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Geog. note. — Agastache urticifolia is limited chiefly to montane areas in California where the 

 seasonal rainfall averages 30, or more commonly, 40 to 50 or 60 inches. In Southern California 

 it is knomi only from the south slope of the San Bernardino Mountains. Between this region and 

 Sonoma County it has thus far been discovered only in the Santa Lueia Mountains near San Luis 

 Obispo, a region marked by a 30 to 40-inch rainfall zone. There is also a 40-inch rainfall contour 

 in Sonoma County about the lower coastal course of the Russian River, where two stations for this 

 species are recorded. The distribution northward is also of interest. While it occm-s in the Coast 

 Ranges to the west and in the Sierra Nevada to the east of Mt. Shasta, it does not, according to 

 present records, inhabit Mt. Shasta itself. It is thus to be included in the considerable list of 

 species which are absent from Mt. Shasta, though found in the high ranges both to the west and 

 to the east. 



The lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla are of about the same shape as the lobes of 

 the upper lip; all these lobes are erect. 



Locs. — San Bernardino Mts. : Oak Glen and Potato Caiion (PI. World, 20:252). San Luis 

 Obispo Co.: Lopez Canon, Santa Lucia Mts., Condit. North Coast Ranges: Russian River near 

 Guerneville, Davy 4135 ; Caux's Knob, w. of St. Helena, Jepson 14,893 ; Scott Valley, Lake Co., 

 Jepson 14,897; Castle Peak, ne. Mendocino Co., Jepson 14,891; Van Duzen River Valley, opposite' 

 Buck Mt., Tracy 2802 ; Whiskey Camp, Marble Mts., Butler 171 ; Moffett Creek, cent. Siskiyou Co., 

 Butler 1533; Poker Flat, w. Siskiyou Mts., Jepson 18,553. Sierra Nevada: Sequoia Park, W. Fry 

 12; Bubbs Creek, South Fork Kings River, Jepson 782; Shadow Lake, Middle Fork San Joaquin 

 River, A. L. Grant 1566; Kelty Mdw., Madera Co., Kennedy; Yosemite, Jepson 4262; Hetch- 

 Hetchy, Jepson; Cow Creek, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 67; Dorrington, Calaveras Co., Jepson 

 10,051; upper Truckee River, Eldorado Co., E. M. Wheeler; Sierra Valley, Sierra Co., Lemmon; 

 Lost Lake, Warner Range, L. S. Smith 1028 ; Egg Lake, w. Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 



Refs. — Agastache urticifolia Ktze., Rev. Gen. 2:511 (1891); Jepson, Man. 866, fig. 813 

 (1925). Lophanthus urticifolius Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 1282 (1829), type from "the northwest 

 coast of America," Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 455 (1901), ed. 2, 356 (1911). Vleckia 

 urticifolia Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3:89 (1836). A. glaucifolia Hel., Muhl. 1:32 (1904), type loc 

 Knights Valley, Sonoma Co., HcHer 5792. 



7. NEPETAL. 



Perennial herbs. Calyx tubular, obliquely 5-toothed, the upper teeth longer 

 than the lower. Corolla-tube enlarged above, distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip ereet, 

 lower spreading, the middle lobe larger than the lateral. Stamens 4, not exserted, 

 ascending under the upper lip, the lower pair the shorter, all anther-bearing, with 

 the anthers approximate in pairs. Nutlets ovoid, flattened, smooth.- — Species 150, 

 Europe, Asia and Africa. (Old Latin name used by Pliny, perhaps from the city 

 Nepete in Tuscany. ) 



Flowers numerous, in dense spikes, the spikes paniculate; leaves triangular-ovate, whitetomcntu- 



lose below l.N.cataria. 



Flowers few, in axillary verticils ; leaves renif orm-orbicular, glabrous or nearly so..2. N. hederacea. 



1. N. cataria L. Catnip. Stems 2 to 3 feet high ; herbage canescent with fine 

 hairs, the upper surface of the leaves green, puberulent; leaf-blades triangular- 

 ovate, truncate or cordate at base, coarsely crenate, % to II/2 (or 2%) inches long, 

 on petioles 1 to 7 lines long ; spikes V2 to II/2 (or 3) inches long, dense or with 1 or 2 

 accessory whorls below; calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate; corolla white, 4 to 5 lines 

 long, dotted with purple. 



Naturalized European weed, commonly near dwellings, 20 to 4000 feet : scat- 

 tered localities throughout the state. July- Aug. 



Locs. — Forestdale, sw. Modoc Co., M. S. Balcer ; Greenhorn Creek, near Quincy, Jepson 19,444 ; 

 Scott Valley, Lake Co., Jepson 21,231 (in 1892) ; Mt. Konocti, Lake Co., Jepson 14,896 (in 1892) ; 

 Russian River near Guerneville, Davy 4134; Santa Rosa, Chesnut (in 1887) ; Petaluma, Chcsnut; 

 Edgar Canon, San Bernardino Mts., in 1872 (Zoe, 1:124) ; Riverside, Beaumont and Piru Creek 

 (Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 19^:23). 



Rofs. — Nepeta cataria L., Sp. PI. 570 (1753), tj-pe from Europe; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid Cal 

 455 (1901), ed. 2, 355 (1911), Man. 866 (1925). 



2. N. hederacea Trev. Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the-Ground. Stems few, 

 slender, creeping or trailing, 9 to 24 inches long; herbage glabrous; leaf-blades 

 renif orm-orbicular, or basal sinus wholly closed, crenate, 1/4 to 1 inch long; flowers 



