122 ERYTHEA. 



terminal, interruptedj tlie bracts oyate-lanceolate : calyx with 

 spreading mucronnlate teeth or lobes: corolla small, white, 

 with abundant red dots and lines; upper lip ascending, three- 

 fourths the length of the lower, deeply concave and arched, 

 concealing the stamens, lateral lobes of lower lip reflexed, 

 half as large as the spreading concave middle lobe. 



Brackish marshes about the bays of San Francisco and 

 Suisun. 



■ Stachys stricta. Perennial, rather slender, 2 to 4 feet 

 high, only sparingly Yillous-hirsute, almost oily to the touch 

 by abundant small resinous glands beneath the pubescence: 

 leaves thinnish, ovate-lanceolate, ascending or suberect on 

 their short petioles : bracts of the interrupted spike deltoid- 

 ovate: calyx-teeth erect, or even somewhat connivent around 

 the tube of the corolla: flowers small, white; upper lip of 

 corolla short, erect, suborbicular, only slightly concave, not 

 concealing the stamens, glandular-hairy externally; lower 

 lip elongated and somewhat boat-shaped, the lateral lobes 

 reduced to mere teeth and strongly deflexed. 



Wet meadows in Knight's Valley, Sonoma County, Califor- 

 nia, June, 1894. Both this and the preceding are like 5'. 

 aliens in that they are coarse large plants of swampy places; 

 but they are very distinct from that, and from each other, in 

 aspect, pubescence, and especially in form of corolla, the 

 characters of which have been neglected by authors. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF LOS ANGELES 



COUNTY AND CATALINA ISLAND.-II. 



By Alfred James McClatchie. 



Eqiiisetiim Mexicanum, Milde. A plant referred to this 

 species by Prof. Underwood is quite abundant in the Arroyo 

 Seco near Pasadena and in some of the canons of Catalina 

 Island. It is tall (2 to 5 feet high), weak, and inclined to 

 branch considerably. The sterile stems and branches 

 usually taper to a very slender tip. 



