NEW SPECIES OF MONARDELLA. 81 
and the plant has very rarely been collected. All the bulk of 
our material so named in the herbaria must now be otherwise 
disposed of. Much of it will fall into species here to be pro- 
posed. 
M. LEDIFOLIA. Strongly suffrutescent, the woody stem and 
its sterile densely leafy branches 8 to 12 inches high, the loosely 
leafy and pedunculiform flowering branches about as long: 
leaves small for the plant, seldom } inch long inclusive of the 
very distinct petiole, the blade oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtusish, entire, somewhat revolute, canescent above and 
silvery beneath with a fine appressed pubescence, both faces 
also conspicuously punctate with large dots: heads large, com- 
monly 1 inch and more in diameter, usually subglobose, the 
flowers then quite concealing the bracts, these mostly little dif- - 
ferentiated from ordinary leaves and deflexed: calyx setulose- 
hairy and resinous-dotted, its short teeth hispidulous: corollas 
lavender-color. 
Common in the hill country of Napa, Sonoma and perhaps 
Lake counties, California, and by me formerly mistaken for 
M. Sheltonii (Man. p. 288). Itis copiously represented in my own 
_ herbarium, but there is no trace of it among the many and 
varied Monardella sheets of the U. S. Herb. Dag Vt Etib 
M. sUBsERRATA. Allied to A. villosa, about as large, more 
slender, the whole plant pale and glaucescent as well as pubes- 
cent, and leaves much less firm in texture, these an inch long 
including a rather long and slender petiole, ovate, obtusish, 
rather remotely and irregularly serrate, conspicuously white- 
veiny beneath, not at all so above, both faces rather shortly 
rough-pubescent: bracts of the involucre altogether inconspicu- 
ous, small and scarcely differentiated from the ordinary leaves, 
nevertheless erect, embracing the flower-cluster : calyx-tubegreen 
and almost glabrous, as also the teeth externally, but the latter 
Villous-hairy within: corolla apparently only pale a eee or 
lilac, the short tube somewhat hairy. 
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