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Ramona polystachya Greene, Pitt. 2:235 (1892). Audibertiella polysiachya Briq., Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss.2:73 (1894) ; not S. polystachya Ortega (1800). S. caii/oniira Jepsou, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 

 1, 4C0 (1901), not S. californica Bdg., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 2:197 (1889). Var. compaota 

 Munz, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 20:25 (1927), type loc. Morongo Wash, Riverside Co., Munz 4- John- 

 ston 517U. 



7. S. clevelandii Greene. Jim Sage. Shrub 1 to 2 feet high; herbage canes- 

 cent, or the leaves white-tomentulose beneath; leaf -blades oblong or the upper 

 oblaneeolate-oblong, obtuse, rugulose above, % to ly^ inches long; flowering 

 branches peduncle-like (the leaves remote and reduced) , bearing a solitary terminal 

 head-like flower-whorl or sometimes 2 or 3 approximate whorls, or sometimes the 

 peduncle branched, each branch with a solitary terminal whorl ; bracts ovate or 

 oblong, mucronate or abruptly short-pointed, viscid-pubescent; calyx viscid-pubes- 

 cent, the lower teeth short and subulate, the upper lip entire and cuspidate-tipped ; 

 corolla white (or blue-violet) , 7 to 9 lines long, well exserted from the gibbous calyx. 



Chaparral slopes, 100 to 3500 feet : cismontane San Diego Co. South to northern 

 Lower California. May-July. 



Locs. — Rineon grade (summit), C. V. Meyer 792; Valley Center, C. V. Meyer 246; Witch 

 Creek, Alderson ; Santa Maria near Ramona, Parish 434; Descanso, Parish 4424; San Diego, 

 Spencer 130 ; Cottonwood grade near Potrero. Ahrams 3744. 



Refs. — Salvia clevelandii Greene, Pitt. 2:236 (1892); Jepson, Man. 871 (1925). Audi- 

 bertia clcvelandii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:76 (1SV4), type loc. mts. behind San Diego, at about 

 2200 ft., Cleveland (the precise locality Ballena, 7 mi. e. of Ramona, — ma. note by Cleveland). 

 Audihertiella clevelandii Briq., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2:73 (1894). Hatnona clcvelandii Briq., I.e. 

 440 (1894). 



Salvia palmeri Greene, Pitt. 2:236 (1892) ; Jepson, Man. 871 (1925). Audibertia palmeri 

 Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:601 (1876), type loc. Tighes ranch, near Ballena, San Diego Co., Palmer. Audi- 

 bertiella palmeri Briq., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2:73 (1894). Samona palmeri Briq., I.e. 440 (1894). 

 Palmer Sage. Shrubby, 3 to 5 feet high ; leaf -blades oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 acute, tomcutulose-canescent, 1 to 2 (or 3) inches long; flower-whorls remote, disposed in panicles 

 or sometimes in virgate spikes, the inflorescence leafless or with very much reduced leaves; bracts 

 oblong or lanceolate, slender-cuspidate or acuminate, purple within, the color obscured by the 

 pubescence without, 3 to 6 lines long ; calyx slightly inflated, the throat nearly closed, very oblique, 

 the upper lip acute, 1 to 3-mucronate, the very short lower teeth cuspidate; corolla white, 5 to 7 

 lines long, the tube well exserted. — Chaparral slopes, 100 to 3500 feet: cismontane San Diego Co. 

 June July. 



In its characters. Salvia palmeri stands as an intermediate between Salvia clevelandii and 

 Salvia apiana and has been regarded by many field botanists as a hybrid between these two 

 species. It is most frequently found in association with Salvia clevelandii and Salvia apiana. 

 It occurs at the following stations : Tighes ranch betw. Ramona and Ballena, T. Brandegee ; Des- 

 canso grade, K. Brandegee; Alpine, Epling; La JoUa (Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 26:26). For note on 

 a plant cultivated by 0. B. Wolf, see Raneho Santa Ana Bot. Gard. Rep. 9:35 (1939). 



8. S. vaseyi Parish. Shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, the flowering branches virgate ; 

 stems puberuleut, the leaves white with a close dense scurf and a minute puberu- 

 lence ; leaf-blades round-ovate to quadratish-ovate, truncatish or very rounded or 

 even subcordate at base, obtusish or subacute at apex, 1 to 1% inches long, the 

 petioles 1^ to % a.s long ; upper leaves obtuse or subacute at base, only the lower 

 leaves rugose-venulose; flower- whorls 5 to 10 in an unbranehed spike, the whorls 

 remote; bracts and calyx-teeth long-aristate ; corolla white, slender, 6 to 10 lines 

 long; upper lip short, notched, its lobes rounded; lower lip longer than upper, 

 spreading, its middle lobe developed into a transversely oblong structure which is 

 notched and which nearly conceals the short lateral lobes. 



Rocky alluvial terraces or bajadas about desert canons, 600 to 3000 feet: west 

 side of Colorado Desert. South to northern Lower California. Apr.-June. 



Flower note. — The stamens in Salvia vaseyi are very erect and very conspicuous. The short 

 upper lip of the corolla is erect ; though short it is much longer than in Salvia apiana. The corolla- 

 tube much surpasses the calvx, while in Salvia apiana the corolla-tube is equaled by the calyx. 

 The stamens are inserted low on the borders of palate of lower lip, that is near the corolla-tube, 

 while in Salvia apiana they are inserted well out on the palate of the lower lip, some distance from 

 the corolla-tube. 



