550 LABIAT 2 MONARDELLA 
MICROMERIA 
long as the internodes, all petioled : heads often peduncled, 6-8 lines high: 
bracts foliaceous, spreading or reflexed, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes 
acuminate from an orbicular base: calyx about 5 lines long, pubescent; 
its triangular-subulate teeth ciliate: corolla purple to white; its pubescent 
tube almost filiform, hardly at all eee | upward, not longer than the 
calyx ; its linear lobes nearly as long as the tube. On gravelly banks and 
bars of the Rogue river, Oregon. 
M. purpurea. Verv smooth and shining except the inflorescence: 
whole herbage usually reddish-purple: stems slender, 3-8 inches high, 
simple, from a woody perennial base: leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 
4-12 lines long, mostly longer than the internodes, all petioled, very entire 
and obtuse: heads broad and rather loose, 8-10 lines high, often peduncl- 
ed: bracts broadly ovate to oblong, never reflexed, tinged with purple, 
villous-ciliate, 4-6 lines long: calyx about 5 lines long, glabrous; its subu- 
late teeth hirsute: corolla about 10 lines long; its pubescent tube very 
slightly enlarged upward, much longer than the calyx the linear lobes 
about 4 lines long. In dry rocky places, eastern base of the Coast Moun- 
tains, southwestern Oregon. . 
M. odoratissima Benth. Lab. 332. Somewhat cinereous with a min- 
ute scurfy puberulence: stems often stoutish’ and much branched, 4-10 
inches long, very numerous from a perennial woody base, decumbent or 
ascending: leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subsessile, 4-12 lines 
long, mostly longer than the internodes, acute at both ends: heads 6-10 
lines high: bracts broadly ovate, very obtuse, 4-6 lines long: calyx about 
5 lines long, puberulent. its triangular acute teeth softly villous: corolla 
rose-color, its pubescent tube slightly dilated upward, a line or more lon- 
ger than the calyx, lobes oblong-linear, 3-4 lines long. In rocky ravines, 
eastern Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
M. discolor Greene Pitt. ii, 24. ‘‘ Rigidly suffrutescent, diffuse, a 
span high: leaves small, (14-3 inch long), ovate-lanceolate, entire, short- 
petioled, green and nearly glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, 
scarcely punctate, the veins prominent beneath: heads small, bracts few, 
ovate or Abia obtuse, of firm texture, tomentose-canescent, not colored, 
arallel-nerved : calyx-teeth short, acutish, woolly-hairy withvut: corollas 
ight purple. ”’ 
‘* Gravelly banks of the Yakima River near Clealum Washington. ”’ 
6 MICROMERIA Benth, in Bot. Reg. under n. 1282. 
Shrubs or herbs with entire or merely dentate leaves and small 
flowers in bracted spikes, or few in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 
tubular, 13-15-nerved, 5-toothed, the teeth subequal or somewhat 
bilabiate. Corolla short, its straight tube usually shorter or 
hardly longer than the calyx; the limb bilabiate ; upper lip erect 
entire or emarginate, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
arcuate, shorter than the corolla, the anterior pair longest: an- 
thers 2-celled. Style beardless. 
M. Douglasii Benth. Lab. 372. Minutely pubescent: stems slender, 
simple, trailing, 6-20 inches long: leaves round-ovate, crenate, 6-12 lines 
long, on petioles 2-3 lines long: flowers usually solitary in the axils of the 
leaves in the middle of the stem, on filiform peduncles 4-6 lines long; 
calyx about 4 lines long, its acute triangular teeth less than a line ons . 
corolla about 6lines long, white, narrow-funnelform, with slender tu 
about equalling the calyx, ampliate throat and short rounded lobes. 
Common in wooded districts, Brit. Columbia to California. 
