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grounds as these, Mr, Bentliam erected tlie principal Cali- 

 fornian Salvias into a genus Audihertku Its best mark is 

 the more irregular and, as Asa Gray denominated it, "more 

 spatliaceous " calyx- It was not, however, this character 

 which had most weight witli Mr, Bentham; for two Cali- 

 fornian species, with tlie same kind of calyx, he left in Salvuu 



The genus seems wholly indefensible; but were this other- 

 wise, it would need a new name; because it is the second of two 

 genera to which Mr. Bentham assigned the name Audihertiiu 

 The first has been merged in Mentha^ it maybe permanently, 

 or it may be temporarily. 



To my statement that the x^udibertias of the Californian 

 flora are Salvias in habit, as well as floral structure, there is 

 one exception. I have always felt that the Audlbertia poJy- 

 sfachya was not congeneric with the other shrubs with which 

 it has been associated. In habit it is quite peculiar. No Salvia 

 has such an inflorescence, or such a corolla. Its characters, 

 as a genus^ will be given later. I here propose for it the name 



PiAMONA POLYSTACHYA. Audibcvfia polyskickya, Benth. 

 Lab, 414 (1836); DC. Prodr. xii. 360. 



For most of the species referable to Salvia new names 

 are needed, seeing all those imposed by Bentham are com- 

 mon adjectives already preoccupied in that large genus. 



Salvia carnosa. Dough in Bot. Keg. xvii. t. 1469 (1831), 

 Audihevtia incana, Benth. 1. c. This is the plant wliich Mr. 

 Bentham had as type of his Andiheriia number two. In 

 flower and foliage it is less like Salvias in general tJian most 

 of its West American kindred; but its discoverer, Douglas, it 

 appears, had no thought of it as representing a new generic 

 type. 



Salvia Mohavensis. Audihcriia capiMa, Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 387 (1868). Related to tlie preceding; perhaps 

 local on the sutnraits of the Providence Mountains, which 

 rise out of the midst of the Mohave Desert. 



[Issued July 22, 1892.] 



