Salvia. LABIAT.E. 367 



S. Columbarise, Benth. Soft-puberulcnt : stems slender, branching and leafy below, 

 to 20 iiKhos high, naked and pedunculiforni above, terminated by solitary or two pro- 

 liferous lieads : leaves deeply 1-2-pinnatitid or pinnatcly parted into oblong crenately 

 toothed or incised obtuse divisions, muticous, rugose : involucrate floral leaves or bracts 

 not exceeding tlie head, broadly ovate, entire, resembling tlie more membranaceous some- 

 times purplish abruptly acuminate-aristate inner bracts: flowers small: calyx naked witii- 

 in ; its large upper lip arcuate-concave, hispid at base outside, tipped witii a pair of con- 

 nivcnt and partly connate short aristiform teetii (tlie third or middle tooth apparently 

 always wanting), very mucli surpassing the two small at lengtli porrect teetli of the 

 lower lip : corolla blue, hardly exceeding the calyx ; its upper lip emarginate-2-lobed at 

 apex, the lower with small lateral lobes and a much larger transversely oval short- 

 unguiculate somewhat 2-lobed but otlierwise entire or merely crenulate middle one: fila- 

 ments slender. — Common through California, and in adjacent Arizona and Nevada. 



§ 3. IIkterospiiack, Bentb. Throat of tlie calyx naked (or in a single species 

 ciliate-liirsute) ; the upper lip broadly truncate and remotely 3-toothed ; the lower 

 2-cleft: corolla elongated, mostly pilose-annulate inside; upper lip emarginate or 

 entire : stamens separate : connective shorter than the slender often exserted fila- 

 ment; the porrected lower fork also bearing a polliniferous anther-cell: herbs, 

 ours Atlantic-American perennials, with mostly lyrately-lobed or toothed or pin- 

 nately divided leaves ; infiorescence loosely racemose, the small bract-like floral 

 leaves persistent. 



* Corolla blue or violet, thrice the length of the calyx : leaves at most piunatilid ; the cauline, 

 if any, sessile or narrowed at base into wing-margined petioles. 



S. lyrata, L. Perennial from a somewiiat tuberous root, pilose or hirsute : stem com- 

 monly scapiform, a foot or more high : radical leaves obovate, sinuate- or repand-dentate, or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid ; cauline of one or two somewhat similar pairs, or none; floral oblong or 

 lanceolate and mostly shorter than the calyx : raceme of few or several at length dis- 

 tant about 6-flowercd loose clusters, rarely branching : calyx camjjanulate, membranaceous ; 

 the broad and truncate upper lip with short or very short widely separated aristulate 

 teeth; lower with 2 longer lanceolate cuspidate-pointed teeth: corolla (almost an inch 

 long) ampliate-funnelform beyond the calyx ; its erect upper lip much shorter and smaller 

 than the lower. — Spec. i. 23 (Dill. VAth. t. 175; Moris. Hist. &c.) ; Michx. Fl. i. 14. 

 S. lijnita & S. obovaLu, Ell. Sk. i. '^'i; Benth. in DC. 1. c. 353 ; the latter merely a form with 

 thin and barely dentate leaves ; caly.x-teeth variable in lengtli. — Sandy woodlands, New 

 Jersey to Illinois, Florida, and Texas ; flowering early. 



* * Corolla scavlet-red. four times the length of the calyx: herbage softly and often cancsceiitly 

 pubescent : cauline leaves all slender-petioled, at least the lower on'cs 3-5-lbliolate. 



S. RcBmeriaiia, Scheele. Stems (afoot or two high) and petioles below often sparsely 

 hirsute with long spreading hairs ; leaves or terminal leaflet roundish or rcniform-cordate, 

 coarsely rcpand-toothed or crenately incised (an inch or two broad), membranaceous; the 

 lower usually with 2 or 3 similar but smaller (subsessilc or slender-petiolulate) lateral 

 leaflets, these occasionally reduced to dentiform appendages on the petiole : raceme loose 

 and elongated: floral leaves mostly shorter than tlie pedicels: calyx somewhat pubescent, 

 naked within; its upper lip ;3-aristulate or with the middle tooth obsolete; the 2-parted 

 lower one of triangulardanceolato cuspidate-acuminate teeth : corolla (an inch or more 

 long) deep scarlet, puberulont, narrowly tubular-funnelform, somewhat arcuate ; it.s 

 spreading lower lip with rounded and obcordate-2-cleft middle lobe, hardly longer than the 

 erect strongly emarginate upper lip ; lobes of the style more or less unequal. — Scheele in 

 Linn. xxii. 58(5; Torr. liot. Mex. Bound. 132. S. porp/ii/rantha (or porp/iijrala), Decaisne in 

 Rev. Ilort. 1854, t. 10; Fl. Serres, t. 1080; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4939. — In light fertile soil, 

 W. Texas, Wrii/ht, Lindhelmer, &c. (Adjacent Mex.) 



S. Henryi, Gray. More slender, less soft-pubescent : leaves or mostl}' leaflets smaller, 

 seldom cordate, angulatedobed ; lower floral ones often similar, all as long as the pedicels: 

 calyx hirsute, ciliated)eardcd or villous in the sinuses and throat : corolla apparently nar- 

 rower and with shorter less notched lips; the bearded ring at base within obsolete. — Proc. 

 Am. vVcad. viii. 3G8. S. /iwiiif.rkiiKi, Tovr. I. c, in part. — New Mexico, on the Mimbres, 



