434 LABIATAE 



Eefs. — MoNASDBLLA NANA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11:101 (1876), type loc. "mts. behind Sau 

 Diego" (that is, in the main range, e. San Diego Co.), Cleveland; Jepson, Man. 880 (1925). 

 M. macrantha var. nana Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 2:459 (1886). Madrcmella nana Greene, Lflts. 1:169 

 (190C). Monardella villosa var. leptosiphon Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. 129 (1859), type loc. San 

 Felipe, Parry. M. nana var. leptosiplion Abrams, Muhl. 8:31 (1912). Var. tenuiplora Abrams, 

 Muhl. 8:32 (1912); Jepson, Man. 880 (1925). M. tenuifiora Wats.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 17:230 (1882), type loc. [Mt.] "San Jacinto, San Diego Co." [now Eiverside Co.], S. B. # W. F. 

 Parish 327. M. macrantha var. tenuifiora Gray, Syn. Fl., 2:459 (1886). M. macrantha var. pine- 

 torum Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 1 : 110, pi. 12 (1902) , type loc. Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mts., 

 Eall 725; Jepson, Man. 880 (1925). Var. akida Abrams, Muhl. 8:33 (1912) ; Jepson, Man. 880 

 (1925). M. macrantha var. arida Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 1 :111 pi. 10 (1902), type loc. Coyote 

 Creek, sw. of Santa Eosa Mts., Hall 2127. 



3. M. cinerea Abrams. Dwarfish plant, the spreading stems 1 to 4 inches long, 

 very leafy, arising from a heavy branching root-crown ; herbage with a close ashy- 

 gray pubescence ; leaf -blades ovate, sparingly or obscurely serrulate, 2 to 4 lines 

 long, subsessile; heads 6 to 7 lines broad; bracts ovate, equaling or often much 

 shorter than the calyces, both bracts and calyces usually wine-purplish ; calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate, spreading in age; corolla pale lavender, its tube not esserted. 



Rock pockets or in coarse gravel of exposed ridges and talus slopes, 6000 to 9750 

 feet : Mt. San Antonio region of the San Gabriel Mts. June-July. 



Geog. note. — This extremely narrow endemic, Monardella cinerea, is kno^vn only from the 

 Mt. San Antonio district, where it has been collected on Mt. San Antonio (often called Mt. Baldy), 

 Peirson 182, on Little Baldy and in the north fork San Antonio Caiion. 



Eefs. — Monardella cinerea Abrams, Muhl. 8:33 (1912), type loc. Mt. San Antonio, Abrams 

 1928; Jepson, Man. 880 (1925). 



4. M. viridis Jepson. Stems ascending, % to 2 feet long, woody at base ; leaf- 

 blades rhomboidal to oblong-obtusish, slightly revolute-margiued, light green and 

 microscopically puberulent above, white-lanate beneath, 3 to 8 lines long, narrowed 

 at base to a slender petiole; heads subglobose, 1 to IVs inches broad, on long and 

 almost naked peduncles; bracts ovate, densely pubescent, ciliate, the outer folia- 

 ceous but short ; calyx glandular-dotted, the lanceolate teeth somewhat hirsute ; 

 corolla lavender. 



Dry openly wooded foothills, 500 to 1500 feet : Napa Range and north to western 

 Lake Co. July-Oct. 



Locs. — Upper Conn Valley, Napa Eange, Jepson 70e ; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson 32f ; Mt. Hanna, 

 Jepson lOOj. 



Eefs. — Monardella vieidis Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 465 (1901), type loc. upper Conn Valley, 

 Napa Range, Jepson 70d, ed. 2, 364 (1911) , Man. 881 (1925). Madronella viridis Arthur, Torreya 

 21:12 (1921). Monardella ledifolia Greene, Pitt. 5:81 (1902), "Napa, Sonoma and perhaps Lake 

 counties." Madronella ledifolia Greene, h&ts. 1:169 (1906). 



5. M. villosa Benth. Coyote Mint. (Pig. 441.) Stems several from the base, 

 mostly simple, tough or somewhat suffruteseent at base, % to 1^/2 feet high; herbage 

 pubescent or villous to subglabrate ; leaf-blades round-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 dark green, commonly more or less serrate, sometimes entire, 6 to 11 lines long, the 

 veins conspicuous; petioles 2 to 3 lines long; bracts ovate to lanceolate, the outer 

 often f oliaceous, pinnately veined ; calyx 4 lines long, pubescent or hirsute-pubes- 

 cent, the teeth and upper end of tube hairy within; corolla dull white to pink or 

 purple, pubescent within and without, the tube exceeding the calyx, the limb more 

 than half as long as the calyx ; stamens exserted or about equaling the linear lobes 

 of the corolla; filaments glabrous or sparsely hairy. 



Dry rocky ground in the hills or gravelly stream beds, 10 to 3000 feet: Coast 

 Ranges (mostly back of the immediate coast line and eastward to the inner range) 

 from San Luis Obispo Co. to Humboldt Co. May-Sept. It is also called Yerba Poles. 



Note on variation. — In the factors of pubescence, leaf-sh.npe and foliation of heads, Monar- 

 della villosa is an unstable aggregate. As an aggregate, sensu latissimo, it extends from the sea 

 beaches of the ocean shores to the driest inner Coast Eange, and is distributed from San Luis 

 Obispo County nortliwards to Siskiyou County, thence south in the Sierra Nevada foothills at least 



