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or chamise, or at times becomes dominant. Near the bridge over Alamo Creek, tributary of the 

 Cuyama River, it dominates a vpest slope of 40 to 45 per cent gradient, — a large colony with oak 

 scrub scattered through it. 



The two upper stamens in the flower are reduced to short sterile filaments inserted in the 

 sinuses between the corolla lips. The corolla-tube inside is marked by a dense ring of spreading 

 hairs above the middle. The upper lip of the corolla is erect, notched, the lower lip cleft into 3 

 linear-oblong lobes. 



Locs. — Big Sur River, Monterey coast, S. N. Wylcoff ; Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo Co., 

 Jones; Santa Maria (5 mi. e. ), Jepson 12,148; betw. Zaca Lake and Los Olivos, Santa Barbara Co., 

 Gondii : Santa Barbara, Jepson 12,128; Piru Creek, Ventura Co., Wolf 2013; Castaic sta. (mts. 

 n. of), n. Los Angeles Co., Jepson 8928; San Francisquito Canon, Parish 1889; Soledad Canon, 

 Peirson 412; Sespe Caiion, Ventura Co., Peirson 5769; Conejo Pass, Santa Monica Mts., Jepson 

 12,645; Raucho Santa Ana, near Anaheim, Peirson 7349. 



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

 bertia nivea Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 313 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas. Audibertiella nivea 

 Briq., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2:73 (1894). Eamona nivea Briq., I.e. 440 (1894) ; not S. nivea Thuub. 

 (1794). 



12. S. carnosa Dougl. Low broad shrub 1 to 21/0 feet high, IVo to 5 feet broad ; 

 2 or 3-year old stems with the leaves fascicled at the nodes or crowded on the short 

 branchlets, the branchlets finely canescent ; leaf -blades obovate, obtuse or refuse, 

 entire (or sparsely crenulate ) , finely tomentulose-eanescent, dotted with red glands, 

 not rugose, 3 to 6 lines long, all except the uppermost gradually tapering into a 

 petiole about as long ; branchlets with 2 or 3 or 4 flower-whorls, often paniculately 

 disposed ; bracts and sessile floral leaves obovate or oval, the innermost spatulate, 

 pubescent, ciliate, tinged with rose or purple, often equaling the calyces and com- 

 pletely investing them; calyx turbinate, its upper lip broad, truncatish, with 3 short 

 teeth, the lobes of lower lip obtuse, mucronate, the cleft between its 2 lobes much 

 deeper than between the lips ; corolla deep blue, 3 to 5 lines long, its upper lip about 

 1/2 as long as the tube, cleft, its lobes erect; middle lobe of lower lip rather larger 

 than the lateral, erosulate, notched at middle, the lateral lobes curving and approxi- 

 mate to it so as to form a shallow bowl ; stameiLS much exserted, the filaments with 

 or without a tooth at the joint, the upper pair short, sterile. 



Arid mountain slopes and deserts, almost wholly transmontane, 2200 to 8000 

 feet : eastern Plumas Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Washington and Idaho. May- 

 June. 



Locs. — Petes Valley, Lassen Co., J. Grinnell; Portola, Plumas Co., K. Brandegee ; Soldier 

 Creek, Warner Range, e. Modoc Co., L. S. Smilh 929 ; Anderson Ferry, Klamath River, near Treka, 

 Butler 177. 



Var. pilosa (Gray) Jepson. Upper part of stem and entire inflorescence distinctly glan- 

 dular-villous or hirsutulose-pubeseent ; leaf -blades mostly spatulate to suborbicular or flabelli- 

 form, 2 to 5 (or 8) lines long, gradually or abrujitly contracted into a petiole % to as long; 

 flower-whorls 2 to 5, more closely approximate than in the species ; bracts shorter than calyces, 

 not obscuring them, pilose-ciliate, the upper side thinly pilose; upper calyx-lip short, rounded, 

 emarginate, the 2 lower (lateral) lobes lanceolate. — Open deserts and broad caiion floors, 2000 

 to 5500 feet: Mohave Desert and its bordering ranges; Conchilla Range at east end of the San 

 Bernardino Mts. ; north through Inj'o and Kern Cos. to Mono Co. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Arrastre Canon, near Soledad Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 392 ; Rock Creek (Ery- 

 thea 2:62) ; Swartout Caiion, San Gabriel Mts., Parish 1909; Cajou Pass (desert side), Jepson 

 6132 ; Rock Sprs., Arrastre Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Palmer 358 ; Lost Horse Caiion, n. side 

 Conchilla Range, Clary 1584; Waterloo Wash, Old Dad Mts., Jepson 20,526; Mitchell Caverns, 

 Providence Mts., Jepson 18,219; New York Mts., Jepson 5435; Summit road sta., betw. Halloran 

 Sprs. and Windmill road sta., e. Mohave Desert, Jepson 15,807; Hanaupah Canon, Panamint 

 Range, Jepson 6957 ; Surprise Caiion, Panamint Range, E. S. Ferris 7975 ; Argus Mts., Inyo Co., 

 Purpti.<: 5414; Mazurka Caiion, Inyo Jits., Marh Kerr; Erskine Creek, Piute Mts., Kern Co., Pur- 

 pus 5i5S; Walker Pass (e. side), Jepson 19,876; Topaz, Mono Co. (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 25:132). 



Refs. — Salvia CARNOS.^. Dougl.; Benth., Bot. Reg. sub t. 14G9 (1831), type loc. plains of the 

 Columbia River near Priests Rapid, Douglas; Jepson, Man. 869 (1925). Andibertia incana 

 Benth.; Lindl., Bot. Reg. t. 1469 (1831), based on Salvia carnosa Dougl. in herb. Atidibertiella 

 incana Briq., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 : 73 (1894) ; not Salvia incana Mart. & Gal. (1844). Var. pilosa 

 Jepson, Man. 870 (1925). Audibertia incana var. pilosa Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 2:461 (1886), type 

 loc. Mohave Desert edge of San Bernardino Mts., Parish. S. pilosa Merriam, N. Am. Fauna 7:322 

 (1893), in part. Eamona pilosa Abrams, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6:443 (1910). S. carnosa subsp. 

 pilosa Epling, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 25:133 (1938). <S. carnosa subsp. argeniea Epling, Ann. Mo. 



