400 LABIATAE 



few, in axils of lower leaves, shorter than petioles ; calj^x not enlarged in age, the 

 teeth triangular, subulate-tipped ; corolla blue, 3 to 5 lines long. 



Damp usually shaded places, 5 to 3000 feet : uitroduced from Europe, about 

 towns or occasionally remote from habitation. May-June. 



Locs. — Little Arthur Creek, Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 9676 ; BouldiD Isl., San Joaquin Co., in 

 1892 (Zoe 4:215) ; Whispering Pines, sw. Lake Co., M. S. Baker 2237 in 1927; Fort Bragg, W. C. 

 Matliews 10; betw. Freshwater and Ryans Slough, Humboldt Bay, Tracy 4475 in 1914; Beebe's 

 ranch, near jet. Willow Creek and Trinity Eiver, n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 3382 in 1911 ; Brush 

 Creek, Butte Co., Conger. 



Eefs.— Nepeta hederacea Trev., Prosp. Fl. Eng. 26 (1842) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 

 356 (1911), Man. 866 (1925). Glechoma hederacea L., Sp. PI. 578 (1753), type European; Mar- 

 tyn, Fl. Rustica, pi. 61 (1792). Nepeta glechoma Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 485 (1834). 



Cedronella canariensis Willd. ; Webb & Berth., Phyt. Canar. 3 :87 (1836-1850) . 

 Dracocephahtm canariense L., Sp. PL 594 (1753), type loc. Canary Isls. C. tri- 

 phylla Moench, Meth. 411 (1794). Herb-of-Gilead. Sweet-scented herb 2 to 3 

 feet high, woody at base; leaves trifoliolate, the leaflets oblong-lanceolate, serrate ; 

 flowers in oblong spikes ; corolla blue. — Garden plant, native of the Canary Islands, 

 adventive at San Francisco : Twin Peaks, Alice King 3590 in 1914 ; Mud Lake, 

 Parkside, Alice King in 1914. 



8. BRUNELLAL. 



Low perennial herbs, the nearly simple stems terminated by a short-spieate or 

 subcapitate inflorescence, each whorl composed of 6 subsessile flowers and subtended 

 by broad chartaceous floral bracts. Calyx reticulate-veiny, membranous or char- 

 taceous, 2-lipped ; upper lip truncate with 3 cusps ; lower 2-cleft; lips closed in fruit. 

 Corolla-throat inflated and tube more or less exserted; upper lip erect, galeate, 

 entire; lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe hanging downward. Stamens 4, in pairs 

 under the upper lip, each filament or those of the upper pair with a small tooth 

 below the anther. Nutlets smooth and glabrous. — Species 6, 5 European, the fol- 

 lowing in all continents. ( Old German breune or braune, an affection of the throat, 

 which Self Heal was used to cure.) 



1. B. vulgaris L. Self Heal. Stem 4 to 10 inches high, hirsute or hirsutu- 

 lose, especially at the nodes or just below the heads, sometimes glabrate ; leaf-blades 

 lanceolate to ovate or ovate-oblong, crenate to serrate, glabrous or scantily puberu- 

 lent, 1 to 3 inches long, petioled ; bracts short-ciliate; corolla violet, pinkish or laven- 

 der, exceeding the purplish calj-x ; middle lobe of lower lip with setaceous-incised 

 margin. 



Moist woodland borders, meadows and thickets, 25 to 7400 feet : throughout 

 cismontane California except in the dry valleys; rare in transmontane deserts. 

 June-Sept. 



Geog. note. — In California the species is mostly represented by the Tar. kanceolata Fer., in 

 which the leaves are mainly lanceolate to oblong and gradually narrowed or cuneate at base, and 

 averaging one-third as broad as long, as opposed to the typical European plant with ovate leaves 

 rounded at base, averaging one-half as broad as long. But broad leaves may be found in indige- 

 nous California plants, or even on individuals displaying broad leaves at base and lanceolate leaves 

 above (Donner Lake, Sonne). Contrariwise, plants with lanceolate leaves are often found in 

 European countries. The following localities, in the main, represent the var. lanceoi.ata Fer., 

 though some, in collusion with intergrades, approximate the species. S. Cal. : Palomar Mt. ; Mt. 

 San Jacinto ; Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mts., J. Grinnell 104 ; Victorville, Jfohave Desert, Parish 

 10,583. Coast Ranges: Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz Jtts., E. A. Walker 827 ; Yountville (e.), Napa 

 Valley, Jepson 9975 ; betw. Guernerille and Monte Rio, Russian River, H. Ferguson : Dimmick 

 Park, sw. Mendocino Co., Jepson 17,680; Ft. Bragg, ilatheu's 54; Fish Camp. ne. Mendocino Co., 

 Cronemiller 679 ; Eureka, Tracy 16,720 ; Trinity River Valley at Willow Creek, Tracy 15,370 ; Rush 

 Creek, Trinity Co., rates 421 ; Smith River towii, Del Norte Co., Jepson 9348 ; Sisson, Siskiyou Co., 

 Jepson 14,898. Sierra Nevada: Giant Forest, Tulare Co., Neiclon 45; JfcKinley Grove, Fresno 

 Co., A. L. Grant 1191 ; Hamilton sta.. betw. Big Oak Flat and Crocker sta., A. L. Grant 825 ; Brush 

 Creek, Butte Co., Conger; Martin Sprs., Eagle Lake, Lassen Co., Brown ^ JTieslander 23 ; Morley 

 sta., Shasta Co., Baker Sr Nutting. In the var. atropueptjkea Fer., the often purplish bracts are 



