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MONARDELLA 
In wet places, throughout most of North America. 
L. rubellus Moench Meth. Suppl. 146. Glabrous or minutely puberu- 
lent: stems erect or ascending, simple, or at length freely branched, !-3 feet 
high: leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, or narrower, acuminate at the 
apex, sharply dentate, narrowed or cuneate at base. 2-5 inches long, 6-18 
lines wide, usually tapering into conspicuous petioles: bracts minute, acute 
or acuminate: calyx-teeth triangular-subulate, herbaceous, one-half as. 
long as the tube or more: corolla longer than. tie calyx: rudimentary 
ponieror filaments oval or oblong: nutlets much shorter than the calyx. 
n wet soil, western Oregon and Washington to New York and Florida. 
L. Americanus Muhl, Bart. Fl. Phil. Prodr. 15. ZL. sinuatus - Ell. 
Puberulent or glabrous, perennial by suckers: stems stiff, erect, simple or 
branched, 1-2 feet high: leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate in outline, 
incised, pinnatifid or the uppermost merely serrate, acute at the apex 2-4 
inches long, petioled : bracts subulate, the outer ones sometimes exceeding 
the calyx: teeth of the calyx triangular-subulate, cuspidate, rigid: corolla 
little exceeding the calyx: rudimentary filaments thickened at their tips; 
nutlets much shorter then the calyx. In wet soil, Brit. Columbia to Cali- 
fornia and across the continent. 
L. lucidus Turcz. Benth in DC. Prodr. xii, 178. Pubescent or glab- 
rate: stems usually stout, erect, strict, leafy, simple, or sometimes branch- 
ed, 1-3 feet high: leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, narrowed or 
rounded at base, sessile or very short-petioled, 2-6 inches long, 4-12 lines 
wide, sharply serrate with acute ascending teeth : bracts ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate-subulate, the outer ones often as long as the flowers: calyx- 
teeth 5, subulate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube: corolla little longer 
than the calyx: rudimentary filaments slender, thickened at the tips: 
nutlets much shorter than the calyx. In wet soil, eastern Washington to 
California and Minnesota. 
5 MONARDELLA Benth. Lab. 331. 
Low annual or perennial herbaceous or suffrutescent plants 
with mostly entire leaves and small red purple or white flowers 
in terminal heads subtended by broad often membranaceous and 
colored bracts. Calyx tubular, often elongated, 10-13-nerved, 5- 
toothed : the teeth short, nearly equal, straight; the throat naked 
within. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx: the throat glabrous 
within: the limb somewhat bilabiate, the upper lip two-cleft, the 
lower 3-cleft, and the lobes all oblong or linear, flat and nearly 
equal. Stamens 4, more or less unequal, or the lower ones longer, 
straight, divergent and exserted. Anthers with two parallel cells 
becoming divergent or divaricate. Style very shortly two-cleft. 
M. villosa Benth. Lab. 332. Somewhat canescent: stems slender, 6-18 
inches high, branching from a perennial woody base, stiff and erect or as- 
cending: leaves rather distant, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, entire, 
6-12 lines long, all short-petioled : heads sessile, 6-10 lines high, very dense ; 
bracts broadly ovate to elliptical, 6-8 lines long, 7-9-nerved, villous-ciliate : 
tinged with purple: calyx 4-6 lines long, pubescent, its short subulate teeth 
villous: corolla purple to white, pubescent, the tube gradually enlarged 
from the base and at length a line or more longer than the calyx; the ob- 
long lobes 2-3 lines long. On dry ridges, southwestern Oregon to California. 
_M. reflexa. Moreorless cinereous with a minute scurfy puberulence : 
stems slender, 6-14 inches high. from a woody perennial base, simple, or 
more or less branched: leaves ovate to lanceolate, 6-12 lines long, not as 
