626 MENTHACEAE 



berulent; inflorescence compact, 4-15 cm. long, tapering, lower verticils sometimes remote; bracts 

 ovate to lanceolate, acuminate ; calyx puberulent to nearly glabrous, the tube greenish, 4-7 mm. 

 long, the lobes deltoid-subulate, membranous and usually rose-colored, 2.5-5 mm. long; corolla 

 rose-colored or violet, the tube 8-12 mm. long; nutlets 1.5-2 mm. long. 



Moist soils, Canadian and Transition Zones; southeastern British Columbia southeast of the Cascades from 

 Okanogan and Spokane Counties, Washington, to southern Oregon, then extending west over the Cascades to 

 Jackson County, Oregon, and southward through the California Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada to the San 

 Jacinto Mountains, southern California. The California Coast Ranges plants are generally more pubescent, but 

 intergradation is complete especially in the northern Sierra Nevada. Type locality: "the north-west coast of 

 America." Collected by Douglas. June-Aug. 



2. Agastache Cusickii (Greenm.) Heller. Cusick's Agastache. Fig. 4378. 



Lophantkus Cusickii Greenm. Erythea 7: 119. 1899. 

 Agastache Cusickii Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 59. 1904. 



Much-branched suffrutescent perennial, 15-30 cm. high, puberulent throughout w^ith short 

 spreading whitish hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to rather narrowly triangular-ovate, 1-2 cm. 

 long, unevenly crenate-serrate, obtuse or acute, rather abruptly narrowed to the petiole, this equal- 

 ing or shorter than the blade ; spikes terminal, densely flowered, 2-3 cm. long in anthesis ; calyx 

 about 1 cm. long, the teeth about as long as the tube, narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, purplish or 

 whitish; corolla-lobes often pubescent on the inner surface; anthers purple. 



Rocky summits and slopes, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones, Steen Mountains, Oregon. Type 

 locality: Steen Mountains. June-Aug. 



3. Agastache parvifolia Eastw. Small-leaved Agastache. Fig. 4379. 



Agastache parvifolia Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 284. 1940. 



Stems slender, less than 1 m. high, branching, minutely and rather thinly puberulent. Leaves 

 deltoid or sometimes deltoid-ovate, rather firm, the median 2-3.5 cm. long, acute or somewhat 

 acuminate at apex, truncate or slightly cordate at base, coarsely serrate, upper surface rather pale 

 green, minutely puberulent, lower surface microscopically tomentulose ; petioles slender; inflo- 

 rescence compact, tapering ; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate-acuminate ; calyx rose-colored, 

 minutely puberulent, tube 5-6 mm. long, teeth lanceolate-subulate, 4-7 mm. long; corolla-tube 

 about 10 mm. long; nutlets 1.5-1.8 mm. long. 



Mostly on lava rocks. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; Siskiyou, Modoc, and Shasta Counties, 

 California. Type locality: "Lava Beds National Monuments, near Schonchin Butte, Siskiyou Co." June-Aug. 



4. Agastache occidentalis (Piper) Heller. Western Horse-mint. Fig. 4380. 



Vleckia occidentalis Piper, Erythea 6: 31. 1898. 

 Agastache occidentalis Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 4. 1900. 

 Lophanthus occidentalis K. Schum. Bot. Jahresb. 26: 387. 1900. 



Stems mostly simple or sparingly branched, a meter or usually less in height, minutely 

 puberulent to glabrate. Leaves ovate to deltoid-ovate, the median 3-6 cm. long, usually acuminate 

 at apex, truncate or subcordate at base, crenate-serrate with the margins narrowly inroUed, 

 upper surface glabrous or sometimes minutely puberulent, somewhat glossy, under surface densely 

 tomentulose and hoary or canescent ; bracts ovate to lanceolate, acuminate ; calyx violet or rose, 

 subglabrous or thinly hirtellous, the tube 4-7 mm. long, the teeth 2-7 mm. long, acute ; corolla- 

 tube 3-12 mm. long; nutlets 1.5-2 mm. long, the apical bristles stiff. 



Rocky canvon slopes, Arid Transition Zone; eastern slopes and bnse of the Cascades, Washington, from 

 Chelan County "to Yakima County. Type locality: 6 miles northwest of Ellensburg, Washington. June-Aug. 



Cedronella canariensis (L.) Willd. ex Webb & Berth. Phyt. Canar. 3: 87. 1836-1850. {Dracocephalum, 

 canariensc L. Sp. PI. 594. 1753.) Herb-of-Gilead. Fragrant half-shrub, about 1 m. high, woody at base. 

 Leaves trifoliate; leaflets oblong to lanceolate, serrate, 2.5-8 cm. long, pubescent beneath, glabrate above; spikes 

 oblong; calyx pubescent, the teeth lanceolate-acuminate, 3-ribbed; corolla violet or white, 18-20 mm. long. 

 Cultivated as an ornamental, adventive in San Francisco, California. Native of the Canary Islands. 



7. NEPETA [Rivin.] L. Sp. PL 570. 1753. 



Herbs with toothed leaves and usually white or blue flowers' in verticillate cliisters, 

 forming terminal spikes or sometimes axillary and cymose. Calyx cylindric, slightly 

 oblique at the apex, 15-nerved, 5-toothed and obscurely 2-lipped, the upper teeth usually 

 longer. Corolla enlarged above, strongly 2-lipped, upper lip erect, emarginate or 2-lobed, 

 the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed with the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones. Stamens 

 4, all fertile, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip; anther-sacs 2, divergent. Ovary 

 deeply 4-parted;' style 2-cleft at summit. Nutlets ovoid, compressed, smooth. [Ancient 

 Latin name of Catnip.] 



A genus of about 150 species, native of Europe and Asia. Type species, Nepeta Cataria L. 



1. Nepeta Cataria L. Catnip or Catmint. Fig. 4381. 



Nepeta Cataria L. Sp. PI. 570. 1753. 



Perennial, with pale green and densely canescent herbage; stems erect, 5-10 dm. high, 

 branches ascending. Leaves ovate to oblong, petioled, acute at apex, usually cordate at base, 

 coarsely crenate-serrate ; flower-verticils in the axis of small foliaceous bracts forming dense or 



