424 



LABIATAE 



lander, Cat. PI. Vic. S. F. 22) ; Sausalito, Congdon ; Inverness, Marin Co., Jepson 9805 ; betw. Fort 

 Bragg and DeHaven, Jepson 14,956; Ferndale, Humboldt Co., If. S. Balcer 124; Eureka, Tracy 

 16,726. 



Refs. — Stachts chamissonis Benth., Linnaea 6:S0 (1831), type from Cal., Chamisno ; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 458 (1901), ed. 2, 358 (1911), Man. 877 (1925). S. flaccida Eastw., Bull. 

 Torr. Club 29:80 (1902), type loc. Mendocino, H. E. Brown 836, apparently an ecological form of 

 deep shade; not S. flaccida Fer. (1900). 



2. S. albens Gray. White Stachys. Stems erect, strict, 2 to 5 (or 10) feet 

 high; herbage white-tomentose, or soon subgiabrate and green; leaf-blades ovate 

 to lanceolate, crenate, cordate or truncatish at base (at least the lower), IV2 to 4 



(or 6) inches long, sessile or .subsessile, the 

 very lowest mostly short-petioled; whorls sev- 

 eral-flowered; spikes 3 to 6 (or 12) inches long, 

 dense, with 4 to 9 whorls or sometimes 10 to 21 

 whorls, the lowermost whorls usually distinct, 

 sometimes all the whorls distinct ; calyces 

 often somewhat yellow-gi'een, the teeth a little 

 over half as long as the tube, awn-pointed; 

 corolla white, 4 to 5 lines long, the tube 3 to 

 314 lines long, little exceeding the calyx, bear- 

 ing within at the middle a ring of hairs ; ring 

 very oblique, the tube not hairy (or scarcely) 

 above or below the ring; nutlets sparsely to 

 densely tuberculate. 



Along rivulets, about springs in theory 

 hills, in valley marshes and mountain mead- 

 ows, 5 to 8200 feet : inner Coast Range from 

 Lake Co. to eastern San Luis Obispo Co.; 

 Great Valley delta ; Sierra Nevada from Plu- 

 mas Co. to Tulare Co. ; Inyo Co. ; Teliachapi 

 Mts. ; western Mohave Desert ; eismontane 

 Southern California. June-Aug. 



Field note. — The plants of Stachys albens are, 

 when young, extremely white-woolly with an almost 

 glistening whiteness, especially in the form which is 

 found about springs near the heads of open canons in 

 the Coast Eanges. Very shortly, however, the wool is 

 partially or even at length wholly deciduous and there 

 is then revealed beneath, notably on the leaves, the 

 short-hirsute hairs, often in dense ranks, which have been masked by the outer layer of wool 

 The use of incomplete material may, on this account, lead to misdetermmations. The altitudinal 

 range of this species is very remarkable. Found near sea-level at 5 feet, as m the Suisun Marshes, 

 it attains 8200 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada (Coyote Pass and Volcano Creek in Tulare 

 County, and on Mt. Piiios in northern Ventura County). The plants m the marshes of the Great 

 Valley delta may grow to 10 feet high in the rich peat soil or frequently they have a loose or 

 spreading habit quite different from the trim ereetness of these plants m the foothills or at middle 

 altitudes in the Sierra Nevada ; their racemes are often extremely long, loose and flexuous, as com- 

 pared with the short-virgate racemes of the plants of the dry hills. 



Locs.— Inner Coast Range: Bear Creek, n. Lake Co., M. S. Baher 3065c; Knoxville Ridge, se. 

 Lake Co., Jepson 14,976; betw. Samuels Sprs. and Aetna Sprs., e. Napa Co., Jepson 14,970; near 

 Mountain House, Altamont Pass, Jepson 14,973 (close match for the Xantus type as compared at 

 Gray Herb, in 1896) ; Pacheco Pass; Estrella, San Luis Obispo Co., JarffZ. Sierra Nevada: Indian 

 Valley, Plumas Co., Lemmon ; Dogwood Creek, near Rich Pt., Middle Fork Feather River, Plumas 

 Co., Jcp.^on 10,621; Hetch-Hetchy, Jepson 3467; Yosemite, Bolander 6322; Big Mdws., betw. 

 Merced Grove and Yosemite, Jepson 14,971; Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1121; 

 Florence Lake, South Fork San Joaquin River, E. Ferguson 443 ; Markwood Mdw., Fresno Co., 

 Jepson 16,055 ; Tehipite Valley, Sail # Chandler 497 ; Coyote Pass, Tulare Co., Jepson 988 ; Rocky 

 Gulch, Kaweah, Walter Fry 353 ; Jordan Hot Sprs., se. Tulare Co., Zeile. Inyo Co. : Wyman Creek, 

 White Mts., Duran 3143; Darwin Falls, Argus Mts., B. A. Ferris 7926; Cottonwood Canon, Death 



Fig. 438. Stachys chamissonis 

 Benth. a, fl. stem, X ¥2 ; b, leaf, X V2 ; 

 c, fl., X 1; d. sect, of corolla-tube spread 

 out, showing hairy ring inside, X 1%. 



