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Tax. note. — The type of Stachys bullata Benth. was collected on the coast of California, prob- 

 ably at. San Francisco, by Becchey's voyage, which visited San Francisco and Monterey from Nov. 

 6, 1826 to Jan. 5, 1827. The type is in the Herbarium Hookerianum at Kew. A collection of 

 Stachys from San Francisco by M. K. Curran (in 1884) was compared with it in 1807 by J. B. Davy 

 and pronounced a good match. The same material was compared again in 1905 by the present 

 author who likevrise judged it an excellent match. The type has only flower buds; its leaves are 

 remarkably bullate-rugose, a feature doubtless consistent with its extreme maturity when collected 

 so late in the dry season. It is this extremely bullate-rugose condition which inspired E. L. Greene's 

 pronouncement of the specimen as wholly unique when he examined it at Kew in 1894. The Curran 

 collection is relatively youthful, but its leaves in some measure recall the Beechey type. As a 

 specimen it is so close that it is here accepted as a working equivalent of the type, and the reference 

 of synonyms and material in this treatment is based upon it. The hairy band in the corolla-tube 

 of the Curran plant is transverse and lies very near the base of the tube as in the coast-line material 

 which was described under the name Stachys calif orniea Benth. in the author's Manual. Although 

 the type of Stachys bullata presents, as said, so unique an aspect, it is, in habit, in size, in the shape 

 and size of its leaves and in its inflorescence, quite reconcilable with the plant known as Stachys 

 calif orniea, which inhabits the coast line or its neighborhood southward from San Francisco. 



Locs. — San Francisco, M. K. Curran; Lake San Andreas, San Mateo Co., Davy 1036; Ben 

 Lomond Mt., Burton; betw. Corralitos and Sequel, Santa Cruz Co., Jepson 14,968; Monterey, 

 Jepson 7444; Carmel River, near Carmel Mission, Jepson 14,969; Paeheco Pass, Jepson 12,737; 

 South Fork Willow Creek, n. of Bear Valley, San Benito Co., Jepson 12,250 ; Arroyo Grande, Aliee 

 King ; Canada del Capitan, Santa Barbara coast, Jepson 11,909 ; Sycamore Canon, Santa Inez Mts., 

 Jepson 9146; Pelican Bay, Santa Cruz Isl., Jepson 12,122; Monrovia Caiion, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 439; Newport Bay, Orange Co., Booth 1080. 



Refs. — Stachys bdllata Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 547 (1834), type from Cal., Beechey. 

 S. calif orniea Benth.; DC, Prodr. 12 :469 (1848), type from Cal., Coulter ; (in the Kew Herbarium 

 there are two Coulter numbers, 533 and 531 ; the former is here preferred as the type of S. cali- 

 forniea, since it answers better Bentham's diagnosis) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 458 (1901), ed. 

 2, 358 (1911), Man. 877 (1925). S. acuminata Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:410 (1887), type loc. 

 Santa Cruz Isl., Greene. 



6. S. stricta Greene. Stems erect, often stout, IVi to 2 feet high, hirsute Avith 

 spreading hairs, the leaves with somewhat appressed hairs, the entire herbage be- 

 neath the pubescence with microscopic resiu-glands ; leaves very erect or ascending, 

 the blades ovate-lanceolate or oblong, crenate, 2 to 4 (or ^Y-t) inches long, truncate 

 or cordate at base, petioled, the uppermost sessile or auriculate-clasping; spikes 

 dense, or more often interrupted below the apical whorls, 2 to 4 inches long; calyx 

 21/2 to 3 lines long, the teeth deltoid, pungent ; corolla-tube without evident constric- 

 tion, the ring of hairs within horizontal; upper lip of corolla very short (Vs length 

 of lower lip) ; nittlets light brown, only % line long. 



Edges of marshy ground, 100 to 1500 feet : middle and inner North Coast Ranges 

 from northeastern Sonoma Co. to Mendocino Co. and western Tehama Co. ; Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Mariposa Co. to Butte Co. May-July. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Knights Valley, Davy; Potter Valley, e. Mendocino Co., Nettie 

 Purpus; near Mud Flat, Tehama Co., Heller 11,524. Sierra Nevada: Coulterville (2 mi. nw.), 

 Mariposa Co., Hoover 3826 ; Milton, Calaveras Co., Davy 1305 ; lone, Amador Co., Braunion 1087 ; 

 Oroville (8 mi. n.), Heller 11,577. 



Refs. — Stachys stricta Greene, Erythea 2:122 (1894), type loc. Knights Valley, Greene. 

 S. ajugoides var. stricta Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 457 (1901), ed." 2, 357 (1911), Man. 877 (1925). 



Stachys arvensis L., Sp. PL ed. 2, 814 (1763), type European. Field Stachys. Annual, 

 1 foot high; stems and petioles thinly pilose, the leaf -blades sparsely hispidulose; leaf -blades 

 deltoid-ovate to elliptic, serrate, subcordate to obtuse at base, % to % inch long, the upper shortly 

 petioled; stems with axUlary clusters 3 to 6 (or 1 or 2) -flowered ; calyx purple, its teeth lanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the tube; corolla pale purple, 3 to 4 lines long, often scarcely longer than the 

 calyx. — Introduced from Europe: fields at Areata, Humboldt Co., H. B. Tucker, in 1935, and at 

 Rowdy Creek, Smith River town, Del Norte Co., Buiy Van Deventer, in 1938. 



7. S. pycnantha Benth. Coast Stachys. Stem erect, % to IVo (or 2) feet 

 high ; herbage hirsute, mostly green, the surface of the leaves somewhat rugulose 

 and glandular; leaf -blades ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse or cordate at base, 1 to 4 

 inches long, mostly petioled; spikes dense, cylindric, nearly bractless, solitary or 

 cymose, 1 to 2 (or 4V2) inches long, one or two lowest whorls rarely separate ; calyx 

 campanulate, 2I/2 lines long, very hirsute quite to the tips of the deltoid cuspidate 



