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prickles, the prickle representing the middle tooth wanting (or very minute) ; 

 lower lip very much shorter, the teeth represented by 2 shorter prickles ; corolla 

 blue, little exceeding the calyx, its upper lip emargiuate, its lower lip with small 

 lateral lobes and a larger somewhat 2-lobed middle one. 



Mesas, desert washes, hillslopes and gravel benches of caiions, 50 to 5700 feet : 

 Coast Ranges from Mendocino Co. to San Luis Obispo Co., including also the foot- 

 hills on west side of the Sacramento Valley from Tehama Co. to Solano Co. ; Marys- 

 ville Buttes; Sierra Nevada foothills from Calaveras Co. to Kern Co.; Inyo Co.; 

 Mohave and Colorado deserts ; eismontane Southern 

 California. South to Lower California, east to Ari- 

 zona and Nevada. Mar. -May. 



Geog. note. — Throughout the South Coast Eange country 

 and in cismontajie Southern California, Salvia columbariae, 

 the nutlets of which form an important element in the pinole 

 of the native tribes, is a common and widely distributed spring- 

 time annual, where it tends to favor gravelly slopes or flats or 

 broken ground. It is also distributed extensively throughout 

 the Mohave Desert and grows luxuriantly in Owens Valley, 

 Inyo County. Species which have so wide an area, ranging 

 through several different climatic regions without change of 

 character, possess an especial interest. On the Essex plain, 

 stretching towards the Mid Hills in the eastern Mohave Desert, 

 Salvia columbariae is, for example, a common species in the 

 annual flora. Yet these plants of the desert flats are in aspect, 

 habit and inflorescence indistinguishatjle from plants growing 

 in the North Coast Eanges on Bartlett Mountain at about 4000 

 feet or on the margins of the Redwood belt near Ukiah, a 

 region separated by more than one climatic area from the east- 

 ern deserts. 



In the Sacramento Valley region Salvia columbariae has 

 been little known. In all probability it does not inhabit any- 

 where the proper flood-plain loam-soil floors of the Sacramento 

 Valley, but is doubtless more common in the bordering foot- 

 hills than the records show. Up to the year 19.35 it was known 

 by collections from only three stations, the Marysville Buttes 

 and two localities in the foothills on the western rim of the val- 

 ley, namely Rosewood in Tehama County and Dunns Peak 

 near Vacaville. Since then a few stations have been added in 

 the inner Coast Range foothills, but thus far no definite local- 

 ity has been reported in the Sierra Nevada foothills from 

 Calaveras County to Shasta County. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Bartlett Mt., n. Lake Co., Jepson 

 18,916; ITkiah, Bolander 3884; Berkeley, Biolctti; Mt. Diablo, 



Jepson 9G61; Mt. Hamilton (Erythea" 1 :9.5) ; Paicines, San Benito Co., Jepson 12,401; Carmel 

 Bay, Ehner 4891; San Luis Mt., San Luis Oliispo Co., Summers 668; Diablo Range, sw. Fresno 

 Co., Jepson 15,396. Foothills on west side of the Sacramento Valley: Rosewood, sw. of Red Bluff, 

 Jepson 14,942; Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Virginia L. Bailey ; Leesville (ridge e.), sw. Colusa Co., 

 Hoover 3228 ; Dunns Peak, Vaea Mts., Jepson 14,944. Marysville Buttes : South Butte, Jepson 

 14,943. Sierra Nevada foothills: below San Andreas, ace. L. S. Smith : Knights Ferry, Stanislaus 

 Co., Sanford 170; foothills in Mariposa Co. (Zoe 3:33) ; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare Co., 

 H. P. Kcllcy; Bodfish, Kern Co., Jepson. Cismontane S. Cal.: Purisima Hills, Lompoc, Jepson 

 12,659; Sycamore Caiion, Santa Inez Mts., Jepson 9128; Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Santa Cata- 

 lina islands (Zoe 1:143) ; San Clemente Isl., if ell Murbargcr 130; Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 335 ; San Bernardino, Parish; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King ; Aguanga, sw. Riverside Co., 

 Jepson 19,205; Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., E. Ferguson 8; Mt. Soledad, near La JoUa, Newlon 

 324. Inyo Co.: Silver Canon, White Mts., Heller 8340; Bishop, W. A. Chalfant ; Johnson Canon, 

 Panamint Range, Jepson 19,631; Slate Range, Allison Krames. Mohave Desert: Old Dad Mts., 

 Jepson 20,422 ; Saltdale, Jepson 19,514 ; Coolgardie, n. of Barstow, Jepscm, 4825 ; Antelope Valley, 

 Davy 2662. Colorado Desert: Cottonwood Spr., Eagle Mts., Jepson; Indian Wells, Coachella VaJ- 

 ley, Newlon 431; San Felipe Valley, Jepson; Vallecito, c. San Diego Co., Jepson. 



Refs. — Salvia cohjmbaeiae Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 302 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 459 (1901), ed. 2, 359 (1911), Man. 868, fig. 814 (1925). 



The two following species are introduced aliens ; the filaments of the stamens are very short 

 and the connectives long with unequal arms ; the short lower arms are conspicuous, dilated and 

 joined at tip in a pair : 



Fig. 427. Salvia columbariae 

 Benth. a, haljit, X Vi; b, fl., 

 X IV2 ; c, stamen, X 5. 



