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desert slopes of the San Jacinto and Cuyamaca Mountains, California. Type locality: vicinity of the Oriflamme 

 Mine, Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California. June-Aug. 



Monardella linoides subsp. oblonga (Greene) Abrams. (Monardella oblonga Greene, Pittonia 5: 83. 1902.) 

 Leaves silvery, oblong-lanceolate, obtusish, 1-1.5 cm. long; bracts ovate, acute, about equaling the calyces. 

 Mount Finos and Mount Frazer, Ventura and Kern Counties, California. Type locality: in the mountains 

 south of Tehachapi, California." 



Monardella linoides subsp. viminea (Greene) Abrams. {Monardella viminea Greene, op. cit 85.) Plants 

 less silvery than in the typical species; leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, mostly 2-3 cm. long and 2-2.5 mm. 

 wide rarely broader, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the apex; bracts lanceolate, acute, greenish 

 white with the tips often rose-tinged, the subtending uppermost pair of leaves often exceeding the bracts. Canyons 

 and hillsides of western San Diego County, California,^ and adjacent Lower California. Type locality: some 

 unrecorded locality in the mountains of San Diego Co." 



Monardella linoides subsp. stricta (Parish) Epling, Ann. Mo. Bot Gard. 12:74. 1925. (AfonarrfW/o 

 linoides var. stricta Parish, Erythea 7 : 96. 1899; M. epilobioides Greene. Pittpnia 5: 85. 1902; M. eptlobioides 

 var. erecta Abrams, Muhlenbergia 8: 36. 1912.) Stems less silvery; leaves mainly linear-lanceolate, acute, 1(>-1 5 

 mm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, reddish purple. Dry slopes. And Transition Zone; ban Gabriel and ^an 

 Bernardino Mountains, California. Isolated colonies of similar plants also occur in the Panamint Mountains. 

 Type locality: dry hills, Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains. 



13. Monardella crispa Elmer. Crisp Monardella. Fig. 4443. 



Monardella crispa Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 39:46. 1905. 



Monardella undulata var. crispa Epling, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 12: 77. 1925. 



Perennial, the branches woody below, ascending or decumbent, 2-4 dm. high, more or less 

 tomentose. Leaves oblanceolate-spatulate, those on the main branches 1.5-2 cm. long, usually 

 with a number of reduced ones on short axillary branchlets, margins undulate or often crisped, 

 rather thinly tomentose on both surfaces ; heads about 2 cm. broad ; bracts round-ovate, 7-8 mm. 

 long, membranous and tinged with reddish purple between the 7-8 parallel veins ; calyx 6 mm. 

 long, villous, teeth triangular, rather blunt at the apex ; corolla purple, tube not exserted. 



Stabilized or drifting sand dunes, Upper Sonoran Zone; vicinity of the coast, San Luis Obispo and 

 Santa Barbara Counties, California. Type locality: Surf, Santa Barbara County. April-June. 



14. Monardella undulata Benth. Curly-leaved Monardella. Fig. 4444. 



Monardella undulata Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 332. 1834. 

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



Annual, usually bushy-branched from near the base, 2-4 dm. high, or sometimes reduced to 

 slender simple or few-branched stems, purplish and strigose. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, nar- 

 rowed to a short petiole, obtuse at apex, 2-5 cm. long, slightly fleshy, the margins undulate, 

 glabrate or sparingly short-villous or pubescent; heads rather compact, 2-3 cm. broad; bracts 

 round-ovate to oblong-ovate, membranous between the prominent greenish veins, usually purplish 

 at least at apex, glabrate or usually villous on the veins; calyx 5-9 mm. long, membranous 

 between the 13-15 nerves, more or less villous, the teeth triangular-lanceolate; corolla 15-20 mm. 

 long, rose-purple, the tube well-exserted. 



Sandy soils, near the coast. Upper Sonoran and Humid Transition Zones; Marin County to northern 

 Santa Barbara County, California. Type locality: probably near Monterey. Collected by Douglas. May-Aug. 



15. Monardella lanceolata A. Gray. Mustang Mint or Mountain Monardella. 



Fig. 4445. 



Monardella lanceolata A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 11: 102. 1876. 



Monardella sanguinea Greene, Pittonia 5:86. 1902. 



Madronella lanceolata Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1: 169. 1906. 



Madronella sanguinea Greene, loc. cit. 



Monardella lanceolata var. sanguinea Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 883. 1925. 



Annual, stems erect, simple or usually divaricately branched above, 2-4.5 dm. high, puberu- 

 lent. Leaves 2-5 cm. long, lanceolate to linear-oblong, entire or rarely remotely serrulate, nar- 

 rowed at base to a slender petiole, 5-15 mm. long, sparsely puberulent; heads 1.5-3 cm. broad; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, surpassing the calyces, membranous but green, often purplish above, 

 pinnately veined, the principal vein-branches nearly erect with net-like veinlets between, scabrous 

 and glandular-dotted ; calyx 6-8 mm. long, glabrous or scabrous, teeth ovate-triangular, hirsute 

 within; corolla pale to deep rose, 12-15 mm. long, tube slightly exserted, puberulent, lobes 

 cupulate at the tips. 



Flats and slopes, usually in sandy or gravelly soils. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; Sierra 

 Nevada from Shasta County, California, and adjacent western Nevada, southward to the Tehachapi Mountains 

 and in the Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo County southward through cismontane southern California to 

 northern Lower California. Type locality: "California, from Plumas to San Diego Co." No specimens were 

 cited by Dr. Gray and no type has been designated by subsequent monographers. 



Monardella lanceolata var. glandulifera I. M. Johnston, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 18: 20. 1919. Stems, 

 petioles and bracts beset with rather stout glandular hairs or processes; corolla red-purple, glandular-dotted 

 exteriorly on the tube and throat. A local variation found on Brown's Flats, San Gabriel Mountains, southern 

 California, the type locality. 



Monardella lanceolata var. microcephala A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^: 459. 1886. Like the 

 typical species in pubescence, but more slender and heads much smaller, not over IS mm. broad; bracts 4-6 mm. 

 long. Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, south to the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Lower 

 California. Type locality: Potrero, San Diego County. 



