes and hillsides, mainly Upper Sonoran Zone; Contra Costa and Stanislaus Counties, south through 

 the Coast Ranges of central California and southern California to adjacent Lower California. Type locality: 

 probably in the vicinity of Monterey, California. Collected by Douglas. March-Aug. 



Salvia mellifera subsp. Jonesii (Munz) Abrams. (Salvia mellifera var. Jonesii Munz, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 

 26:24. 1927; .S^. Munzii Epling, Madrono 3: 169. 1935.) Lower and more compact habit; leaves shorter, 1-3 

 cm. long, more obovate; flower-verticils few-flowered, forming a capitate cluster, scarcely over IS mm ._ broad; 

 corolla bright blue. In California this subspecies occurs so far as known only on San Miguel Mountain, Saa 

 Diego County. In Lower California it ranges as far south as the San Pedro Martir Mountains and San Rosario. 

 Type locality: south of Hamilton Ranch, Lower California. 



Salvia mellifera subsp. revoliita (Brandg.) Abrams. (Audibertia stachyoides var. revoluta Brandg. Proc. 

 Calif. Acad. II. 1: 216. 1888; Salvia mellifera var. revoluta Munz. Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 26: 23. 1927; 

 5". Brandegei Munz, op. cit. 31 : 69. 1932.) Leaves more loosely woolly beneath, the margins distinctly revolute; 

 corolla lavender, the hairs within the corolla-tube not reduced to a narrow annular band but more widely spaced 

 above the middle; stamens often wholly included on some plants but often exserted in others, according to field 

 observations of Reid Moran. Canyons of Santa Rosa Island, southern California, the type locality. 



11. Salvia eremostachya Jepson. Desert Sage. Fig. 4413. 



Salvia eremostachya Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 870. 1925. 



A low much-branched shrub 0.5-1 m. high, the branches ashy-gray with spreading glandular 

 hairs. Leaves deltoid-oblong to linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, truncate at base or narrowed to a some- 

 what margined petiole 3-8 mm. long, crenulate and often revolute on the margins, hispidulous 

 on both sides, bullate above; whorls of the inflorescence mostly 2-3 from an interrupted spike; 

 bracts thin, round-ovate, short-acuminate, glandular and sparingly pilose; calyx to 11 mm. long, 

 upper lip entire or 2-3-spinose, 4-5 mm. long, lower lip with 2 distinct lobes 4.5-5 mm. long; 

 corolla violet-blue or sometimes rose-colored, the tube cylindrical, arcuate, 14-17 rnm. long, 

 pubescent within above the middle, lobes of the upper lip 4-6 mm. long, often erose, middle lobe 

 of the lower lip rounded, forked and eroded ; stamens attached in the throat, the connective and 

 filament subequal. 



Desert slopes, Lower Sonoran Zone; infrequent on the desert slope of the Santa Rosa Mountains, California. 

 Type locality; Indian Canyon, south of Collins Valley, northeastern San Diego County. April-Nov. 



12. Salvia mohavensis Greene. Mojave Sage. Fig. 4414. 



Audibertia capitata A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 387. 1868. Not Salvia capitata Schlecht. 1853. 

 Salvia mohavensis Greene, Pittonia 2: 235. 1892. 

 Atidtbertiella capitata Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 

 Ramona capitata Briq. op. cit. 440. 



Low compact, much-branched shrub 4-8 dm. high, the leaf -bearing branches mostly 6-15 cm. 



