372 LABIATE. Salvia. 



S. SclArea, L. (Clary.) Biennial, villous-pubescent, viscid: stem stout, 2 or o feet high : 

 leaves ample, long-petioled, ovate and cordate, crcnate, rugose ; floral forming bracts of 

 the cylindrical or interrupted spike, ovate, acuminate, tinged with white and rose-color : 

 calyx campanulate ; teeth spinulose-acmninate : corolla white and bluish, rather large, 

 widely ringcnt ; its short tul^e included; long upper lip falcate ami compressed. — Penn- 

 sylvania, escaped from gardens. (Nat. from Eu.) 



S. VERBENACEA, L., Mulil. Perennial, pubescent or villous, a foot or two high : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, often cordate at base, obtuse, mostly sinuate-incised or moderately pinnatifid 

 and the lobes crenate-toothed, rugose, almost glabrous; the few cauliue mostly sessile; 

 the floral inconspicuous, rouiuled-ovate : raceme interrupted : calyx rcflexed after flower- 

 ing ; its broad and rounded upper lip recurvcd-spreading, with 3 minute connivent teeth ; 

 the lower of 2 longer triangular-subulate and cuspidate teeih, equalling the throat of the 

 small bluish corolla, the upper lip of which is nearly straight. — .S'. Claijloni, EU., excl. 

 reference to Clayton, whose ])lant is S. li/rata? — Dry sandy pastures around Beaufort, 

 S. Carolina, Elliott. Sparingly seen in the Middle States. (Nat. from Eu.) 



29. AUDIBERTIA, Benth. (M. Audihcrt of Turascon, Provence.) — 

 W. North American (all Califoniian, one species of wider range), frnticose or 

 perennial-herbaceous, mostly canescent-tomentose ; with crenate or cremilate and 

 reticulated leaves, and flowers resembling those of Salvia of tlie S. officinalis 

 type : fl. spring and summer. (Noted bee-plants in S. California.) 



§ 1. Inflorescence densely vcrticillastrate-glomerate and interrupted-spicate, 

 much bracteate : corolla with tube longer than the limb. 



* Large-flowered: corolla fully inch and a half long, crimson-purple; upper lip rather erect and 

 short, eniarghiate : lower leaves cordate or hastate at base. 



A. grandiflora, Benth. Stem villous and glandular, stout, sutfrutescent, 2 or 3 feet 

 higli : leaves very rugose, tomentose beneath, sinuatc-crenate ; lower mostly hastate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 to 8 indies long, on margined petioles ; upper oblong and sessile ; floral 

 and bracts of the large heads bi'oadly ovate, membranaceous: calyx spathaceous, deeply 

 cleft between tlie two small anterior cuspidate-tipped teeth ; ample concave upper lip 

 3-denticulate : stamens much exscrted : a conspicuous slender tooth representing the lower 

 fork of the connective. — Lab. 312, & DC. Prodr. xii. 359; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. 38 

 (sterile filaments wrongly represented) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 600. — California Coast Ranges, 

 &c.. from San Mateo Co. southward. 



* * Smaller-flowered: corolla less than an inch long, violet or bluish : leaves not cordate. 

 •*— Bracts, upper floral leaves, and bilabiate calyx scarious-memhran;iccous, reticulated, usually 



colored, obtuse and nuUicous (or at most niucronate); the forme;' large and roundish, half inch or 



more long, iml^ricating the close heads: corolla only half inch long, narrofl', and \villi short limb: 



low sufl'ruticose species of the interior arid region. 



A. incana, Benth. 1. c. Closely tomcntose-canescent, leafy : leaves spatulatcor obovate, 

 obtuse or retuse, not rugose, entire (or sparsely crenulate), seldom inch long : bracts 

 obovate or oval, pubescent and ciliate, purple-tinged: calyx turbinate; anterior teeth 

 ovate or oblong, rather shorter than the truncate and emarginate very broad upper lip : 

 stamens much exscrted: connective with or without a dentiform appendage. — Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1169; Gray, 1. c. — From interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho south to Arizona, 

 and along the eastern borders of California. 



A. capitata, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent : leaves oblong, acutish, very rugose, crenu- 

 late, slender-petioled : bracts of solitary head ovate or oval, apparently whitish : flowers, 

 &c., of the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Providence Moun- 

 tains, San Bernardino Co., S. E. California, Cooper. 



•i— H— Bracts more or less herbaceous, at least not colored: leaves minutely rugose, crenulate: 

 species restricted to California, 

 •t-i- Corolla barely half inch long: all the calyx-teeth and bracts subulate or aristatc-tipped. 



A. hutnilis Benth. 1- c. Stems simple and only a span high from a thickened suffruti- 

 cose base, almost leafless and scapiform : leaves crowded at the base, lanceolate or spatu- 

 latc-oblong, very obtuse, finely rugose, densely crenulate, canescent, an inch or more long. 



