562 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



7. Salvia earlei Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 169. 1913. 



Type locality: Thirty-five miles west of Roswell, New Mexico. Type collected 

 by Earle (no. 375). 



Range: Western Texas and southern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: West of Roswell; Roswell; Sixteen Spring Canyon. Plains and low 

 hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



8. Salvia pitcheri Torr.; Benth. Labiat. Gen. Sp. 251. 1833. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America septentrionali ad Red River." . /t iJ fi4 ^ 

 Range: Nebraska to New Mexico and Texas. ? « 



New Mexico: Canadian River (Bigelow). Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 

 The specimen probably came from some locality near Tucumcari. 



15. MOLDAVICA Adans. Dragon-head. 



Coarse herb, 20 to 70 cm. high, with branched stems, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 coarsely serrate, petiolate leaves, and flowers in large crowded bracted headlike spikes 

 terminating the branches; calyx tubular, 15-nerved, 5-lobed, the lobes foliaceous, the 

 upper broadest; corolla small, blue, shorter than the calyx; nutlets ovoid, smooth. 



1. Moldavica parviflora (Nutt.) Britton in Britt. & Brown, Ulustr. Fl. ed. 2. 3: 

 114. 1913. 



Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt. Gen. PI. 2: 35. 1818. 



Type locality: "Around Fort Mandan, on the Missouri." 



Range: British America to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Farmington; Chama; Sierra Grande; Raton; 

 Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Santa Antonita; Ramah; Mogollon Mountains; 

 Bear Mountain; Organ Mountains; White and Sacramento mountains. Open slopes 

 and plains, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



16. AGASTACHE Clayt. Giant hyssop. 



Aromatic perennial herbs, 40 to 80 cm. high, more or less puberulent throughout, 

 with petiolate leaves, the flowers in terminal, dense or interrupted, spikelike panicles; 

 calyx tubular, often colored, 15-nerved, 5-toothed, the teeth triangular to subulate, 

 erect; corolla greenish to red purple, narrowly tubular- funnelform, more or less 

 arched, from barely exceeding the calyx to 2 or 3 times as long, the limb bilabiate; 

 stamens 4, nearly equal; nutlets small, brown, smooth, or granular at the apex. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Calyx 6 mm. long or less; flowers small and inconspicuous. 



Calyx purplish-tinged, 5 to 6 mm. long 1. A. verticillata. 



Calyx green or whitish, 3 to 4 mm. long. 



Panicles dense; corolla white, scarcely exceeding the 



calyx; calyx mostly green, the lobes acute 2. A. micrantha. 



Panicles interrupted, verticillate; corolla colored, twice as 



long as the calyx; calyx teeth subulate, white 3. A. wrightii. 



Calyx 8 mm. long or more; flowers large and mostly conspicuous. 

 Corolla not over twice the length of the calyx; whole flower 20 

 mm. long or less. 

 Calyx green, at most with whitish teeth; corolla pale, half 



as long again as the calyx 4. A. pallidijlora. 



Calyx colored, at least the teeth; corolla various. 



Corolla fully twice as long as the calyx, arched, pale; 



calyx teeth pinkish 5. A. greenei. 



