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Bot. Gard. 25:131 (1938), as to California plants, the name based on AudibertieUa arqentea 

 %db., Bull. Torr. Club 36 : 083 (1909), type loc. Mokiak Pass, Ariz., Palmer 395. S. carnosasuhsy. 

 gilmanii Epling, I.e. 132, type loe. Pinon Mesa, Wild Rose Caiion, Panamint Mts., Epling 4- Gilman. 



13. S. pachyphylla Epling. Woody at base, 1 to 2 or 3 feet high ; herbage mi- 

 croscopically pubenilent or siibglabrous, the leaves of the season green, the old 

 leaves gray-scurfy ; leaf-blades obovate, or oblauceolate to oblong, obtuse, thickish, 

 not rugose, i/o to I14 inches long, narrowed at base to a mostly short petiole; 

 branches bearing 2 to 4 distinct flower-whorls, or the whorls aJDprosimate and 

 capitate or spicate, 1 to 1% inches broad ; bracts elliptic, membranous, purple, 6 to 

 9 lines long; corolla blue, 9 to 12 lines long, its lips relatively short, the middle lobe 

 of lower lip erosulate or laciniate, the tube with a dense ring of hairs on its lower 

 part, the ring sharply defined below, thinning out above into a broad zone of scat- 

 tered hairs. 



Gravelly slopes under pines, junipers or among pinons, 5000 to 8800 feet : San 

 Bernardino, San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains. Northern Lower California. 

 July-Aug. 



Geog. note. — Salvia pachyphylla occupies a natural phytogeographic area in the Peninsular 

 Eange of Lower California and the northerly extension of that range in the high mountains of 

 Southern California. Its foliage recalls that of the large-leaved form of Salvia carnosa in Idaho 

 and Washington, but the bush here described under Epling's name of S. pachyphylla is different 

 in aspect from the smaller-leaved form of Salvia carnosa which inhabits the Mohave Desert. Salvia 

 pachyphylla is closely related to Salvia carnosa ; regarded as a distinct unit it is lacking in techni- 

 cal characters. Many competent botanists have evaluated it as a variety of Salvia carnosa. The 

 two are, however, mutually exclusive in their territory. Salvia carnosa (referring to its variety 

 pilosa) is wholly transmontane in Southern California and widely distributed over the desert mesas 

 and desert mountains. Salvia pachyphylla is intramontane. While restricted to the high sierran 

 range of Southern California, it is, nevertheless, to an approximate degree, transmontane, that is, 

 it inhabits the desert slopes or is found mainly on high summits under the desert influences. The 

 following stations are cited. San Bernardino Mts.: Holcomb Valley (Erythea 6:91); Cactus 

 Flats, /. Grinnell 63 ; Mt. Sugarloaf , Mum 10,779 ; Seven Oaks, B. J. Smith 11. San Jacinto Mts. : 

 Hidden Lake, C. V. Meyer 568. Santa Eosa Mts.: near Vandeventer Plat, Duran 3490. 



lief s. — Salvia pachyphylla Epling ; Munz, Man. 445 (1935) . Audibertia incana var. pachy- 

 stiichya Gray, Sj-n. PI. ed. 2, 2:401 (1886), type loc. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish. 

 A. pachy.itachya Parish, Erythea 6:91 (1898). Samona pacJiystachya Hel. Muhl. 1:4 (1900) ; 

 not S. pachystachya Trauttv. (1808). S. carnosa var. compacta Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 1:111 

 (1902) ; Jepson, Man. 870 (1925). S. compacta Munz, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 26:22 (1927) ; not S. 

 compacta Ktze. (1891). 



14. S. mohavensis Greene. Mohave Salvia. Low shrub (1 to 2 feet high) ; 

 herbage puberulcnt ; leaf -blades oblong to ovate, acute or obtuse, rugose above, 

 deeply reticulate-venulose below, crenulate, 3 to 8 lines long, the petioles % to % 

 as long and slender; flowers usually in solitary terminal heads ; bracts ovate to ellip- 

 tic, mucronate, glandular, membranous or whitish, reticulate-venulose, 6 to 11 lines 

 long ; corolla blue, its lips of about equal length ; upper lip shortly cleft, the lower 

 with its 3 lobes about equal, all entire or merely erosulate. 



Rocky slopes of desert ranges, often among pinons, 2000 to 4000 (or 7000) feet : 

 Mohave Desert ; mountains on north side of the Colorado Desert. East to Nevada 

 and Arizona. May-July. 



Locs. — Mohave Desert: Black Ilawk Mine, near Victorville, Jones; Aztec Spr., Ord Mts. 

 (nw. base), J'e«(Z<7e 1605; Twenty-nine Palms, B. D. Stark 1534; Camp Cady (mts. near), Daggett 

 region, S. B. tf- W.F. Parish 1308; Cima (5 mi. s.), B. D. S/ar7.^ 2250 ; Fountain Canon. Providence 

 Mts., Mary Beal 361; Piute Creek, ne. of Goffs, Wilson 72; Turtle Mts. (Bull. Torr. Club 49:37). 

 Colorado Desert (n. side) : Quail Sprs., Conchilla Mts., Mnnz 5235; Eagle Mts., Clary 652. 



Refs. — Salvia moha\t,nsis Greene, Pitt. 2:235 (1892) ; Jepson, Man. 870 (1925). Audiber- 

 tia capitata Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 7:387 (1868), type loc. summit of Providence Mts., Cooper; 

 not S. capitata Schlecht. (1853). AudibertieUa capitata Briq., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2:73 (1894). 

 Eamnna capitata Briq., I.e. 440 (1894). 



1:5. S. eremostachya Jepson. Shrub 2 to 2^4 feet high, the old stems with 

 whitish bark; herbage hirsute or hirsutulose with spreading hairs; leaves rather 

 evidently dimorphic, those of the flowering branches with leaf -blades lanceolate, 



