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18. SALVIA (Tourn.) L. Sage. 



Annual 



3r perennial herbs (ours), or rarely shrubby plants. Leaves opposite, 

 sometimes mostly basal, entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers perfect, in axillary 

 clusters, disposed in spikes, racemes, or panicles. Calyx 2-lipped; upper lip 

 3-toothed; lower lip with 2 longer and narrower lobes. Corolla strongly 2-lipped, 

 upper hp arched; lower lip longer, spreading, with 3 lobes. Stamens 4, but only 

 2 anther-bearing, or sometimes only 2; lower branch of the connective defiexed, 

 destitute of an anther-cell. Nutlets smooth. 



Corolla 15-30 mm. long; tube exserted. 1. s Pitcheri. 



Corolla 8-12 mm. long; tube included in the calyx. ' 2. 5. lanceolata, 



1. S. Pitcheri Torr. Stem 4^12 dm. high, finely retrorsely strigose; leaves 

 short-petioled, Imear-lanceolate or linear, 3-12 cm. long, toothed or entire, strigil- 

 lose; c^lyx densely canescent, 6-8 mm. long; upper lip barely pointed; corolla 

 blue or white; upper lip densely bearded on the back. Dry plains and prairies: 

 Neb.— Mo.— Tex.— Colo. Plain. Jl-S. 



2. S. lanceolata Willd. Perennial; stem puberulent, erect, branched, 1-4 

 dm. high; leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate to oblong or linear, 2-8 cm. long, re- 

 motely serrate or undulate or entire, puberulent or glabrate; calyx 7-8 mm. long, 

 puberulent; upper lip abruptly pointed; corolla purplish; upper lip minutely 

 puberulent. Prairies, plains, and hillsides: S.D.— Tex.— N.M.— Mont.; Mex. 

 Plain — Submont. My-S. 



19, AUDIBER'^LLA Briq. Ball Sage. 



Perennial, mostly suffruticose herbs, usually more or less canescent. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, crenate or crenulate. Flowers perfect, in bracteate 

 axillary verticils. Calyx 24ipped, deeply cleft in front, sometimes oblique. 

 Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip spreading, 2-lobed or emarginate; lower lip spreading, 

 3-lobed. Fertile stamens 2; filaments slender, either simple or articulate above, 

 but bearing a single anther-cell. Nutlets smooth. [Audibertia Benth.] 



Leaf-blades oblong-spa tulate; lower lip of the coroUa much longer than the upper. 



i.eat-blades rounded obovate-spatulate; lower lip of the coroUa slightly longer than the 

 npper. '^ 2. A. argentea. 



1. A, incana (Benth.) Briq. Branches grayish puberulent; leaves short- 

 petioled, 2-4 cm. long; blades oblong-spatulate, scurfy-canescent, obtuse, entire; 

 bracts obovate or oval, canescent and ciliate, about 1 cm. long; corolla about 15 

 mm. long. Audibertia incana Benth. Hillsides: Wash.— Ida.— Ore. Sub- 

 monL 



2. A. argentea Rydb. Branches cinereous-puberulent; leaves petioled, 1-2 

 ^^- I?' ^'^^^^ rounded, obovate-spatulate, scurfy-cinereous, at first silvery 

 white; bracts broadly obovate, membranous, strongly veined, puberulent and 

 cihate; corolla blue, about 1 cm. long. Dry hills: Utah— Ariz.— Cahf.—Nev. 

 Son, Ap-Je. 



Wild 



ipposite, petioled, wnth 

 R. remote or contiguous, 



xu-.xMi^cu, iican^ reguiany o-ioDea. Corolla 2-lipped; throat dilatea; uppoi ii>^ 

 narrow, erect or arched, entire or notched; lower Up spreading, 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe much the larger. Anther-bearing stamens 2, and with 2 or no rudimentary 

 tilaments; anthers narrow, 2-celled, versatile; sacs divergent. Nutlets smooth. 



Heads solitaiy at the ends of the stem and branches; stamens conspicuously exceeding 



the acute upper hp of the coroUa. 

 Petioles and stem more or less hirsute-viUous, the latter especially so under the nodes, 

 i^eaves sparmgly pilose; stem and petioles hirsute-ciliate. 1. M- comata. 



l^eaves softly pubescent. especiaUy below; stem, petioles, and the veins of. the 

 leaves lanate. "^ * yv^i^i^^. ^ ^^ Ramaleyu 



\V hole plant finely strigose or puberulent. 

 I'etioles seldom over 5 mm. ions 



