646 MENTHACEAE 



tate; flowers few in the axillary clusters, short-pedicelled ; calyx about 6 mm. long; corolla 

 white or faintly tinged with lavender, 10-14 mm. long. 



Waste places and open woods, Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; western Washington and Oregon to 

 central California. Naturalized from Europe. June-Sept. 



20. SATUREJA L. Sp. PI. 567. 1753. 



Perennial herbs or suffrutescent plants with entire or toothed leaves. Flowers solitary 

 in the axils or in few-flowered axillary clusters. Calyx cylindric or narrowly campanu- 

 late, 5-toothed, and usually 13-15-nerved in our species. Corolla small, little-exserted, or 

 showy and well-exserted ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed; lower lip spreading 3-lobed. Stamens 

 4, all perfect, ascending under the upper lip and included or little-exserted. Styles gla- 

 brous or hairy. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. [Ancient Latin name.] 



A large and diversified genus of about ISO species, widely distributed in all the continents. Type species, 

 Satureja hortensis L. This is Summer Savory of herb gardens and in horticulture is often called Calamtntha 

 hortensis. 



Flowers white or white tinged with purple, 6-8 mm. long; herbage not villous. 



Trailing, with evergreen glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves; flowers solitary in the axils. 



1. S. Douglasu. 



Erect, branching and shrubby; leaves grayish-puberulent on both sides. 2. S. Chandlcri. 



Flowers orange, 3-4 cm. long; stems stout, erect, entirely herbaceous; herbage conspicuously villous. 



2. S. mtmulotdcs. 



1. Satureja Douglasii (Benth.) Briq. Yerba Buena. Fig. 4423. 



Thymus Douglasii Benth. Linnaea 6: 80. 1831. 



Thymus Chamissonis Benth. loc. cit. 



Micromeria Douglasii Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 372. 1834. 



Micromeria Chamissonis Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 289. 1894. 



Satureja Douglasii Briq. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 43» : 300. 1897. 



Trailing aromatic perennial, the stems slender, often rooting. Leaves evergreen, ovate, 

 15-25 mm. long, obtuse to subcordate at base, obtuse at apex, rather shallowly crenate or 

 crenate-serrate, glabrous above, glandular-dotted and sparsely puberulent especially on the vems 

 beneath and on the petioles; flowers solitary in the axils; pedicels slender, mostly 10-15 mm. 

 long, with a pair of small slender bracteoles below the middle ; calyx tubular, 4 mm. long, 12-15- 

 ribbed, puberulent, the hairs recurved at the apex ; corolla white or more or less tmged with 

 purple, pubescent without and on the throat within, 6-8 mm. long. 



Woods mainly Humid Transition Zone; Vancouver Island to northern Idaho, south, west of the Cascades 

 and the Sierra Nevada, to Los Angeles County, California. Type locality: California. April-Oct. 



2. Satureja Chandler! (Brandg.) Druce. San Miguel Satureja. Fig. 4424. 



Calamintha Chandleri Brandg. Zoe 5: 195. 1905. 



Satureja Chandleri Druce, Rep. Bot. Exch. CI. Brit. Isles 1916: 644. 1917. 



Stems frutescent, branching, forming clumps about 1 m. high, the seasonal branches pubes- 

 cent. Leaves orbicular-ovate, 1-2 cm. long, short-petioled, shallowly crenate or entire, villous- 

 pubescent beneath, puberulent above with short curved hairs ; flowers in axillary clusters of 1-5, 

 on short peduncles ; pedicels 1-2 mm. long ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 7-8 mm. long, including 

 the ovate-lanceolate teeth; corolla cream-white, pubescent without, tube 6-7 mm. long, upper 

 lip 2-3 mm. long, erect, the lower 3-4 mm. long, 3-lobed, spreading; style somewhat exserted, 

 pubescent. 



Dry hillsides and canyons, Sonoran Zones; southwestern San Diego County (San Miguel Mountain, and 

 canyon near Murietta), California, and adjacent Lower California. Type locality: San Miguel Mountain, ban 

 Diego County. April-June. 



3. Satureja mimuloides (Benth.) Briq. Mimulus-like Satureja. Fig. 4425. 



Calamintha mimuloides Benth. PI. Hartw. 331. 1849. 



Clinopodium mimulodes Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 515. 1891. 



Satureja mimuloides Briq. in Engler & Prantl, Nat Pflanzenf . 4'" : 302. 1897. 



Perennial herb, the stems stout, erect, simple or branched. 8-15 dm. high, herbage soft-villous 

 and glandular-pubescent, leafy throughout. Leaves ovate, 4-6 cm. long, on petioles of about half 

 their length, coarsely serrate-dentate, the uppermost smaller, ovate-lanceolate and entire ; npwfrs 

 solitary in the axils on pedicels 15-25 mm. long, often with 2-3 additional short-pedicelled 

 flowers in some of the axils ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 13-15-nerved, the teeth subulate with 

 a low triangular base ; corolla orange or tinged with crimson, 3-4 cm. long, sparsely pubescent 

 without; upper lip erect, about 1 cm. long, 2-cleft; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 broader than the lateral ones ; anthers sparsely pubescent ; style exceeding the upper lip, glabrous. 



Creek banks and canyons, Upper Sonoran Zone; Monterey County to the San Gabriel Mountains, Los 

 Angeles County, California. Type locality: in shady places along the Carmel River, Monterey County. Col- 

 lected by Hartweg. June-Oct. 



21. POGOGYNE Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 414. 1834. 



Small aromatic annual herbs with obovate to spatulate leaves and bracteate verticil- 

 late flowers forming dense terminal spikes or the lower verticils distant, the bracts and 



