650 MENTHACEAE 



Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, and in the adjacent Sierra Laguna Hansen, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: near Talley's, Cuyamaca Mountains. Collected by Cleveland. June-July. 



Monardella nana subsp. leptosiphon (Torr.) Abrams. {Monardella villosa var. leptosiphon Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 129. 1859; M. nana var. leptosiphon Abrams, Muhlenbergia 8:31. 1912.) Stems and leaves villous- 

 pubescent with spreading hairs; corolla-tube 20-25 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; corolla-lobes 1 cm. long, exceeding 

 the stamens. Open coniferous forests and chaparral, Palomar Mountains, San Diego County, California. Type 

 locality: "San Felipe," probably in the mountains west of San Felipe canyon along the old San Diego-Fort 

 Yuma road. 



Monardella nana subsp. tenuiflora (S. Wats.) Abrams. {Monardella tenuiflora S. Wats, ex A. Gray, 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. 7:230. 1882; M. nana var. tenuiflora Abrams, Muhlenbergia 8:32. 1912.) Stems about 

 1 dm. high, cinereous with close recurved pubescence; leaves ovate to elliptic, 15 mm. or less in length, 

 puberulent above with upwardly curved hairs; corolla-tube very slender, less than 1 mm. wide, about 20 mm. 

 long; corolla-lobes about 6 mm. long, acute. Yellow pine forests, Arid Transition Zone; San Jacinto Moun- 

 tains, Riverside County, California. Type locality : San Jacinto Mountains. 



Monardella nana subsp. arida (Hall) Abrams. (Monardella macrantha var. arida Hall, Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Bot. 1: 111. pi. 10. 1902; M. nana var. arida Abrams, Muhlenbergia 8:33. 1912.) Stems and leaves 

 cinereous throughout with a close puberulence; stems short, usually less than 1 dm. long; leaves crowded, 

 usually less than 1 cm. long, rather thick and often curved, lateral veins not evident; bracts white, tinged 

 with rose; corolla white or cream-colored; tube scarcely over 0.5 mm. thick, 15-20 mm. long; lobes mostly 

 less than 5 mm. long. Rocky desert slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; desert slope of the San Jacinto and Santa 

 Rosa Mountains, mostly between 4,000 and 5,000 feet altitude. Riverside County, California. Type locality; 

 "In the desert region to the southeast of San Jacinto Mt., along Coyote Creek, at 5000 ft. alt." 



3. Monardella cinerea Abrams. Gray Monardella. Fig. 4433. 



Monardella cinerea Abrams, Muhlenbergia 8:33. 1912. 



Stems freely branching, slightly woody at base, 5-10 cm. long, cinereous. Leaves sessile, 

 5-8 mm. long, broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse at apex, abruptly rounded at base, denticulate, 

 cinereous on both surfaces with soft-villous tomentum ; floral pair of leaves similar, closely 

 subtending the head ; bracts broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, 8 mm. long, purple, sparsely villous- 

 pubescent ; heads 15-20 mm. broad, many-flowered; calyx 7 mm. long, villous-pubescent and 

 glandular, purple above ; teeth subulate, 2 mm. long ; corolla lavender, its tube not exserted, its 

 lobes 4 mm. long ; lower pair of stamens slightly exceeding the corolla-lobes, a third longer than 

 the upper pair. 



Rocky ridges. Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; Mount San Antonio (Old Baldy) and summits of 

 neighboring ridges, San Gabriel Mountains, southern California. Type locality: Mount San Antonio, at about 

 9,000 feet altitude. July-Aug. 



4. Monardella villosa Benth. Coyote Mint. Fig. 4434. 



Monardella villosa Benth. Bot. Sulph. 42. pi. 21. 1844. 

 Monardella globosa Greene, Pittonia 5: 82. 1902. 

 Monardella involucrata Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 34. 1904. 

 Madronella villosa Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1: 168. 1906. 



Flowering stems several from the branching woody base, mostly simple or often with a few 

 short ascending branches, 1-6 dm. high, villous-pubescent. Leaves round-ovate to narrowly ovate, 

 entire or unevenly serrate, 1-2 cm. long, dark green and thinly pubescent above, paler beneath 

 and more or less villous-pubescent, petiole slender, about half as long as the blade; heads globose, 

 15-20 mm. broad, often closely subtended by 1 or 2 pairs of true leaves; bracts ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6-9 mm. long, usually purplish, pinnately veined, villous-pubescent on both surfaces ; 

 calyx 7-8 mm. long, glandular-villous, densely so on the teeth ; corolla purple, varying to pink or 

 almost white, the tube slightly exserted, pubescent without, lobes narrowly linear, 4—5 mm. long, 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy. 



Rocky ridges or gravelly flats, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; California Coast Ranges from 

 Humboldt County to San Luis Obispo (bounty, California. Type locality: Bodega Bay, California. June-Aug. 



Monardella villosa var. franciscana (Elmer) Epiing, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 12:48. 1925. {Monardella 

 franciscana Elmer, Bot. Gar. 41:320. 1906.) Stems villous and especially the upper parts tomentose; leaves 

 broadly ovate to suborbicular, thick, truncate to subcordate at base, villous above, tomentos and canescent 

 beneath. Near the coast from Point Reyes to San Simeon Bay, California. Type locality: San Pedro, San 

 Mateo County, California. 



Monardella villosa subsp. subserrata (Greene) Epiing, loc. cit. {Monardella subserrata Greene, Pittonia 

 5:81. 1902; M. fomrtitojo Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 496. 1903; A/. »no//i> Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 35. 

 1904.) Stems villous to villous-tomentose especially on the upper internodes. Leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, mostly 2-2.5 cm. long, entire or with a few shallow serrations, soft villous-tomentose, often densely 

 so beneath; corolla 11-18 mm. long. Dry ridges. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; southwestern Oregon 

 from Roseberg to the Rogue River Valley, also in the California Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to 

 Monterey County, and the Sierra Nevada foothills from Amador County to Tuolumne County. Type locality: 

 Sonoma County, California. 



Monardella villosa subsp. Shelt6nii (Torr.) Epiing, op. cit. 50. {Monardella Sheltonii Torr. Journ. 

 Acad. Phila. II. 3:99. 1855; M. villosa var. plabclla A. Grav, Bot. Calif. 1: 593. 1876: M. rcflr.ra Howell, 

 Fl. N.W. Amer. 549. 1901; M. coriacea Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 35. 1904.) Stems puberulent or glabrous. 

 Leaves narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, puberulent or nearly glabrous, entire or obscurely serrate, narrowed 

 at base to a short petiole; bracts lanceolate, reflexed, short-pubescent, not ciliate on the margins. Southern 

 Oregon in (Turry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath Counties, south in the Coast Ranges to Monterey County 

 and in the Sierra Nevada to Fresno County, California. Type locality: Nevada City, Nevada County, California. 



Monardella villosa subsp. neglecta (Greene) Epiing. op. cit. 52. {Monardella neglecta Greene, 

 Pittonia 5:82. 1902; Madronella neglecta Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1:169. 1906.) Stems puberulent to 

 pubescent on the upper internodes. Leaves ovate to oblong, 1-1.5 cm. long, tapering at base to a short petiole; 

 bracts ovate, acute, membranaceous, only the outer foliaceous and reflexed, the innermost purple, pubescent 

 to glabrous, ciliate on the margins. A variable plant peculiar to the Coast Ranges of central California (Marin 

 County, San Mateo County, in Mount Hamilton range, California). Type locality: Marin County, California. 



