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what pubescent above, 6-15' liigli ; brandies divaricately branched ; leaves 
obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, entire, narrowed at base and 
short-petioled, ^-li' long ; floral leaves scarcely larger than the bracts, sessile, 
broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, ciliate, often purplish ; whorls densely 
flowered, globose, distinct ; calyx pubescent, with the oblong obtuse lobes of 
the lower lip shorter than the broadly rounded entire and very obtuse upper 
one ; corolla pale blue, the tube straight, naked, and glabrous within, twice 
longer than the calyx, and the lower lip nearly twice longer than the upper 
one, with the middle lobe very broad, concave, emarginate and denticulate. 
Oregon, (Douglas;) Western Nevada, (Beckwith, Anderson;) Providence 
Mountains, Southern California, (Cooj^er.) Washoe and West Humboldt 
Mountains, and in Monitor Valley, Nevada ; 4,500-G,000 feet altitude ; May- 
August. (829.) 
LoPHANTHUS URTiCiEFOLius, Bcnth. DC. Piodr. 12. 368. Glabrous, 
erect, 2-4° high ; leaves cordate-ovate, crenate or serrate, green upon both 
sides, obtuse or the uppermost somewhat acute, the floral ones sessile, ovate 
and acute ; bracts few, lanceolate-linear, shorter than the calyx ; spike dense, 
oblong, 2-4' long ; calyx 2-6" long, incurved, glabrous or puberulent, the throat 
oblique, the membranous teeth colored, long-subulate-acuminatc, the upper 
ones longest ; corolla purple, shortly exserted, the throat slightly inflated and 
limb short; stamens much exserted. — Mountains of Oregon and California. 
Very abundant in mountain canons in Nevada, and also in the Wahsatch and 
Uintas ; 6-8,000 feet altitude; July-September. — There is considerable varia- 
tion in the length of the calyx aud calyx teeth, and a close approach at times 
to L. anisatus, but the leaves are uniformly broad-cordate at base and are rarely 
whitish beneath. (830.) 
Nepeta Cataria, L. Canons of the Wahsatch, near settlements ; doubt- 
less introduced. (831.) 
Dracocepiialum parvifloruxM, Nutt. Along the Great Lakes and 
through Central British America to Great Bear Lake and on the Youkon in 
Alaska; on the Tapper ^[issouri and southward to New IMexico and Northern 
Arizona. lu the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; May- July. (832.) 
Brunella vulgaris, L. Through the Eastern States to Newfoundland 
and Canada, and westward on the Saskatchewan ; on the western coast from 
Unalaska and Sitka to the Sacramento River. East Humboldt Mountains, 
