MEUSSA LABIATE 551 



POGOGTNE 



7 MELISSA L. Sp. 592. 



Herbs with leafy stems broad dentate leaves and small white or 

 yellowish flowers in small axillary clusters. Calyx bilabiate, ob- 

 long-campanulate, 13-nerved, nearly naked in the throat : upper 

 lip flat, 3-toothed; the lower 2-parted. Corolla exserted, its tube 

 curved, enlarged above, naked within, the limb bilabiate ; upper 

 lip erect, emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, 

 connivent and ascending under the upper lip of the corolla: an- 

 thers 2-celled, the cells divaricate. 



M. OFFICINALIS L. Sp. 592. Pubescent perennial: stems rather stout, 

 erect or ascending, 12-30 inches high: leaves ovate, petioled, pinuately 

 veined, coarsely dentate or crenate-dentate, 1-2V inches long: flowers 

 several in the axillary clusters, short-pedicelled : calyx about 3 lines long, 

 the teeth of its lower lip slightly exceeding those of the upper: corolla 

 white, 5-7 lines long. In waste places : naturalized from Europe. 



8 POGOGYNE Benth. Lab. 441. 



Low annuals with mostly entire leaves and numerous small 

 flowers in dense or interrupted terminal bracted spikes: the bracts 

 usually hirsutely ciliate. Calyx deeply and unequally 5-cleft, 

 the teeth hirsutely ciliate, the two lower longest : the tube cam- 

 panulate or turbinate, mostly 15-nerved: the throat naked within. 

 Corolla straight, tubular-funnel form, with short lips : upper lip 

 erect, entire, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, the upper 

 pair shortest, all with anthers, or the upper pair sterile, ascend- 

 ing and above more or less approximate in pairs : anthers 2-celled, 

 the cells parallel and pointless. Style somewhat exserted, beard- 

 ed above. 



P. Douglasii Benth. 1. c. Stem commonly 2-6 inches high, simple, 

 or branched from the base: leaves oblauceolate to obovate, 9-15 lines long, 

 narrowed below to a petiole : flowers in approximate whorls, forming a 

 dense, terminal spike, often with a single accessory whorl below, or 

 sometimes several of the lower ax<ls with flowers : bracts linear, cuspidate, 

 their margins ciliate with bristly white hairs: calyx about 4 lines Ion/, 

 the lower teeth about twice as long as the tube, much longer and narrower 

 than the others, all bristly-ciliate: corolla 7-9 lines long, blue, the palate 

 white dotted with purple, bristly : nutlets smooth, often mottled, minutely 

 hispid at the apex. In low places that are covered with water in winter, 

 Jackson Co. Oregon to California. 



Tribe 3 Monardese Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii, 888. Antherifer- 

 ous stamens only 2, straight or commonly parallel-ascending. An- 

 thers with narrow usually oblong -linear cells , which are either wide- 

 ly separated on the upper and lower ends of a linear or filiform 

 connective which is usually longer than the filament and articulated 

 with it, or the lower cell wanting or deformed, or the two cells confluent 

 into one linear cell. 



9 AUDIBERTU Benth. Bot. Reg. t. 1469. 



Shrubs or herbs with mostly crenulate leaves and numerous 

 flowers in capitate-glomerate or verticilastrate terminal heads or 



