632 MENTHACEAE 



cent and glandular, the teeth triangular to narrowly lanceolate, mucronate; corolla rose-purple, 

 15-25 mm. long ; upper lip 6-9 mm. long, lower 10-13, filaments of stamens hirsute. 



Often in partial shade, near the coast. Humid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; Humboldt County to 

 San Mateo County, also in San Luis Obispo County, California. Type locality: probably in the vicinity of San 

 Francisco. Collected by Chamisso. June-Oct. 



4. Stachys ciliata Dougl. Great Hedge Nettle. Fig. 4392 



Stachys ciliata Dougl. ex. Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 539. 1834. 

 Stachys Cooleyae Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 590. 1899. 

 Stachys caurina Piper, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 32: 42. 1919. 

 Stachys confertiflora Piper, loc. cit. 



Perennial, the stems stout, simple or few-branched, 6-10 dm. high, glabrate or rather spar- 

 ingly retrorsely hispidulous on the angles, the hairs pustulate at base, puberulent on the sides, 

 and glandular. Leaves narrowly ovate, 7-12 cm. long, cordate at base, acute or short-acuminate 

 at apex, crenate-serrate, more or less appressed-pubescent above, short-villous, or pubescent be- 

 neath, petioles villous-pubescent and more or less glandular to nearly glabrate, 2-5 cm. long ; 

 verticils 4-6-flowered, in interrupted spikes 8-30 cm. long, the subtending leaves reduced to 

 bracts; calyx 8-12 mm. long, glandular-pilose, the teeth lanceolate to narrowly deltoid, short- 

 spinose; corolla reddish purple, the tube 15-20 mm. long, the ring of hairs within basal and 

 horizontal; upper lip 6-8 mm. long, the lower 10-15 mm.; stamen-filaments pubescent. 



Usually moist rich soils. Transition Zones; Vancouver Island to Spokane County, Washington, south to 

 Jackson and Klamath Counties, Oregon. Type locality: on the Columbia River, probably in the vicinity of 

 Fort Vancouver, Washington. June-Aug. 



5. Stachys Emersonii Piper. Emerson's Hedge Nettle. Fig. 4393. 



Stachys ciliata var. pubens A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 388. 1878. 



Stachys Emersonii Piper, Erythea 6:31. 1898. 



Stachys pubens Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 581. 1898. 



Perennial, hirsute throughout and more or less densely so in the inflorescence, the hairs on 

 the angles of the stems pustulate at base; stems simple or commonly branched, strict, 4-7 dm. 

 high. Leaves with slender petioles 2-4 cm. long, the blades mostly ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. 

 long, cordate or subcordate at base, acute at apex, rather thin, not rugose, coarsely crenate-ser- 

 rate; flowers in interrupted spikes in the axils of the reduced upper leaves, short-pedicelled ; 

 calyx 5-7 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate-subulate, usually spreading; corolla reddish purple, 

 10-15 mm. long, the tube rather broad, with a horizontal annular band of hairs well above the 

 base within ; lower lip 6-8 mm. long, spotted with white. 



Moist ground. Humid Transition Zone; British Columbia south through western Washington and Oregon 

 to Mendocino County, California. Type locality: Hoquiam, Chehalis County, Washington. June-Aug. 



6. Stachys palustris subsp. pilosa (Nutt.) Epling. Swamp Hedge Nettle. 



Fig. 4394. 



Stachys pilosa Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 48. 1834. 



Stachys scopulorum Greene, Pittonia 3: 342. 1898. 



Stachys Leibergii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 682. 1908. 



Stachys palustris subsp. pilosa Epling, Rep. Spec. Nov. Beihefte 80: 63. 1934. 



Perennial, the stems rather slender, simple or with a few branches, 3-6 dm. high, more or less 

 villous-pubescent, with interspersed stalked glands. Leaves all sessile or subsessile, linear-lanceo- 

 late to broadly lanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, subcordate to rounded at base, acutish or more com- 

 monly attenuate at apex, serrate, soft pubescent on both surfaces; spikes interrupted except at 

 apex, 5-15 cm. long; calyx villous, 6-7 mm. long, the teeth lanceolate, cuspidate, as long as the 

 tube ; corolla pale rose veined with deeper rose, the tube little longer than calyx ; upper lip 

 3-4 mm. long, the lower 8 mm. long, both villous on the back; filaments glabrous. 



Meadows and stream banks, Canadian and Transition Zones; Yukon, Alaska, southeast of the Cascades 

 to Washington, Oregon and northeastern California, east to the Great Lakes. Type locality: "In the valleys of 

 the Rocky Mountains." Collected by Wyeth "on the returning route of Mr. W. from the Falls of the Columbia 

 to the first navigable waters of the Missouri." June-Aug. 



7. Stachys stricta Greene. Sonoma Hedge Nettle. Fig. 4395. 



Stachys stricta Greene, Erythea 2: 122. 1894. 



Stachys ajugoides var. stricta Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 457. 1901. 



Perennial, villous-hirsute throughout with abundant resinous glands beneath the pubescence, 

 the stems erect or decumbent, 6-12 dm. high. Leaves ascending or suberect, the middle and 

 upper short-petioled or subsessile, deltoid-lanceolate, 5-15 cm. long, acute or rounded at apex, 

 subcordate at base, crenate-serrate; spikes becoming interrupted; verticils globose, 8-12-flowered; 

 calyx 5-6 mm. long, the teeth deltoid, remaining erect in age, about equaling the tube; corolla 

 white, tube about 6 mm. long, barely exserted, inner hairy ring only slightly oblique, well below 

 the middle, exteriorly indicated by a faint suggestion of a spur on the lower side ; upper lip less 

 than 2 mm. long, not hooded, lower lip 4 mm. long, its lateral lobes reduced to minute recurved 

 teeth; filaments short, not exserted beyond tube, pubescent below. 



Wet meadows, bogs, LTpper Sonoran Zone; North Coast Ranges, Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, and Glenn 

 Counties, and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Butte County to Merced County, California. Type locality: 

 Knights Valley, Sonoma County. June-Sept. 



