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1. M. macrantha Gray. (Fig. 440.) Stems simple or branched, puberulent 



or villous, 2 to 12 inches high, decumbent from creeping woody rootstocks; leaf- 

 blades ovate, obtuse, entire or sometimes slightly toothed, glabrate or puberulent, 

 % to lYi inches long, petioled; heads 2 to 18-flowered, the bracts leafy, narrowly 

 ovate, acute or obtusish, villous-ciliate, 4 to 11 lines long; calyx 9 to 12 lines long, 

 pubescent and somewhat glandular, sparsely villous within at the upper end, the 5 

 teeth nearly equal, subulate, the sinuses thickened ; corolla scarlet, pubescent with- 

 out, 1 to iy2 inches long, the tube narrowly funnelform, the lips 2^ lines long, the 

 lobes of the lower linear, obtusish ; stamens 

 much exserted, the lower pair the longer, fila- 

 ments sometimes sparsely pubescent. 



Dry stony slopes, open coniferous forest 

 and upper part of chaparral belt, 1500 to 5500 

 feet : Santa Lucia Mts. ; San Gabriel, San Ber- 

 nardino and Cuyamaea mountains. South to 

 northern Lower California. June-July. 



Locs. — Santa Lucia Mts.: Big Sur, Davy 7436; 

 Burro trail, K. Brandegee. S. Cal.: West Fork San 

 Gabriel River, near Sturtevant Camp, Feirson 183 ; 

 City Creek road, San Bernardino Mts., Feirson 10,704 ; 

 Julian, e. San Diego Co., Dunn; Cuyamaea Lake, Munz 

 ^ Marwood 7241 ; Descanao, T. Brandegee. 



Var. hallii Abrams. Habit la.xly spreading, very 

 florif erous ; leaf -blades deltoid-ovate, thinly villous or 

 ciliate, Vi to 1 inch long, the petioles 2 to 6 lines long, 

 bracts and calyces glandular-pubescent to long vil- 

 lous. — San Bernardino Mts. to mountains of San Diego 

 Co.: Mill Creek Caiion, San Bernardino Mts., Farisli 

 4578; San Jacinto Eiver Canon, Hall 976; Palomar 

 Mt. (betw. Cootca Valley and summit), Jepson 1547; 

 Cuyamaea, T. Brandegee. 



Eefs. — MONARDELLA MACRANTHA Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 11 : 100 ( 1876 ) , type loc. Cuyamaea Mts., Falmer 

 295 (cf. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 12:35) ; Hook, f., Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6270 (1876) ; Jepson, Man. 880, fig. 826 

 (1925). Madronella macrantha Greene, Lflts. 1:169 

 (1906), (cf. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 12:3-4). Var. 



HALLII Abrams, Muhl. 8:29 (1912), type loc. Palomar Mt., Hall 1936. Monardella macrantha 

 var. longiloba Abrams, I.e., type loc. San Jacinto Eiver Canon, Hall 976; Jepson, Man. 880 (1925). 

 Monardella macrantha var. tenuiflora Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 1 : 110, pi. 11 (1902) ; not Monar- 

 della macrantha var. tenuiflora Gray, Syn. Fl. 2 :459 (1886), which is based on M. tenuiflora Wats, 

 in Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:230 (1882). 



2. M, nana Gray. Stems from creeping rootstocks, woody at base, simple or 

 somewhat branched, ascending, 4 to 10 inches high ; leaf -blades ovate to elliptic, 

 entire, 4 to 13 lines long, short-petioled; corolla white or yellowish, rose-tinged, % 

 to 11/4 inches long, the lobes 3 lines long, the tube very slender (almost filiform), 

 little exceeding the calyx ; stamens little exserted. 



Opens in chaparral or on wooded slopes, 4000 to 6000 feet : Palomar and Cuya- 

 maea mountains, San Diego Co. South to Lower California. June- Aug. 



Locs. — Palomar Mt., C. V. Meyer 232 ; Julian, T. Brandegee ; Banner grade, K, Brandegee; 

 betw. Cuyamaea and Oriflamme Caiion, Airam.'i 3941. 



Var. tenuiflora Abrams. Smaller (3 to 3% inches high), the leaves a little crowded; leaf- 

 blades ovate to elliptic or oblong, 2% to 4 lines long, pale green; bracts smaller, thinner. — Open 

 pine forest, San Jacinto and Santa Eosa mountains and Palomar Mt., 4200 to 8600 feet : Mt. San 

 Jacinto (betw. forks of summit trail and log cabin on upper trail, Jepson 2322; betw. Roaeh Mill 

 and Deer Sprs., C. V. Meyer 530) ; Santa Rosa Indian Village, Mum 5833. 



Var. arida Abrams. Tufted or densely branching from a woody base, 2 to 3 inches high; 

 foliage lead-gray, the leaves numerous, but much reduced (the blades 2 to 4 lines long), much 

 curled, crowded even to the extent of closely clothing the stem ; bracts narrowly ovate, straw-white, 

 sometimes purplish-tinged; corolla-lobes like frayed-cut paper. — Desert mountain slopes, Santa 

 Rosa Mts., 4000 to 5000 feet : betw. Vandeventer ranch and Palm Canon, Jepson 1336 ; Coyote 

 Canon, Hall 2127. 



Fig. 440. Monardella macrantha 

 Gray, a, habit, X % ; 6, calyx, X 1. 



