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16. Salvia leucophylla Greene. Gray Sage. Fig. 4418. 



A udibertia nivea Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 313. 1833. Not Salvia nivea Thunh. 

 Salvia leucophylla Greene, Pittonia 2: 236. 1892. 

 Audibcrtictla nivea Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 : 73. 1894. 

 Ramona nivea Briq. op. cit. 440. 



Much-branched shrub, 1-1.5 m. high, whole plant clothed with a whitish gray tomentum, the 

 hairs very short and much-branched. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, obtuse or rounded 

 at apex, usually subcordate at base, short-petioled, crenulate, rugose above; flower-whorls usu- 

 ally 3-5, forming an interrupted spike, many-flowered, the lower often 3 cm. in diameter ; bracts 

 oval or oblong, 8-15 mm. long, often tinged with purple beneath the minute white tomentum; 

 calyx 8-11 mm. long, somewhat cucullate, the orifice very oblique and the teeth suppressed; 

 corolla bluish-lavender, about 2 cm. long ; lips subequal, the lower with the middle lobe oblong 

 and plane, 4-5 mm. long, the lateral lobes well-developed; stamens exserted, connective shorter 

 than the filament, the lower end not extending below the articul.ation. 



Dry hillsides. Upper Sonoran Zone; southern California Coast Ranges, vicinity of Pismo, San Luis Obispo 

 County, and Lebec, Kern County, south to the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County. Type locality: probably in 

 the vicinity of Santa Barbara. Collected by Douglas. April-Aug. 



16. MONArDA L. Sp. PI. 22. 1753. 



Perennial or annual aromatic herbs with erect stems and dentate or serrate leaves. 

 Flowers showy, in dense capitate clusters terminal or also in the upper axils, subtended by 

 often colored bracts and bractlets. Calyx tubular, 15-nerved, about equally 5-toothed, 

 often villous in the throat. Corolla glabrous within, usually glandular or puberulent with- 

 out, 2-lipped; the upper lip erect or arched, emarginate or entire, the lower 3-lobed, 

 spreading, the middle lobe longer than the others. Antheriferous stamens 2, ascending 

 close under the upper lip, often exserted, the upper pair rudimentary or wanting; anthers 

 linear, the sacs divaricate. Styles 2-clef t at apex ; ovary deeply 4-parted. Nutlets ovoid, 

 smooth. [Name in honor of Nicolas Monardes, a Spanish physician and botanist of the 

 sixteenth century.] 



A genus of about 12 species, all natives of North America. Type species, Monarda fistulosa L. 



1. Monarda pectinata Nutt. Plains Lemon Monarda. Fig. 4419. 



Monarda pectinata Nutt. Proc. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 182. 1847. 



Annual ; stems stout, erect, simple or branched, 25-35 cm. high, retrorsely puberulent. Leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, narrowed at base to a short petiole, 

 rather distantly serrulate or subentire, glandular-punctate on both surfaces, puberulent beneath, 

 the uppermost more or less villous-ciliate, at least at base ; flowers in dense capitate verticils in 

 the upper axils ; bracts pale, lanceolate, 10-12 mm. long, prominently mucronate-aristate, long- 

 ciliate on the margins ; calyx puberulent without, densely villous on the throat within, the teeth 

 aristate, about half as long as the tube, often rose-tinted; corolla pink or white, 16-18 mm. long, 

 glandular-punctate and sparsely puberulent without ; stamens scarcely equaling the upper lip. 



Dry slopes and plains. Upper Sonoran Zone; known within our range only in the New York Mountains, 

 Mojave Desert, California, extending through Arizona and New Mexico to Texas, Colorado, and Nebraska. Type 

 locality: "Near Santa Fe, New Mexico." May-June. 



17. LEPECHtNIA Willd. Hort. Berol. 1 : 20, pi 21. 1806. 



Shrubby or suffrutescent aromatic plants, or rarely perennial herbs. Flowers showy, 

 solitary in the axils of the bract-like upper leaves, forming short racemes, or in 2-6- 

 fiowered verticils and spicate. Cal>Tc campanulate, subequally 5-toothed, often enlarged 

 in fruit, naked within. Corolla with a broad tube pilose-annulate at base within, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes broad, rounded and plane, erect or nearly so, the upper bifid, the lateral entire 

 and smaller, the lower emarginate. Stamens 4, subequal or didynamous ; filaments gla- 

 brous ; anther-sacs divergent. Nutlets smooth. [Name in honor of Lepechin, a Russian 

 botanist and traveler.] 



About 25 species, mostly natives of western South America, two species in California and one in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. Type species, Horminum cautescens Ortega. 



1. Lepechinia calycina (Benth.) Epling. Pitcher Sage. Fig. 4420. 



Sphacele calycina Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 568. 1834. 



Sphacele calycina var. glabella A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 598. 1876. 



Alguelagum calycinitm Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 512. 1891. 



Sphacele gracilis Eastw. Zoe 5: 83. 1900. 



Sphacele Blochmaniae Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 495. 1903. 



Sphacele calycina var. gracilis Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 876. 1925. 



Lepechinia calycina Epling ex Munz, Man. S. Calif. 447, 600. 1935. 



Low shrubby plant 1-1.5 m. high, more or less villous with branching hairs and glandular- 

 dotted. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, prominently serrate or crenate-serrate to subentire, 



