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sparsely short-ciliate or glabrous, the corollas dark or blackish-purple ; it is a coastal form : betw. 

 Jenner and Ft. Ross, Sonoma Co., Merle Bandall; Pt. Reyes, Davy 6768; Crystal Springs Lake, 

 San Mateo Co., Elmer 4206. Plants of gardens and to\\ii enclosures are probably direct introduc- 

 tions from Europe and thus true Brunella vulgaris. Such introductions are, however, often not 

 readily separable from the indigenous var. laneeolata, but in the north coast region (teste J. P. 

 Tracy J field distinction between the two forms is usually evident. 



Kefs. — Brunella vulgaris L., Sp. PI. 600 (1753), type European; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 456 (lyOl), ed. 2, 356 (1911), Man. 807 (1925). Var. lanceolata Fer., Rhod. 15:183 (1913) ; 

 Jepson, Man. 867 (1925). B. vnlgarish lanceolata'Ba.Tioa, FLPhila.. 2:37 (1818), type loe. Phila- 

 delphia, Pa, Var. atropurpurea Fer., Rhod. 15:186 (1913), type loc. Santa Rosa, Seller 5639; 

 Jepson, Man. 867 (1925). 



9. SALVIA L. Sage 



Herbs or low shrubs with the flowers usually in whorls, the whorls forming ter- 

 minal spikes or borne singly as terminal heads, or sometimes the flowers disposed in 

 thyrsoid panicles. Floral leaves mostly reduced to bracts. Calyx 2-lipped, the 

 upper lip entire or 3-tootlied, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla witli the upper lijj erect, 

 straight, concave or falcate, sometimes obsolete; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe often emarginate, cleft or fringed. Stamens inserted in the throat of 

 the corolla; lower pair fertile; upper pair obsolete or represented by sterile fila- 

 ments or vestiges ; anther-cells widely separated on a long filament-like connective 

 longer than the filament itself and jointed to it by the middle or near one end ; con- 

 nective at its upper end (under the upper lip of the corolla) bearing a perfect 

 anther-cell, at its lower end a reduced or deformed anther-cell or the anther-cell 

 obsolete. — In some species the stamen filament, while seemingly simple, is really 

 jointed, thus indicating the presence of the connective, the lower end of which some- 

 times projects at the joint as a subulate point but only rarely bears a trace of an 

 anther-cell. — Species about 550, all continents. (Latin salveo, to save, some of the 

 species being officinal.) 



A. Filament of the stamen bearing a filament-like connective, the upper arm of the connective 



bearing an anther-ceU, the lower arm bearing an anther or a 

 reduced anther-cell or rudiment. 



Leaves spine-tipped and spine-toothed; herbage white-woolly; bracts exceeding the c.ilyces and 

 often much surpassing the flowers. 



Thistle-like annual ; leaves 3 to 12 inches long, forming a basal rosette ; widely distributed 



1. 5. carduacea. 

 Bushes; leaves % to 1% inches long, cauline; narrow endemics of the deserts. 



Stems and leaves densely white-tomentose; calj'x resembling a woolly peUet, the teeth 



almost obscured by the woolly covering; Death Valley 2. S. funerea. 



Stems white and leaves green, glandular-puberulent ; calyx finely but somewhat obscurely 



glandular-puberulent, the spine-tipped teeth prominent; Colorado Desert 



3. S. greatae. 



Leaves not spiny; herbage green; bracts shorter than the calyces; widely distributed annual 



4. i9. col lull bariae. 



B. Filament of the stamen apparently simple, really jointed, the upper anther-bearing portion 



being one arm of the connective, the lower arm obsolete or reduced to a slender 

 thread or subulate point; leaves entire or merely serrate. 



1. Corolla crimson; herb; stems erect, vert leatt, the lower leaves cordate at base; 



COROLLA 114 TO IVa INCHES LONG 5. S. spathacea. 



2. Corolla NOT crimson; shrubs or bushes or at i>east woody at base (no. San herb). 



a. Bracts more or less heriaceotis, at least not colored; all cismontane except no. 8 ; (no. G is also 



on west side of the deserts). 



Corolla-tube shorter than lower lip; inflorescence thyrsoid-panieulate ; floral leaves and bracts 



small ; corolla white ; S. Cal 6. S. apiana. 



Corolla-tube longer than lower lip. 



Corolla white, 6 to 10 lines long; bracts more or less pointed; S. Cal. 



Bracts and calyx-teeth merely acute or cuspidate; flower-whorls solitary or few; leaf- 

 blades acute at base; cismontane San Diego Co 7. S. clcvelandii. 



Bracts and calyx-teeth long-aristate; flower-whorls 5 to 10; leaf -blades truncatish or 

 rounded at base ; w. side Colorado Desert : 8. S. vaseyi. 



