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Jolon, Monterey Co., Jepson 14,889 ; Pacific Grove, Jepson 9754 ; Saratoga, Santa Clara Co., Jepson 

 5625; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 3121; Mt. Tamalpais, Newlon 85; Mt. St. Helena: Weldon Canon, Vaca 

 Mta., Jepson 14,888; Eeiff, Knoxville Eidge, Jepson 19,004; Lower Lake, Lake Co., Jepson 18,906. 

 Sierra Nevada: El Portal, Merced River; Alabaster Cave, Eldorado Co., Sonne ; Newcastle, Placer 

 Co., W. TF. MacTcie; Nevada City, W. I. Follett; Forest ranch, Butte Co., W. I. Follett 43. 



Var. wallacei Gray. Lower cauline leaves truncate at base; calyx in anthesis narrow- 

 based, villous, its lobes linear- or narrow-lanceolate. — San Gabriel Mts. (Mt. WOson, Peirson 177) ; 

 Santa Monica Mts. (Los Alisos Caiion, Epling) ; Santa Barbara Isls. (Santa Catalina Isl., 

 McClatchie ; Santa Eosa Isl., T. Brandegee). 



Eefs. — Sphacele calycina Bentli., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 568 (1834), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 403 (1901), ed. 2, 362 (1911), Man. 876, fig. 823 (1925). LepecUnia 

 calycina Epling; Munz, Man. 447 (1935). S. caly- 

 cina var. glabella Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:598 (1876), type 

 loc. Santa Barbara Co., Peckham; Jepson, Man. 876 

 (1925). Lcpechinia calycina var. glabella Epling, 

 I.e. S. gracilis Eastw., Zoe 5:83 (1900), type loc. 

 hills betw. King City and Jolon, Santa Lucia Mts., 

 Eastwood. S. calycina var. gracilis Jepson, Man. 

 876 (1925). S. hlochmanae Eastw., BuL. Torr. Club 

 30:495 (1903), type loc. Pozo, s. San Luis Obispo 

 Co., Eastxoood. Var. wallacbi Gray, Bot. Cal. 1 :598 

 (1876), type loc. near Los Angeles, Wallace ; Jepson, 

 Man. 876 (1925). S. fragrans Greene, Pitt. 1:38 

 (1887), type loc. Santa Cruz Isl., Greene. S. cordi- 

 folia Gdgr., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 65:68 (1918), tyj^e 

 loc. Claremont, C. F. Baler 5061 (not Benth.; DC, 

 Prodr. 12:257, — 1848). Lepechinia calycina var. 

 wallacei Epling; Munz, Man. 447 (1935). 



15. SATUREIAL. 



Perennial herbs or slender-stemmed 

 shrubs. Flowers few or solitary in the axils 

 of the upper leaves. Calyx tubular, 10 to 

 15-nerved, with 5 acuminate teeth of nearly 

 equal length but sometimes diifering; in 

 breadth. Corolla 2-lipped, the tube straight. 

 Stamens 4, all anther-bearing, the lower pair 

 longer than the upper. Nutlets smooth. — 

 Species about 130, all continents except Aus- 

 tralia. (The ancient Latin name used by 

 Pliny.) 

 Calyx-teeth spinose; corolla large (1% to 1% inches long), strongly 2-lipped, orange-red; style 



glabrous 1. S. mimuloides. 



Calyx-teeth not spinose; corolla small (4 to 7 lines long), white. 



Flowers commonly clustered, borne on bractless pedicels less than 1 line long ; calyx markedly 

 2-lipped ; style sparsely hairy on one side toward the summit ; leaves toraentose 



beneath 2. S. chandleri. 



Flowers solitary, borne on bracted pedicels 2 to 8 lines long; calyx not 2-lipped, equally 

 5-lobed ; style glabrous; leaves puberulent or glabrous 3. S. douglasii. 



1. S. mimuloides Briq. (Fig. 436.) Stems slender, villous, 2 to 5 feet high; 

 leaf -blades ovate, serrate, pubescent, 1% to 3 inches long, the petioles about \^ as 

 long; calyx 6 to 8 lines long, its teeth aristate, spreading in age; axillary clusters 

 1 to 5-flowered, the pedicels V2 to IY2 inches long; 3 upper calyx-teeth broader and 

 united slightly higher than the 2 lower ; corolla orange-red or pale crimson, villous 

 without, 1^8 to 1% inches long, very Mimulus-like; upper lip erect, cleft, bearing 

 a cobwebby-villous patch within; lower lip spreading, its middle lobe much longer 

 than the lateral ones; tube within at base very nectariferous; nutlets somewhat 

 flattened, 3-nerved, retained in the calyx in age by the ring of hairs at the mouth. 



Rich alluvium of creek banks in caiion bottoms and on mountain slopes, 1000 to 

 4500 feet : ilonterey Co. to Los Angeles Co. July-Oct. 



Fig. 436. Satureia mimuwides Briq. 

 a, flowering branchiet, X % ; 6, leaf, X % ; 

 c, calyx spread open, X 1% ; d, corolla 

 spread open, X 1 ; e, pistil, X 1. 



