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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  Found 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Brannan, 
  at 
  Cisco, 
  Sierra 
  Nevada 
  mountains, 
  July 
  

   6th, 
  1870. 
  

  

  The 
  plant 
  occasionally 
  (in 
  robust 
  specimens) 
  is 
  doubly 
  branched 
  from 
  each 
  

   axil 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  pair 
  of 
  leaves 
  ; 
  leaves 
  l}'^ 
  inches 
  long 
  to 
  2, 
  and 
  ^ 
  an 
  inch 
  

   broad, 
  repand 
  subdentate. 
  Rarely 
  more 
  than 
  six 
  inches 
  in 
  height. 
  

  

  Hedeoma 
  ( 
  ? 
  ) 
  purpurea, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  Stem 
  about 
  1-2 
  feet 
  in 
  height, 
  much 
  branching 
  from 
  a 
  ligneous 
  base, 
  quad- 
  

   rangular 
  with 
  prominent, 
  rounded 
  or 
  obtuse 
  angles 
  and 
  sulcate 
  sides, 
  angles 
  

   somewhat 
  retrorsely 
  hoary-pubescent. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  lanceolate, 
  acuminate, 
  sharply 
  serrate, 
  subpubescent 
  above, 
  pubescent 
  

   beneath, 
  glandular 
  punctate, 
  the 
  sharpened 
  base 
  3-nerved 
  and 
  triplinerved 
  

   above, 
  margin 
  ciliate: 
  1-2 
  inches 
  in 
  length, 
  i^ 
  to 
  )^ 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  breadth 
  ; 
  peti- 
  

   ole 
  about 
  1-fifth 
  the 
  blade, 
  hirsute 
  ; 
  peduncles 
  axillary, 
  opposite, 
  length 
  variable, 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  petiole, 
  pedicels 
  subsessile 
  or 
  even 
  sessile. 
  3^^ 
  to 
  % 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  

   length, 
  subdivided 
  or 
  mostly 
  forked, 
  bracts 
  foliaceous 
  linear 
  lanceolate, 
  hispid 
  ; 
  

   bracteoles 
  setaceous, 
  former 
  2-4, 
  latter 
  2-5 
  ; 
  pedicels 
  fasciculate-corymbose, 
  20 
  

   to 
  30 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  or 
  flowers 
  40 
  to 
  60 
  in 
  a 
  whorl, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  calyx, 
  sub- 
  

   hispid 
  ; 
  calyx 
  tubular, 
  prismatic, 
  not 
  gibbous 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  hispid 
  and 
  glandular, 
  

   bilabiate, 
  13-nerved 
  (rarely 
  less 
  or 
  more), 
  upper 
  lip 
  3-toothed, 
  lower 
  2-toothed 
  

   shorter, 
  subulate 
  from 
  a 
  triangular 
  base, 
  teeth 
  hispid, 
  throat 
  naked 
  ; 
  corolla 
  

   bilabiate, 
  upper 
  lip 
  flat, 
  rather 
  straight, 
  2-toothed 
  or 
  sublobed 
  ; 
  lower 
  lip 
  3- 
  

   lobed, 
  flat, 
  lance-linear 
  about 
  equal, 
  spreading, 
  hirsute 
  and 
  glandular 
  on 
  the 
  

   back, 
  throat 
  and 
  middle 
  lobe 
  somewhat 
  bearded 
  or 
  villous, 
  genitals 
  subexsert, 
  

   style 
  sub-2-lobed, 
  equal, 
  stigmas 
  sub-glabrous 
  with 
  scarcely 
  a 
  few 
  hairs 
  ; 
  stamens, 
  

   upper 
  abortive 
  pair 
  often 
  about 
  equal, 
  lower 
  filaments 
  always 
  longest, 
  being 
  

   inserted 
  lower, 
  incurved 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  Flowers 
  purple 
  blue 
  ; 
  calyx 
  often 
  colored. 
  

  

  Found 
  at 
  Webb's 
  landing, 
  on 
  an 
  island 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Joaquin 
  River, 
  fall 
  of 
  

   1872. 
  A 
  stout 
  or 
  robust 
  species, 
  much 
  branched 
  ; 
  with 
  the 
  usual 
  strong 
  odor 
  

   and 
  carminative 
  properties 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  Pennyroyal 
  ; 
  perhaps 
  from 
  a 
  peren- 
  

   nial 
  root 
  ; 
  seeds 
  ovate, 
  truncate 
  at 
  the 
  hilum 
  ; 
  surface 
  minutely 
  thimble-pitted 
  

   or 
  superficially 
  scrobiculate. 
  

  

  This 
  plant, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  said, 
  cannot 
  belong 
  to 
  Hedeoma, 
  for 
  the 
  throat 
  of 
  the 
  

   calyx 
  is 
  not 
  bearded. 
  Nor 
  can 
  it 
  be 
  a 
  Pogogijne, 
  for 
  that 
  has 
  the 
  regular 
  /owr- 
  

   starnened 
  character, 
  and 
  the 
  tube 
  of 
  the 
  corolla 
  is 
  naked 
  inside. 
  My 
  own 
  judg- 
  

   ment 
  is, 
  that 
  the 
  genus 
  Hedeoma 
  should 
  be 
  so 
  reconstructed 
  as 
  to 
  receive 
  this 
  

   and 
  some 
  others 
  ; 
  I 
  therefore 
  place 
  it 
  provisionally 
  here, 
  as 
  indicated. 
  It 
  can- 
  

   not 
  be 
  a 
  Keithia, 
  for 
  although 
  that 
  has 
  a 
  naked 
  throat 
  in 
  some 
  species, 
  it 
  has 
  

   not 
  even 
  a 
  vestige 
  of 
  upper 
  or 
  posterior 
  abortive 
  stamens, 
  as 
  this 
  has. 
  Nor 
  

   can 
  it 
  belong 
  to 
  Gardoquia, 
  for 
  similar 
  reasons. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  new 
  genus 
  Poliomintha, 
  Gray., 
  the 
  calyx 
  still 
  has 
  the 
  villous 
  ring 
  — 
  

   this, 
  none 
  ; 
  that, 
  like 
  this 
  plant, 
  has 
  a 
  somewhat 
  pilose 
  throat 
  of 
  the 
  corolla, 
  

   but 
  the 
  stamens 
  are 
  not 
  incurved 
  — 
  cells 
  are 
  spreading, 
  and 
  the 
  sterile 
  pair 
  very 
  

   short 
  — 
  seeds 
  smooth, 
  etc. 
  There 
  are 
  often 
  seen 
  fragments 
  of 
  abortive 
  anthers 
  

   on 
  the 
  short 
  pair 
  of 
  anthers 
  of 
  this 
  plant. 
  

  

  