430 LABIATAE 



large, strongly 2-lipped, abruptly dilated at throat, the upper lip narrow, entire or 

 emarginate, the lower broader, with large middle lobe and 2 smaller lateral lobes. 

 Fertile stamens 2, somewhat exserted. Rudiments of sterile stamens minute or 

 none. Nutlets smooth. — Species about 18, North America. (N. Monardes, 1493- 

 1588, Spanish writer, whose book, translated 1577 into English with the title "Joy- 

 full Newes," gave the first account of the floi-a of North America.) 



1. M. pectinata Nutt. Annual, the branches mainly from the base, 9 to 14 

 inches high ; herbage puberulent ; leaf -blades oblong, rather sparingly serrulate, 1 

 to 1% inches long, short-petioled, the upper subsessile and eiliate toward base; 

 flowers in 2 to 5 whorls, rarely a single whorl ; bracts lanceolate, entire or nearly so, 

 eiliate, equalling the calyces; calyx-teeth aristate, pilose; corolla yellowish-white, 

 glandular-punctate, % inch long. 



Gravelly hillsides, 4000 to 5000 feet : New York Mts., eastern Mohave Desert. 

 East to Nebraska and Texas. July-Sept. 



Loc. — Van Triggers, ace. F. A. Munz. 



R«f . — MoNAfiDA PECTINATA Nutt., Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2,1:182 (1847), type loc. Santa Fe, 

 N. Max., Gamhel. 



19. LAMIUML. Henbit 



Hairy herbs. Flowers in 1, 2 or 3 compact whorls. Calyx with 5 nearly equal 

 awn-pointed teeth, much surpassed by the elongated corolla-tube. Corolla-tube 

 much enlarged at the throat; upper lip erect or arched, entire or slightly notched ; 

 lower lip spreading, the middle lobe broad, the lateral lobes small and acute or tooth- 

 like. Anthers hairy in ours. — Species 40, Europe, Asia and Africa. (Greek laimos, 

 throat, the corolla gaping. ) 



1. L. amplexicaule L. Giraffe Head. Low annual, decumbent at base ; herb- 

 age scantily hairy or subglabrous, odorless ; internodes below the inflorescence very 

 long ; leaves rounded, toothed or lobed, the lowest petioled and cordate, the floral 

 clasping ; corolla purplish-red, slender, 5 to 7 lines long, the upper lip bearded, the 

 lower spotted; nutlets carinate on the face. 



European weed, naturalized in grain fields, orchards, dooryards and garden 

 corners, sometimes in wild habitats, 10 to 2000 feet : widely scattered in cismontane 

 California, only slightly transmontane. Mar.-Aug. 



Field note. — Lamium amplexicaule is a garden weed at Eureka. At this place it produces tiny 

 cleistogamous flowers, the fully developed corollas being rather rare. — J. P. Tracy. 



Locs. — .less Valley, e. Modoc Co.. L. S. Smith 1093; Ttedding, Blanl-inship : Anderson, Shasta 

 Co., Alice King; Eureka, Tracy 13,380; Calistoga, Jepson 4019; St. Helena, Clara A. Sunt ; Boul- 

 der Creek, Santa Cruz Mts., V. F. Hesse 135; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6347; Mariposa, 

 Congdon; Michilinda, near Pasadena, H. J. Bohhs; San Bernardino, J. B. Feudge 3; Eedlands, 

 J. B. Feudge 4. 



Refs. — Lamitjm amplexicaule L., Sp. PI. 579 (1753), type European; Jepson, FI. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 458 (1901), ed. 2, 358 (1911), Man. 878 (1925). 



Moluccella laevis L., Sp. PI. 587 (1753) ; Jepson, Man. 879 (1925). Shell- 

 FLOWEE. Molucca Balm. Annual, about 1 foot high ; leaf-blades orbicular, ere- 

 nate; whorls 6-flowered ; bracts spinose ; calyx-base campanulate, nerved, expanded 

 above into a very broad wing; corolla white, 2-lipped, shorter than the calyx. — 

 Adventive from Europe : Berryessa Valley, Napa Co., in 1926 ; Brim ranch, foot- 

 hills west of Williams, Colusa Co., in 1917; Contra Costa Co. in 1932. The calyx 

 resembles a very broad-mouthed trumpet. 



20. HYPTISJacq. 



Herbs or shrubs. Calyx with 5 subequal teeth. Corolla short, the lobes of upper 

 lip and lateral lobes of lower lip similar, plane, equal ; middle lobe of lower lip with 

 a transverse ridge or narrow fold at the contracted base and produced beyond into 



