396 LABIATAE 



Saint Helena, Clara Hunt; Ross Valley, Marin Co., Jepson 14,936; Berkeley, Jepson 14,937; Ala- 

 meda, Jepson 21,243; Los Gates, Heller 7288; Carmel, Monterey Co., E. Ferguson 328; Cambria, 

 Sau Luis Obispo Co., Rose. S. Cal. : betw. Pelican Bay and Prisoners Harbor, Santa Cruz Isl., 

 Abrams 4' Wiggins 100; Ga-riota Pass, Santa Barbara Co., Mum 9317; Henninger Flats, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Peirson 178; Eecbe Caiion, se. of Colton, Parish; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King; 

 Witch Creek, San Diego Co., Alderson. 



A form with densely villous calyx (var. similis Jepson) occurs as follows. — Coast Ranges: 

 Phillipsville, South Fork Eel River, Tracy 5472 ; Longvale, cent. Mendocino Co., Tracy 6221 ; South 

 Mill Creek, Ukiah, Jepson 9260; Napa Range, e. of Napa, Howell 6059; Mt. Diablo,' Jepson 9217. 

 Sierra Nevada: Pacific House, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. Grant; 

 Kinsley, Mariposa Co., C. M. HoaTo. 



The var. similis Jepson is not here thought to be of much moment, but the following note is 

 commended to the attention of field investigators: There has recently been segregated by C. Epliug 

 (Madroiio 5:52-55, — 1939) a subsp. similis (Jepson) Epling with hairy corolla palate and tube 

 glabrous within below middle (Coast Ranges from Santa Clara Co. north to Siskiyou Co. and Sierra 

 Nevada from Mariposa Co. north to Shasta Co.) ; and a subsp. australis Epling (typical S. tube- 

 rosa) with glabrous corolla palate and tube hairy within below middle (Coast Ranges from Ala- 

 meda Co. to Monterey Co. and coastal Southern California). It is well to indicate that the stations 

 cited as "intermediates" under subsp. australis are equally numerous with the stations cited as 

 subspecies australis and that these "intermediates" range from Mendocino Co., the Sacramento 

 Valley and the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles Co., a distribution within California more exten- 

 sive than the subspecies australis and not only extending much further north and east, but also 

 covering most of the range of the subspecies. The problem has a peculiar interest. 



Refs. — ScuTELLAKiA TDBEROSA Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 441 (1834), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 454 (1901), ed. 2, 354 (1911), Man. 865 (1925). S. pilosiuscula Nutt. ; 

 Beuth. in DC, Prodr. 12:429 (1848), Santa Barbara, Nuttall. S. tuberosa subsp. australis Epliug, 

 Madrono 5:54 (1939). Var. SIMILIS Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 454 (1901), type loc. Palisades, 

 Pope Valley grade e. of Calistoga, Jepson 14,940; ed. 2, 355 (1911), Man. 865 (1925). S. tuberosa 

 subsp. similis Epling, Madroiio 5:54 (1939), the var. similis Jepson, extended. 



Scutellaria lateriflora L., Sp. PI. 598 (1753), "in Canada, Virginia"; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 355 (1911), Man. 863 (1925). Mad-dog Skullcap. Stem erect, freely branched, 

 strongly channeled, 1 to 2 feet high ; herbage puberulcnt or subglabrous ; leaf -blades ovate to 

 ovate lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, 1 to 2 inches long, on slender petioles 1 to 9 lines 

 long; flowers in one-sided racemes, the racemes axillary and sometimes also terminal, 1 to 2Y2 

 inches long; calyx papery-capsular in fruit, puberuleut; corolla 2 to 3 lines long, the lips short, 

 equal. — Bouldin Isl., lower Sau Joaquin River, in 1892 (Zoe 4:215) ; not re-coUected since in Cal. 

 Oregon to British Columbia, east to Newfoundland and Florida. 



7. S. nana Gray. Dwarf Skullcap. Stems .somewhat tufted, densely leafy, 

 2 to 3 inches high, arising from slender monilif orm tubers ; herbage densely puberu- 

 leut; leaf -blades obovate to oblong, obtuse, entire, thickish, 4 to 8 lines long, tapering 

 iuto a short (Yo to 1 line) petiole; flowers 7 to 10 lines long; corolla white, rather 

 broad, with equal lips and dilated throat, the middle lobe of lower lip concave or 

 cupped ; lateral lobes small, tending to approximate the upper lip ; nutlets densely 

 papillate. 



Ashy soil of lava plateaus, 4000 to 6500 feet : Plumas and Lassen Cos. to Siskiyou 

 and Modoc Cos. East to Nevada and Wyoming, north to Idaho. June-July. 



Locs. — Chester (6 mi. w.), Plumas Co., Keclc 1720; Pine Creek, Lassen Co., M. S. Baher; 

 Bieber Range, nw. Lassen Co., L. S. Smith; Igerna, Siskiyou Co., Heller 8086; Egg Lake, Modoc 

 Co., M. S. BaTcer. 



Refs. — Scutellaria nana Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11:100 (1876), type loc. Winnemucca 

 Valley near Pyramid Lake, Nev., Lemmon; Jepson, Man. 865 (1925). 



4. SALAZARIA Torr. 



Divaricately branched shrub with spinescent sparsely leafy branchlets. Flowers 

 in loose spikes. Calyx oblong, with 2 very short truncate entire lips, in fruit mem- 

 branous, ovate-globose, conspicuously enlarged and resembling an inflated bladder. 

 Corolla white or lavender-tinged, 2-lipped, the middle lobe of lower lip deep purple, 

 roundish with recurved sides, its strongly distended floor closing the throat, the 

 small lateral lobes more connected with the erect galeate upper lip. Fertile stamens 

 4, the lower pair longer, the filaments slightly pubescent below. Upper fork of style 



